§ The result
ClearCo (ClearCompany) leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, ClearCo (ClearCompany) (ATS-integrated) opens a 23-point lead on Mercor (Screening), 46 to 23. Mercor leads none of the 7 criteria, and ClearCo (ClearCompany) is ahead on 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Data Governance Disclosure (ClearCo (ClearCompany) 57, Mercor 22) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56, Mercor 22), the second being 30% of the weighted advantage ClearCo (ClearCompany) holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Mercor
Mercor is an AI talent platform that runs automated 20-minute AI video interviews and semantic resume/profile matching to vet, score, and place candidates and expert contractors, and offers an enterprise applicant-screening product that scores employers' applicant pools against role rubrics with pass/fail recommendations.
§ The record
ClearCo (ClearCompany) is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Mercor 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. Only Mercor is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56 · Mercor 22
6.8 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
15% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 57 · Mercor 22
5.3 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
18% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28 · Mercor 10
3.2 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63 · Mercor 42
2.5 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37 · Mercor 20
2.0 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 60 · Mercor 40
1.6 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 30 · Mercor 20
1.5 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +22.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 22.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +23 beside that +22.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ClearCo (ClearCompany) minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 22 | +34 | +6.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 10 | +18 | +3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 20 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 22 | +35 | +5.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 42 | +21 | +2.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 20 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 40 | +20 | +1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 23 (F) | +23 | +22.9 |
§ 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) | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| 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 | 2 | 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 10 | 8 | 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; Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 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 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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