§ The result
Checkr leads ClearCo (ClearCompany) on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Checkr, filed under Screening, finishes on 54 and ClearCo (ClearCompany), filed under ATS-integrated, on 46, 8 points apart. Checkr takes all 7 criteria from ClearCo (ClearCompany) without a 20-point raw gap on any of them; the closest is FRIA Support, Checkr 32 to ClearCo (ClearCompany) 30. The advantage Checkr holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Checkr 70, ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 37% of the weighted points Checkr gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Checkr
Checkr is an FCRA-regulated background screening platform that uses machine learning to parse, classify and standardize criminal, employment, education and motor-vehicle records, and to route them through customer-configured adjudication rulesets that flag candidates as eligible, review or escalated for employment decisions.
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
Checkr is filed under Screening AI, ClearCo (ClearCompany) under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Checkr | ClearCo (ClearCompany) |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 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
Checkr 70 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56
2.8 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Checkr 50 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37
1.6 weighted points to Checkr
18% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Checkr 35 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28
1.3 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Checkr 62 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 57
0.8 weighted points to Checkr
8% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Checkr 68 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 60
0.6 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Checkr 66 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63
0.4 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Checkr 32 · ClearCo (ClearCompany) 30
0.3 weighted points to Checkr
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 7.7 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 Checkr minus ClearCo (ClearCompany).
| Category | Weight | Checkr | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 56 | +14 | +2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 28 | +7 | +1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 57 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 63 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 37 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 60 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (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 | Checkr | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 2 | 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% | 4 | 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% | 5 | 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% | 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% | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Checkr has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Checkr, across 2 distinct source domains, and 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Checkr last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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