§ The result
Criteria leads ClearCo (ClearCompany) by 7 points.
Criteria scores 53 and ClearCo (ClearCompany) 46 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Criteria leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while ClearCo (ClearCompany) leads 1, including Human Oversight Design, and 1 is level. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28, Criteria 48) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 47% of the weighted advantage Criteria holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
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.
Vendor profile
Criteria
Criteria is a pre-employment assessment platform offering scientifically validated cognitive aptitude, personality, emotional-intelligence and skills tests, plus structured and AI-assisted interview tools, used to evaluate and rank job candidates.
§ The record
ClearCo (ClearCompany) is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Criteria under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Criteria is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Criteria |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2006 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28 · Criteria 48
3.6 weighted points to Criteria
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56 · Criteria 68
2.4 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63 · Criteria 56
0.8 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 57 · Criteria 62
0.8 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37 · Criteria 42
0.6 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 30 · Criteria 32
0.3 weighted points to Criteria
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -6.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -6.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ClearCo (ClearCompany) minus Criteria.
| Category | Weight | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Criteria | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 68 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 48 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 62 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 56 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 42 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 53 (F) | -7 | -6.8 |
§ 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 | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Criteria | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 14 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
ClearCo (ClearCompany) has 38 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 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 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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