§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads ClearCo (ClearCompany) by 16 points.
SmartRecruiters finishes 16 points clear of ClearCo (ClearCompany) inside the ATS-integrated cohort under rubric v1.0: 62 (D) against 46 (F). SmartRecruiters leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while ClearCo (ClearCompany) leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28, SmartRecruiters 78) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 55% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 6 criteria 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
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
§ The record
ClearCo (ClearCompany) and SmartRecruiters 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) | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28 · SmartRecruiters 78
9.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56 · SmartRecruiters 70
2.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 30 · SmartRecruiters 45
2.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37 · SmartRecruiters 48
1.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 57 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 60 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.1 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -16.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ClearCo (ClearCompany) minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 70 | -14 | -2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 78 | -50 | -9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 62 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 62 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 48 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 63 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 62 (D) | -16 | -16.2 |
§ 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) | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 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 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 11 | 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; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for ClearCo (ClearCompany) and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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