§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads ClearCo (ClearCompany) on all 7 criteria.
LinkedIn Recruiter, filed under Sourcing, comes out 11 points above ClearCo (ClearCompany), filed under ATS-integrated: 57 against 46 under rubric v1.0. LinkedIn Recruiter takes all 7 criteria and ClearCo (ClearCompany) none of them; the nearest contest is Human Oversight Design, ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63 to LinkedIn Recruiter 66. The advantage LinkedIn Recruiter holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28, LinkedIn Recruiter 50, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 37% of the weighted points LinkedIn Recruiter gains 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
LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter is LinkedIn's enterprise sourcing and candidate-management platform, whose Hiring Assistant add-on and AI-Assisted Search use AI to turn intake notes into qualifications, source and rank candidates, evaluate applicants against recruiter-set qualifications, and draft or send outreach.
§ The record
ClearCo (ClearCompany) is filed under ATS-integrated AI, LinkedIn Recruiter under Candidate sourcing 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.
| Record | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | LinkedIn Recruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2002 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
4.0 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
20% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56 · LinkedIn Recruiter 67
2.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
1.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 30 · LinkedIn Recruiter 38
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 57 · LinkedIn Recruiter 62
0.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 60 · LinkedIn Recruiter 68
0.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63 · LinkedIn Recruiter 66
0.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -10.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -10.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ClearCo (ClearCompany) minus LinkedIn Recruiter.
| Category | Weight | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | LinkedIn Recruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 67 | -11 | -2.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 50 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 62 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 66 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 50 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 68 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 57 (F) | -11 | -10.7 |
§ 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) | LinkedIn Recruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 34 | 5 | 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; LinkedIn Recruiter has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for ClearCo (ClearCompany) and LinkedIn Recruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 77 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains, and 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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