§ The result
Bryq leads SeekOut on all 7 criteria.
Bryq finishes 23 points clear of SeekOut under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 34 — across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. Bryq leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; SeekOut leads none. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Bryq 66, SeekOut 35) and Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Bryq 70, SeekOut 40), the second being 24% of the weighted advantage Bryq holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Bryq
Bryq is a science-based talent-intelligence platform whose core product is a short, blind, chatbot-driven pre-hire assessment scoring candidates on cognitive ability, personality/behavioral traits, and job skills to produce a job-fit "match" score used for hiring and internal mobility.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
Bryq is filed under Assessment AI, SeekOut under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Bryq is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Bryq | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 24% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bryq 70 · SeekOut 40
5.4 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bryq 62 · SeekOut 35
4.0 weighted points to Bryq
20% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bryq 54 · SeekOut 35
3.8 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bryq 55 · SeekOut 25
3.6 weighted points to Bryq
8% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bryq 66 · SeekOut 35
2.5 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bryq 40 · SeekOut 25
2.3 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bryq 54 · SeekOut 45
1.1 weighted points to Bryq
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +22.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 22.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +23 beside that +22.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bryq minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | Bryq | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 54 | 35 | +19 | +3.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 70 | 40 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 25 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 35 | +27 | +4.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 45 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 25 | +30 | +3.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 35 | +31 | +2.5 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 34 (F) | +23 | +22.7 |
§ 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 | Bryq | SeekOut | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Bryq has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; SeekOut has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 5 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Bryq sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 33 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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