§ The result
Coderbyte leads SeekOut by 8 points.
Coderbyte scores 42 and SeekOut 34 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Coderbyte: Coderbyte is ahead on Data Governance Disclosure and SeekOut on Bias Audit Transparency. SeekOut takes the heaviest weighted swing, Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Coderbyte 20, SeekOut 40), 100% of the weighted advantage it builds, while the widest raw gap is on Customer Documentation, Coderbyte 58 to SeekOut 35.
Vendor profile
Coderbyte
Coderbyte is a technical hiring platform offering coding assessments with automated and AI grading of challenges and take-home projects, live coding interviews, and AI screening that grades resumes against job-description criteria and runs agentic phone screens.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
Coderbyte 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 Coderbyte is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Coderbyte | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 24% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Coderbyte 20 · SeekOut 40
3.6 weighted points to SeekOut
15% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Coderbyte 56 · SeekOut 35
3.1 weighted points to Coderbyte
8% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Coderbyte 58 · SeekOut 35
1.8 weighted points to Coderbyte
20% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Coderbyte 44 · SeekOut 35
1.8 weighted points to Coderbyte
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Coderbyte 60 · SeekOut 45
1.8 weighted points to Coderbyte
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Coderbyte 40 · SeekOut 25
1.8 weighted points to Coderbyte
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Coderbyte 33 · SeekOut 25
1.2 weighted points to Coderbyte
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +8.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +8.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Coderbyte minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | Coderbyte | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 44 | 35 | +9 | +1.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 40 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 33 | 25 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 35 | +21 | +3.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 25 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 35 | +23 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 34 (F) | +8 | +8.0 |
§ 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 | Coderbyte | SeekOut | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Coderbyte has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 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; some documentation or audit rows for Coderbyte sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 40 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Coderbyte, across 2 distinct source domains, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Coderbyte last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next