§ The result
ClearCo (ClearCompany) leads HireQuotient on all 7 criteria.
ClearCo (ClearCompany) sits 12 points above HireQuotient under rubric v1.0 — 46 against 34 — with ClearCo (ClearCompany) filed under ATS-integrated and HireQuotient under Sourcing. ClearCo (ClearCompany) takes all 7 criteria and HireQuotient none of them; the nearest contest is Human Oversight Design, ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63 to HireQuotient 57. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56, HireQuotient 35, 20% weight), is only 35% of the weighted advantage ClearCo (ClearCompany) builds across the 7 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
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
§ The record
ClearCo (ClearCompany) is filed under ATS-integrated AI, HireQuotient 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. Only HireQuotient is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | HireQuotient |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2004 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56 · HireQuotient 35
4.2 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
15% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 57 · HireQuotient 40
2.5 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
18% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28 · HireQuotient 18
1.8 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 30 · HireQuotient 22
1.2 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37 · HireQuotient 30
0.8 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 60 · HireQuotient 50
0.8 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63 · HireQuotient 57
0.7 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +12.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +12.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ClearCo (ClearCompany) minus HireQuotient.
| Category | Weight | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | HireQuotient | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 35 | +21 | +4.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 18 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 22 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 40 | +17 | +2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 57 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 30 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 34 (F) | +12 | +12.1 |
§ 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) | HireQuotient | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 6 | 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 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 24 | 5 | 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; HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 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 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains, and 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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