§ The result
Gem leads ClearCo (ClearCompany) by 9 points.
Gem scores 55 and ClearCo (ClearCompany) 46 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. ClearCo (ClearCompany) takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 5 for Gem, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28, Gem 66) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 73% of the weighted advantage Gem 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
Gem
Gem is an AI-first recruiting platform combining a talent CRM, AI sourcing and outreach automation, candidate engagement, and a newer applicant tracking system with AI-powered application review and ranking.
§ The record
ClearCo (ClearCompany) is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Gem under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Gem |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28 · Gem 66
6.8 weighted points to Gem
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37 · Gem 47
1.2 weighted points to Gem
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 30 · Gem 35
0.8 weighted points to Gem
20% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56 · Gem 58
0.4 weighted points to Gem
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63 · Gem 61
0.2 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 60 · Gem 62
0.2 weighted points to Gem
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -9.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -9 beside that -9.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ClearCo (ClearCompany) minus Gem.
| Category | Weight | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Gem | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 58 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 66 | -38 | -6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 57 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 61 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 47 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 55 (F) | -9 | -9.1 |
§ 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) | Gem | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 3 | 0 | 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 | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 19 | 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; Gem has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for ClearCo (ClearCompany) and Gem sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains, and 21 for Gem, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Gem last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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