§ The result
ClearCo (ClearCompany) leads Ceipal by 11 points.
Rubric v1.0 scores the ATS-integrated entries ClearCo (ClearCompany) and Ceipal at 46 and 35, a gap of 11 points. Ceipal takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 6 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Ceipal 30, ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56 — and at a 20% weight it carries 45% of the weighted advantage ClearCo (ClearCompany) holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Ceipal
AI-powered applicant tracking and workforce-management platform for staffing firms that sources, matches, and ranks candidates on a 1-to-100 scale against job requirements.
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
Ceipal and ClearCo (ClearCompany) are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only ClearCo (ClearCompany) is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Ceipal | ClearCo (ClearCompany) |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2004 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ceipal 30 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56
5.2 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
12% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63
2.0 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 57
1.6 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
18% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ceipal 20 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28
1.4 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ceipal 25 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 30
0.8 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 60
0.6 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ceipal 38 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37
0.1 weighted points to Ceipal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -11.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -11.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus ClearCo (ClearCompany).
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 56 | -26 | -5.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 28 | -8 | -1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 57 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 63 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 37 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 60 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 46 (F) | -11 | -11.5 |
§ 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 | Ceipal | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 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% | 2 | 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% | 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% | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Ceipal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 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 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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