Quick answer
Handshake AI is a useful route to check when you want explicit opening criteria and a straightforward company-interest entry. Compare its published full-time employee and operating-age requirements with your company profile, then prepare the first-step answers separately from the archive detail.
Read the two criteria literally
The license page states 20 or more full-time employees and at least three years in operation. Record company age and available archive history separately.
| Measure | What to prepare | Keep separate |
|---|---|---|
| Full-time employees | Current count using that definition | Contractors and total associated people |
| Years in operation | When the business began operating | Oldest retained message or file |
| Record collection | System, category and known dates | Company age |
Sources: Handshake
Build the opening preparation card
The observed opening asks for first and last name, email, company and country; phone and company website are optional. Prepare those answers once. Keep your role and the company description nearby for a later conversation, without claiming they were required on this inspected screen. The October 12 inspection covered the public opening; later questions were not entered.
Sources: Handshake
Work through a fictional company
Imagine a service business with 26 full-time employees, nine years of operation and eighteen months of retained chat. Its employee and operating-age answers align with the two published criteria. The chat history is still eighteen months. Nothing in that comparison establishes whether the particular collection will be accepted.
Its packet should therefore contain three separate lines: company operating since 2017, current full-time team 26, and chat archive observed from April 2025. If accounting and job records go further back, list those dates independently. This gives the next reviewer a coherent account instead of one ambiguous number called history.
Decide what to ask before detailed preparation
Prepare questions that could change the next step. Ask whether the available dates and record categories meet the current opportunity, which collection the team wants to assess first, and what additional company facts will be useful. If your team count has changed recently, describe the current count and ask which measurement date applies.
A source mention of a system is a useful starting point, not an instruction to export everything in that account. Scope the intended collection before spending time consolidating unrelated records.
- Which specific records and dates would the team like to evaluate?
- How should a recently changed team count be reported?
- What information follows the public opening step?
Choose alternatives for a real difference
Appen is worth comparing if your strongest description is a specific operational workflow and you want to investigate an individually scoped inquiry. micro1 offers another route with explicit size and operational-maturity language. The comparison is about what must be clarified and prepared, rather than an assumed acceptance rate.
Add Handshake to your shortlist with the two published criteria as reasons and archive suitability as an open question. That is a more useful conclusion than treating a promotional estimate as your company’s offer.
Questions about this comparison
Does three years in operation mean three years of every system?
No. Company age and the records available in each system are separate answers.
Must I prepare an export for the public opening?
The inspected opening asks for person and company details. Prepare a concise inventory for follow-up.
Sources
- Data Partnerships | Handshake AI (license / interest form page)Handshake · Checked 2026-10-10
- Appen program pageAppen · Checked 2026-10-06
- Monetize your company's operational data (micro1)micro1 · Checked 2026-10-12