§ The result
ClearCo (ClearCompany) leads Paradox by 5 points.
ClearCo (ClearCompany) scores 46 and Paradox 41 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Scheduling cohorts. Paradox takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 6 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing are the same criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, and Paradox holds it (ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28, Paradox 50, 18% weight), worth 100% of the weighted advantage Paradox builds across the 1 criterion 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
Paradox
Conversational AI ("Olivia") that screens, schedules, and engages candidates over chat and SMS, often deployed on top of an existing ATS.
§ The record
ClearCo (ClearCompany) is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Paradox under Scheduling 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) | Paradox |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28 · Paradox 50
4.0 weighted points to Paradox
20% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56 · Paradox 40
3.2 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
15% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 57 · Paradox 45
1.8 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63 · Paradox 50
1.6 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 60 · Paradox 45
1.2 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 30 · Paradox 25
0.8 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37 · Paradox 35
0.2 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +4.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +4.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ClearCo (ClearCompany) minus Paradox.
| Category | Weight | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Paradox | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 40 | +16 | +3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 50 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 45 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 50 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 35 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 41 (F) | +5 | +4.8 |
§ 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) | Paradox | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 8 | 2 | 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; Paradox has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for ClearCo (ClearCompany) and Paradox sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains, and 10 for Paradox, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paradox last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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