Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Brainner vs ClearCo (ClearCompany)
Brainner
Brainner is an AI screening layer for applicant tracking systems that scores and ranks applicants against recruiter-weighted criteria with per-criterion justifications, and flags suspected fake applicants using third-party identity and fraud data.
Substantial gaps
Screening
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.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
Brainner and ClearCo (ClearCompany) tie at 46.
Brainner (Screening) and ClearCo (ClearCompany) (ATS-integrated) tie at 46 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. Brainner leads 2 of the 7 criteria and ClearCo (ClearCompany) 4, with 1 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Brainner 42, ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 72% of the weighted advantage Brainner holds across the 2 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Brainner2
- ClearCo (ClearCompany)4
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency42 vs 28
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, ClearCo (ClearCompany) under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Brainner | ClearCo (ClearCompany) |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2004 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight38% of the movement so far
Brainner42ClearCo (ClearCompany)282.5 weighted points to Brainner
- 2
Human Oversight Design
12% weight62% of the movement so far
Brainner50ClearCo (ClearCompany)631.6 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
- 3
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight76% of the movement so far
Brainner45ClearCo (ClearCompany)371.0 weighted points to Brainner
- 4
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight88% of the movement so far
Brainner52ClearCo (ClearCompany)560.8 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
- 5
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight98% of the movement so far
Brainner53ClearCo (ClearCompany)570.6 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
- 6
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Brainner58ClearCo (ClearCompany)600.2 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +0.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that +0.4.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus ClearCo (ClearCompany), coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 56 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 28 | +14 | +2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 57 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 63 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 37 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46F | 46F | - | +0.4 |
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 | Brainner | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 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% | 6 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Brainner has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 4 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 Brainner and ClearCo (ClearCompany) sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 75 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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