Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs Zappyhire
Handshake
Handshake is an early-career recruiting network whose employer tools use AI to rank applicants against employer-set criteria, find and message matching students and graduates, and target job promotions.
Substantial gaps
Screening
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
Handshake leads Zappyhire on all 7 criteria.
Handshake finishes 16 points clear of Zappyhire inside the Screening cohort under rubric v1.0: 50 against 34. Handshake leads every one of the 7 criteria, Zappyhire none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Handshake 30 to Zappyhire 25. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Handshake 52, Zappyhire 28, 18% weight), is only 28% of the weighted advantage Handshake builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake7
- Zappyhire0
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency52 vs 28
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake and Zappyhire are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only Zappyhire is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2014 | 2018 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight28% of the movement so far
Handshake52Zappyhire284.3 weighted points to Handshake
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight51% of the movement so far
Handshake48Zappyhire303.6 weighted points to Handshake
- 3
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight67% of the movement so far
Handshake48Zappyhire282.4 weighted points to Handshake
- 4
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight81% of the movement so far
Handshake57Zappyhire422.3 weighted points to Handshake
- 5
Customer Documentation
8% weight89% of the movement so far
Handshake60Zappyhire451.2 weighted points to Handshake
- 6
Human Oversight Design
12% weight95% of the movement so far
Handshake58Zappyhire501.0 weighted points to Handshake
- 7
FRIA Support
15% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake30Zappyhire250.8 weighted points to Handshake
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +15.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +15.5.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Zappyhire, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 30 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 28 | +24 | +4.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 42 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 28 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 34F | +16 | +15.5 |
Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Handshake | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 12 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Handshake has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Handshake and Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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