§ The result
Plum takes the total, ClearCo (ClearCompany) takes more of the criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Plum, filed under Assessment, finishes on 54 and ClearCo (ClearCompany), filed under ATS-integrated, on 46, 8 points apart. ClearCo (ClearCompany) leads more of the criteria, 4 against 3 for Plum, yet Plum takes Bias Audit Transparency, which carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum with it. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28, Plum 83 — and at an 18% weight it carries 94% of the weighted advantage Plum holds across the 3 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
Plum
Plum is a pre-employment talent assessment platform that uses a Five-Factor (Big Five) psychometric Discovery Survey and a Talent Match model to score and rank candidates on behavioral "durable skills" for role fit, hiring, and development.
§ The record
ClearCo (ClearCompany) is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Plum 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 Plum is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Plum |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2004 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28 · Plum 83
9.9 weighted points to Plum
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63 · Plum 52
1.3 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 57 · Plum 54
0.4 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
20% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56 · Plum 58
0.4 weighted points to Plum
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 30 · Plum 28
0.3 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 60 · Plum 63
0.2 weighted points to Plum
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37 · Plum 36
0.1 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -8.4 — 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 -8 beside that -8.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ClearCo (ClearCompany) minus Plum.
| Category | Weight | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Plum | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 58 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 83 | -55 | -9.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 54 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 52 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 36 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 63 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 54 (F) | -8 | -8.4 |
§ 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) | Plum | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own 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 | 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 | Audit reportSources 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 | 15 | 4 | 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; Plum has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 4 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 Plum, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Plum last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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