Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
ClearCo (ClearCompany) vs RippleMatch
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.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
RippleMatch
RippleMatch is an early-career recruiting platform that sources students and recent graduates for employers' roles, ranks applicants with a 0-100 Fit Score built from criteria the recruiter configures, and adds verified skill badges, applicant review, interview scheduling and campus-event tools.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
The result
ClearCo (ClearCompany) and RippleMatch tie at 46.
ClearCo (ClearCompany) (ATS-integrated) and RippleMatch (Sourcing) tie at 46 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. ClearCo (ClearCompany) leads 4 of the 7 criteria and RippleMatch 1, with 2 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28, RippleMatch 53) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 100% of the weighted advantage RippleMatch holds across the 1 criterion it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- ClearCo (ClearCompany)4
- RippleMatch1
- Level2
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency28 vs 53
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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Both scores and all 7 criteria, side by side, in your inbox.
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
ClearCo (ClearCompany) is filed under ATS-integrated AI, RippleMatch under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Scheduling.
Both are in scope of
| Record | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | RippleMatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2016 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight52% of the movement so far
ClearCo (ClearCompany)28RippleMatch534.5 weighted points to RippleMatch
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight75% of the movement so far
ClearCo (ClearCompany)56RippleMatch462.0 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight87% of the movement so far
ClearCo (ClearCompany)57RippleMatch501.1 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
- 4
Human Oversight Design
12% weight95% of the movement so far
ClearCo (ClearCompany)63RippleMatch570.7 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
- 5
FRIA Support
15% weight100% of the movement so far
ClearCo (ClearCompany)30RippleMatch270.4 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -0.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that -0.3.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ClearCo (ClearCompany) minus RippleMatch, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | RippleMatch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 46 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 53 | -25 | -4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 50 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 57 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 37 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 46F | 46F | - | -0.3 |
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) | RippleMatch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 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 | 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 | 7 | 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 | 7 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | Audit reportSources 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 35 | 7 | 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; RippleMatch has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for ClearCo (ClearCompany) and RippleMatch sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 80 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains, and 42 for RippleMatch, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RippleMatch last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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