§ The result
1 point separates ClearCo (ClearCompany) and Cangrade.
ClearCo (ClearCompany) (ATS-integrated) edges Cangrade (Assessment) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 46 to 45. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of ClearCo (ClearCompany), with 1 level: ClearCo (ClearCompany) is ahead on Human Oversight Design and Cangrade on Bias Audit Transparency. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing are the same criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, and Cangrade holds it (Cangrade 35, ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28, 18% weight), worth 89% of the weighted advantage Cangrade builds across the 2 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Cangrade
Cangrade is a predictive pre-hire assessment and screening platform that scores candidates against customer-specific success models built from roughly 50 psychometric traits, with add-on modules for resume screening, structured and video interviews, interview scheduling, and reference checking.
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
Cangrade is filed under Assessment AI, ClearCo (ClearCompany) under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Scheduling.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Cangrade is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cangrade | ClearCo (ClearCompany) |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2004 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cangrade 35 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28
1.3 weighted points to Cangrade
12% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cangrade 56 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63
0.8 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cangrade 52 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56
0.8 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cangrade 32 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37
0.6 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cangrade 54 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 57
0.4 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cangrade 62 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 60
0.2 weighted points to Cangrade
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -1.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -1.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cangrade minus ClearCo (ClearCompany).
| Category | Weight | Cangrade | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 56 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 28 | +7 | +1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 57 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 63 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 37 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 46 (F) | -1 | -1.3 |
§ 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 | Cangrade | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 3 | — | 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 | 2 | 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% | 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% | 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% | 20 | 10 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Cangrade has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 10 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 Cangrade and ClearCo (ClearCompany) sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 27 for Cangrade, across 3 distinct source domains, and 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cangrade last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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