§ The result
Spark Hire leads ClearCo (ClearCompany) by 7 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Spark Hire, filed under Video interview, finishes on 53 and ClearCo (ClearCompany), filed under ATS-integrated, on 46, 7 points apart. Spark Hire leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while ClearCo (ClearCompany) leads 1, including Human Oversight Design, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28, Spark Hire 62 — and at an 18% weight it carries 83% of the weighted advantage Spark Hire holds across the 5 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
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
§ The record
ClearCo (ClearCompany) is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Spark Hire under Video interview 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 Spark Hire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Spark Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28 · Spark Hire 62
6.1 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 57 · Spark Hire 60
0.4 weighted points to Spark Hire
20% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56 · Spark Hire 58
0.4 weighted points to Spark Hire
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 60 · Spark Hire 64
0.3 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63 · Spark Hire 62
0.1 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37 · Spark Hire 38
0.1 weighted points to Spark Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -7.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -7.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ClearCo (ClearCompany) minus Spark Hire.
| Category | Weight | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Spark Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 58 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 62 | -34 | -6.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 60 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 62 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 38 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 64 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 53 (F) | -7 | -7.3 |
§ 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) | Spark Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 4 | 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; Spark Hire has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for ClearCo (ClearCompany) and Spark Hire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains, and 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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