§ The result
ClearCo (ClearCompany) leads SeekOut by 12 points.
ClearCo (ClearCompany), filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 12 points above SeekOut, filed under Sourcing: 46 against 34 under rubric v1.0. SeekOut 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 fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (ClearCo (ClearCompany) 60, SeekOut 35) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56, SeekOut 35), the second being 30% 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
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
ClearCo (ClearCompany) is filed under ATS-integrated AI, SeekOut under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only ClearCo (ClearCompany) is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56 · SeekOut 35
4.2 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
15% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 57 · SeekOut 35
3.3 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
18% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28 · SeekOut 40
2.2 weighted points to SeekOut
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63 · SeekOut 45
2.2 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
8% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 60 · SeekOut 35
2.0 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37 · SeekOut 25
1.4 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 30 · SeekOut 25
0.8 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +11.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +11.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ClearCo (ClearCompany) minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 35 | +21 | +4.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 35 | +22 | +3.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 45 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 25 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 35 | +25 | +2.0 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 34 (F) | +12 | +11.7 |
§ 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) | SeekOut | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 4 | 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; SeekOut has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 5 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 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next