§ The result
Ashby leads ClearCo (ClearCompany) by 10 points.
Both filed under ATS-integrated, Ashby and ClearCo (ClearCompany) come out 56 and 46 under rubric v1.0, 10 points in favour of Ashby. Ashby leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while ClearCo (ClearCompany) leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Ashby 62, ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 59% of the weighted advantage Ashby holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Ashby
Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting platform combining applicant tracking, CRM/sourcing, scheduling, and analytics, with embedded AI features including resume-to-criteria evaluation, AI-assisted application review, sourcing outreach, and scheduling agents.
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
Ashby and ClearCo (ClearCompany) are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 3 secondary categories: Sourcing, Scheduling and Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Ashby | ClearCo (ClearCompany) |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2004 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ashby 62 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28
6.1 weighted points to Ashby
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ashby 42 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 30
1.8 weighted points to Ashby
20% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ashby 63 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56
1.4 weighted points to Ashby
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ashby 42 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37
0.6 weighted points to Ashby
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ashby 63 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 60
0.2 weighted points to Ashby
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ashby 58 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 57
0.1 weighted points to Ashby
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ashby 62 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63
0.1 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +10.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ashby minus ClearCo (ClearCompany).
| Category | Weight | Ashby | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 63 | 56 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 62 | 28 | +34 | +6.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 30 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 57 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 63 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 37 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 60 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 46 (F) | +10 | +10.2 |
§ 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 | Ashby | 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 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% | 2 | 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% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Ashby has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 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 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Ashby, across 1 distinct source domain, and 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ashby last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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