§ The result
4 points separate Handshake and ClearCo (ClearCompany).
Handshake (Screening) edges ClearCo (ClearCompany) (ATS-integrated) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 50 to 46. ClearCo (ClearCompany) and Handshake each lead 2 of the 7 criteria, with 3 level, though the side of the split Handshake holds (headed by Bias Audit Transparency) adds up to more weighted points. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28, Handshake 52) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 77% of the weighted advantage Handshake holds across the 2 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
Handshake
Handshake is an early-career recruiting network whose employer tools use AI to rank applicants against employer-set criteria, find and message matching students and graduates, and target job promotions.
§ The record
ClearCo (ClearCompany) is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Handshake 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.
| Record | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Handshake |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2014 |
§ 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 · Handshake 52
4.3 weighted points to Handshake
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56 · Handshake 48
1.6 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37 · Handshake 48
1.3 weighted points to Handshake
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63 · Handshake 58
0.6 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to -3.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -3.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ClearCo (ClearCompany) minus Handshake.
| Category | Weight | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Handshake | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 48 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 52 | -24 | -4.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| 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% | 46 (F) | 50 (F) | -4 | -3.4 |
§ 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) | Handshake | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 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 | 27 | 7 | 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; Handshake 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) and Handshake 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 Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
HireAIScore scores are editorial research, not legal advice, and no vendor pays for placement, scoring or removal — see the methodology, conflicts policy and terms.
§ Where next