§ The result
ClearCo (ClearCompany) and Darwinbox tie at 46.
ClearCo (ClearCompany) and Darwinbox, both in the ATS-integrated cohort, tie at 46 under rubric v1.0 by different routes through the criteria. ClearCo (ClearCompany) leads 3 of the 7 criteria and Darwinbox 2, with 2 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. Human Oversight Design is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63, Darwinbox 55 — and at a 12% weight it carries 67% of the weighted advantage ClearCo (ClearCompany) holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Darwinbox
Darwinbox is an enterprise HCM suite whose recruitment module uses Darwinbox Sense AI (now sold inside its Cortex agent platform) to parse resumes, stack-rank and recommend candidates with stated fit reasoning, run screening and shortlisting agents, and give candidates an assistant for job matching, interview details and FAQs.
§ The record
ClearCo (ClearCompany) and Darwinbox are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Darwinbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2004 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63 · Darwinbox 55
1.0 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56 · Darwinbox 60
0.8 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37 · Darwinbox 35
0.2 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 60 · Darwinbox 57
0.2 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 57 · Darwinbox 58
0.1 weighted points to Darwinbox
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +0.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 2.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that +0.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ClearCo (ClearCompany) minus Darwinbox.
| Category | Weight | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Darwinbox | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 60 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 28 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 58 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 55 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 35 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 57 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 46 (F) | - | +0.5 |
§ 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 | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Darwinbox | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 24 | 7 | 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; Darwinbox has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 69 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains, and 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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