§ The result
ClearCo (ClearCompany) leads Brazen by 8 points.
Under rubric v1.0, ClearCo (ClearCompany), filed under ATS-integrated, finishes on 46 and Brazen, filed under Screening, on 38, 8 points apart. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of ClearCo (ClearCompany): ClearCo (ClearCompany) is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Brazen on Bias Audit Transparency. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Human Oversight Design (Brazen 46, ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Brazen 40, ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56), the second being 39% of the weighted advantage ClearCo (ClearCompany) holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Brazen
Brazen is a recruiting events platform (acquired by Radancy in 2023) that runs virtual and in-person hiring events with a recruiting chatbot, configurable knockout pre-screening, resume filtering, built-in candidate rankings/recommendations, and 1:1 text, audio, and video chats.
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
Brazen is filed under Screening AI, ClearCo (ClearCompany) under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Brazen is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brazen | ClearCo (ClearCompany) |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2007 | 2004 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brazen 40 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56
3.2 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
12% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brazen 46 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63
2.0 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brazen 45 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 57
1.8 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brazen 25 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 30
0.8 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brazen 55 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 60
0.4 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
18% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brazen 30 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28
0.4 weighted points to Brazen
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brazen 38 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37
0.1 weighted points to Brazen
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -7.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -8 beside that -7.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brazen minus ClearCo (ClearCompany).
| Category | Weight | Brazen | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 56 | -16 | -3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 57 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 63 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 37 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 46 (F) | -8 | -7.7 |
§ 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 | Brazen | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 0 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 6 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Brazen has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 7 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 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Brazen, across 1 distinct source domain, and 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brazen last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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