§ The result
4 points separate ClearCo (ClearCompany) and Zoho Recruit.
Within the ATS-integrated cohort, ClearCo (ClearCompany) edges Zoho Recruit by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 46 to 42. The 7 criteria split 4 to 1 in favour of ClearCo (ClearCompany), with 2 level: ClearCo (ClearCompany) is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Zoho Recruit on Post-Market Monitoring. Article 11 Technical Documentation, at 20%, is the heaviest weighted swing and goes to ClearCo (ClearCompany) (ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56, Zoho Recruit 45), 46% of the weighted advantage it holds, while the widest raw gap is Human Oversight Design, ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63 to Zoho Recruit 50.
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
Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit is a cloud-based applicant tracking and recruiting platform whose Zia AI assistant performs resume parsing, skills-based candidate-to-job matching, match scoring, sourcing, and AI-assisted screening and assessments.
§ The record
ClearCo (ClearCompany) and Zoho Recruit 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. Only Zoho Recruit is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2004 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 56 · Zoho Recruit 45
2.2 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 63 · Zoho Recruit 50
1.6 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
18% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 28 · Zoho Recruit 24
0.7 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 37 · Zoho Recruit 40
0.4 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ClearCo (ClearCompany) 57 · Zoho Recruit 55
0.3 weighted points to ClearCo (ClearCompany)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +4.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.1 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 +4.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ClearCo (ClearCompany) minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | ClearCo (ClearCompany) | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 56 | 45 | +11 | +2.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 24 | +4 | +0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 50 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 37 | 40 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 42 (F) | +4 | +4.4 |
§ 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) | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 1 | 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 | 1 | 1 | 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 | 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 domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 7 | Audit reportSources 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; Zoho Recruit has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 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 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for ClearCo (ClearCompany), across 3 distinct source domains, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ClearCo (ClearCompany) last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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