Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
ClearCo (ClearCompany) vs Darwinbox
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.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
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.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
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.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- ClearCo (ClearCompany)3
- Darwinbox2
- Level2
- Widest raw gap
- Human Oversight Design63 vs 55
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Human Oversight Design12% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
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
| 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.
- 1
Human Oversight Design
12% weight40% of the movement so far
ClearCo (ClearCompany)63Darwinbox551.0 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight74% of the movement so far
ClearCo (ClearCompany)56Darwinbox600.8 weighted points to Darwinbox
- 3
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight84% of the movement so far
ClearCo (ClearCompany)37Darwinbox350.2 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
- 4
Customer Documentation
8% weight94% of the movement so far
ClearCo (ClearCompany)60Darwinbox570.2 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
- 5
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight100% of the movement so far
ClearCo (ClearCompany)57Darwinbox580.1 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, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| 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% | 46F | 46F | - | +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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