§ The result
HiringBranch leads ClearCo (ClearCompany) by 6 points.
HiringBranch scores 52 and ClearCo (ClearCompany) 46 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. HiringBranch leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while ClearCo (ClearCompany) leads 2, including Human Oversight Design. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28, HiringBranch 60) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 72% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch 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
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
§ The record
ClearCo (ClearCompany) is filed under ATS-integrated AI, HiringBranch under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only HiringBranch is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | HiringBranch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2004 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28 · HiringBranch 60
5.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63 · HiringBranch 52
1.3 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
20% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56 · HiringBranch 60
0.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 30 · HiringBranch 35
0.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37 · HiringBranch 40
0.4 weighted points to HiringBranch
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 60 · HiringBranch 64
0.3 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 57 · HiringBranch 55
0.3 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -6.4 — 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 -6 beside that -6.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ClearCo (ClearCompany) minus HiringBranch.
| Category | Weight | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | HiringBranch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 60 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 60 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 52 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 40 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 64 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 52 (F) | -6 | -6.4 |
§ 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) | HiringBranch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | 2 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 2 | 1 | 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 | 13 | 6 | 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; HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 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 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains, and 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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