§ The result
ADP takes the total, ClearCo (ClearCompany) takes more of the criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, ADP and ClearCo (ClearCompany) finish 2 points apart, 48 to 46, as two ATS-integrated entries. ClearCo (ClearCompany) leads more of the criteria than ADP — 4 to 2 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which ADP leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to ADP. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (ADP 46, ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 77% of the weighted advantage ADP holds across the 2 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
ADP
ADP is an enterprise human capital management and payroll provider whose recruiting suite uses AI to parse, rank, and match job applicants via its Candidate Relevancy tool, ADP Assist generative-AI assistant/job-description generator, and skills intelligence.
Vendor profile
ClearCo (ClearCompany)
ClearCo (formerly ClearCompany) is a unified talent-management suite built around an applicant tracking system. Its AI Talent Match scores and ranks new applicants against a requisition's skills and job titles, and its Sourcing Agent runs AI-conducted phone screening calls and returns applicants ranked by score.
§ The record
ADP and ClearCo (ClearCompany) are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | ADP | ClearCo (ClearCompany) |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1949 | 2004 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ADP 46 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28
3.2 weighted points to ADP
12% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ADP 55 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63
1.0 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ADP 45 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37
1.0 weighted points to ADP
20% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ADP 53 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56
0.6 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ADP 28 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 30
0.3 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ADP 58 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 60
0.2 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +2.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +2.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ADP minus ClearCo (ClearCompany).
| Category | Weight | ADP | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 53 | 56 | -3 | -0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 46 | 28 | +18 | +3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 57 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 63 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 37 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 46 (F) | +2 | +2.2 |
§ 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 | ADP | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
ADP has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; ClearCo (ClearCompany) has 38 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for ClearCo (ClearCompany) sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for ADP, across 2 distinct source domains, and 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ADP last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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