Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
ClearCo (ClearCompany) vs Factorial
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
Factorial
Factorial is a Barcelona-based all-in-one HR, finance and IT platform for small and mid-sized businesses. Its applicant tracking system has optional AI matching, which shows a percentage fit for applicants it recommends interviewing, plus CV summaries, AI-written job posts and AI Calls, where a voice agent phone-screens candidates and gives each a match label that can move them to the next stage automatically.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
ClearCo (ClearCompany) and Factorial tie at 46.
ClearCo (ClearCompany) and Factorial tie at 46 under rubric v1.0 inside the ATS-integrated cohort, arriving there from different criteria. ClearCo (ClearCompany) leads 3 of the 7 criteria and Factorial 2, with 2 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. One criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, is both the widest raw gap (ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37, Factorial 48) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 12% weight it makes up 64% of the weighted advantage Factorial holds across the 2 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- ClearCo (ClearCompany)3
- Factorial2
- Level2
- Widest raw gap
- Post-Market Monitoring37 vs 48
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Post-Market Monitoring12% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
ClearCo (ClearCompany) and Factorial are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
| Record | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Factorial |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | ES |
| Founded | 2004 | 2016 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight33% of the movement so far
ClearCo (ClearCompany)37Factorial481.3 weighted points to Factorial
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight53% of the movement so far
ClearCo (ClearCompany)56Factorial520.8 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
- 3
FRIA Support
15% weight72% of the movement so far
ClearCo (ClearCompany)30Factorial350.8 weighted points to Factorial
- 4
Human Oversight Design
12% weight87% of the movement so far
ClearCo (ClearCompany)63Factorial580.6 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
- 5
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight100% of the movement so far
ClearCo (ClearCompany)28Factorial250.5 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -0.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.0 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 -0.1.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ClearCo (ClearCompany) minus Factorial, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Factorial | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 52 | +4 | +0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 57 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 58 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 48 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 46F | 46F | - | -0.1 |
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) | Factorial | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | 4 | 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 | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources 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; Factorial has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 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 72 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains, and 34 for Factorial, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Factorial last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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