§ The result
ClearCo (ClearCompany) leads Paycor by 6 points.
ClearCo (ClearCompany) finishes 6 points ahead of Paycor under rubric v1.0, 46 to 40, both scored as ATS-integrated entries. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of ClearCo (ClearCompany): ClearCo (ClearCompany) is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Paycor on Post-Market Monitoring. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56, Paycor 40 — and at a 20% weight it carries 48% of the weighted advantage ClearCo (ClearCompany) holds across the 6 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
Paycor
Paycor, a Paychex company, sells a mid-market HR and payroll suite whose recruiting tools include the Paycor Recruiting ATS, Paycor Smart Sourcing (formerly Talenya), which uses AI to build a prioritized list of passive and active candidates for each role and automate outreach, and a WISE assistant that phone-screens candidates and scores their answers.
§ The record
ClearCo (ClearCompany) and Paycor are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Paycor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 1990 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56 · Paycor 40
3.2 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
15% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 57 · Paycor 50
1.1 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63 · Paycor 55
1.0 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
18% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28 · Paycor 25
0.5 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 30 · Paycor 27
0.4 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 60 · Paycor 55
0.4 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37 · Paycor 38
0.1 weighted points to Paycor
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +6.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.7 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 +6.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ClearCo (ClearCompany) minus Paycor.
| Category | Weight | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Paycor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 40 | +16 | +3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 50 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 55 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 38 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 40 (F) | +6 | +6.5 |
§ 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) | Paycor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 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 | 6 | 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; Paycor has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for ClearCo (ClearCompany) and Paycor sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains, and 30 for Paycor, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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