§ The result
Cappfinity leads SeekOut by 6 points.
Cappfinity scores 40 and SeekOut 34 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. SeekOut takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 6 for Cappfinity, whose share includes Data Governance Disclosure. Customer Documentation is the widest raw gap (Cappfinity 56, SeekOut 35) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Data Governance Disclosure at 15% (Cappfinity 52, SeekOut 35), 35% of the weighted advantage Cappfinity builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Cappfinity
Cappfinity sells strengths-, skills- and cognitive-reasoning assessments, task-based job simulations, a digital assessment centre and an asynchronous video interview platform with optional AI-assisted scoring, and is used mainly for graduate and early-careers hiring.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
Cappfinity 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 Cappfinity is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cappfinity | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2005 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cappfinity 52 · SeekOut 35
2.5 weighted points to Cappfinity
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cappfinity 28 · SeekOut 40
2.2 weighted points to SeekOut
8% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cappfinity 56 · SeekOut 35
1.7 weighted points to Cappfinity
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cappfinity 38 · SeekOut 25
1.6 weighted points to Cappfinity
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cappfinity 52 · SeekOut 45
0.8 weighted points to Cappfinity
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cappfinity 28 · SeekOut 25
0.4 weighted points to Cappfinity
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cappfinity 36 · SeekOut 35
0.2 weighted points to Cappfinity
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +5.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +5.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cappfinity minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | Cappfinity | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 36 | 35 | +1 | +0.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 35 | +17 | +2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 45 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 25 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 35 | +21 | +1.7 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 34 (F) | +6 | +5.1 |
§ 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 | Cappfinity | SeekOut | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 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% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Cappfinity has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 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; some documentation or audit rows for Cappfinity sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for Cappfinity, across 6 distinct source domains, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cappfinity last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next