§ The result
2 points separate Employment Hero and ClearCo (ClearCompany).
Employment Hero (Screening) edges ClearCo (ClearCompany) (ATS-integrated) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 48 to 46. Employment Hero leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Post-Market Monitoring, while ClearCo (ClearCompany) leads 3, including Article 11 Technical Documentation. One criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, is both the widest raw gap (ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37, Employment Hero 50) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 12% weight it makes up 48% of the weighted advantage Employment Hero holds across the 4 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
Employment Hero
SmartMatch is Employment Hero's AI candidate-matching engine. Since March 2026 it has been surfaced through Find Talent and ATS applicant scoring, where it ranks job seekers and applicants against employer criteria and feeds a Recruitment Agent that auto-shortlists candidates and runs AI video and phone screening interviews.
§ The record
ClearCo (ClearCompany) is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Employment Hero under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Employment Hero is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Employment Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 2004 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37 · Employment Hero 50
1.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
18% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28 · Employment Hero 35
1.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
20% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56 · Employment Hero 50
1.2 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 30 · Employment Hero 32
0.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 60 · Employment Hero 62
0.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 57 · Employment Hero 56
0.1 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63 · Employment Hero 62
0.1 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -1.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -2 beside that -1.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ClearCo (ClearCompany) minus Employment Hero.
| Category | Weight | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Employment Hero | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 50 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 35 | -7 | -1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 56 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 62 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 50 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 48 (F) | -2 | -1.8 |
§ 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) | Employment Hero | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 6 | 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 | 7 | 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 | 5 | 0 | 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 | 31 | 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; Employment Hero has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 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 73 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains, and 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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