§ The result
4 points separate ClearCo (ClearCompany) and Tengai.
ClearCo (ClearCompany) holds a 4-point edge over Tengai under rubric v1.0, 46 to 42, across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of ClearCo (ClearCompany): ClearCo (ClearCompany) is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Tengai on Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56, Tengai 45 — and at a 20% weight it carries 44% 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
Tengai
Tengai runs structured screening interviews through a browser-based AI avatar and combines candidates' yes/no qualification answers, a Five-Factor-based personality score and recruiter ratings of open answers into an automatically ranked shortlist.
§ The record
ClearCo (ClearCompany) is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Tengai under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Tengai is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Tengai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SE |
| Founded | 2004 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56 · Tengai 45
2.2 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
15% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 57 · Tengai 50
1.1 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
18% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28 · Tengai 33
0.9 weighted points to Tengai
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63 · Tengai 58
0.6 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37 · Tengai 33
0.5 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 60 · Tengai 55
0.4 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 30 · Tengai 28
0.3 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +4.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +4.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ClearCo (ClearCompany) minus Tengai.
| Category | Weight | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Tengai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 45 | +11 | +2.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 33 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 50 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 58 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 33 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 42 (F) | +4 | +4.1 |
§ 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) | Tengai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 37 | 5 | Sources 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; Tengai has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 37 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for ClearCo (ClearCompany) and Tengai 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 Tengai, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tengai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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