§ The result
Eightfold AI leads ClearCo (ClearCompany) by 18 points.
Eightfold AI finishes 18 points clear of ClearCo (ClearCompany) under rubric v1.0 — 64 (D) against 46 (F) — across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of Eightfold AI, with 1 level: Eightfold AI is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and ClearCo (ClearCompany) on Human Oversight Design. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28, Eightfold AI 85) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 56% of the weighted advantage Eightfold AI 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
Eightfold AI
Talent intelligence platform offering candidate matching, internal mobility, and career-site personalization on top of a deep-learning talent graph.
§ The record
ClearCo (ClearCompany) is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Eightfold AI under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
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 | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Eightfold AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28 · Eightfold AI 85
10.3 weighted points to Eightfold AI
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56 · Eightfold AI 75
3.8 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 30 · Eightfold AI 45
2.3 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37 · Eightfold AI 50
1.6 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 57 · Eightfold AI 60
0.4 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63 · Eightfold AI 60
0.4 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -18.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -18 beside that -18.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ClearCo (ClearCompany) minus Eightfold AI.
| Category | Weight | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Eightfold AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 75 | -19 | -3.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 85 | -57 | -10.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 60 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 60 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 50 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 64 (D) | -18 | -18.0 |
§ 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) | Eightfold AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
ClearCo (ClearCompany) has 38 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Eightfold AI has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for ClearCo (ClearCompany) and Eightfold AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains, and 15 for Eightfold AI, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Eightfold AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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