§ The result
BrightHire leads SeekOut on all 7 criteria.
BrightHire finishes 17 points clear of SeekOut under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 34 — across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. BrightHire leads every one of the 7 criteria, SeekOut none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Bias Audit Transparency, BrightHire 50 to SeekOut 40. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (BrightHire 62, SeekOut 35) and Data Governance Disclosure at 15% (BrightHire 60, SeekOut 35), the second being 23% of the weighted advantage BrightHire holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
BrightHire
BrightHire is an interview intelligence platform that records, transcribes and analyzes hiring interviews into competency-structured notes and ATS scorecards, and additionally runs AI-led screening interviews (BrightHire Screen) that score and rank candidates against customer-defined rubrics.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
BrightHire is filed under Screening 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 BrightHire is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | BrightHire | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 23% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · SeekOut 35
3.8 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · SeekOut 35
3.4 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · SeekOut 35
2.2 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BrightHire 42 · SeekOut 25
2.0 weighted points to BrightHire
18% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · SeekOut 40
1.8 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BrightHire 60 · SeekOut 45
1.8 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · SeekOut 25
1.6 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +16.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +17 beside that +16.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 35 | +17 | +3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 25 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 35 | +25 | +3.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 25 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 35 | +27 | +2.2 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 34 (F) | +17 | +16.6 |
§ 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 | BrightHire | 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 7 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 BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next