§ The result
ADP leads SeekOut on all 7 criteria.
ADP sits 14 points above SeekOut under rubric v1.0 — 48 against 34 — with ADP filed under ATS-integrated and SeekOut under Sourcing. ADP leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Data Governance Disclosure among them; SeekOut leads none. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (ADP 58, SeekOut 35) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (ADP 53, SeekOut 35), the second being 26% of the weighted advantage ADP holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
ADP
ADP is an enterprise human capital management and payroll provider whose recruiting suite uses AI to parse, rank, and match job applicants via its Candidate Relevancy tool, ADP Assist generative-AI assistant/job-description generator, and skills intelligence.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
ADP 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 ADP is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | ADP | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1949 | 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
ADP 53 · SeekOut 35
3.6 weighted points to ADP
15% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ADP 57 · SeekOut 35
3.3 weighted points to ADP
12% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ADP 45 · SeekOut 25
2.4 weighted points to ADP
8% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ADP 58 · SeekOut 35
1.8 weighted points to ADP
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ADP 55 · SeekOut 45
1.2 weighted points to ADP
18% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ADP 46 · SeekOut 40
1.1 weighted points to ADP
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ADP 28 · SeekOut 25
0.4 weighted points to ADP
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +13.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ADP minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | ADP | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 53 | 35 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 46 | 40 | +6 | +1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 35 | +22 | +3.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 45 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 25 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 35 | +23 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 34 (F) | +14 | +13.9 |
§ 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 | ADP | SeekOut | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
ADP has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; SeekOut has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 5 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 32 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for ADP, across 2 distinct source domains, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ADP last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next