§ The result
Criteria leads SeekOut on all 7 criteria.
Criteria finishes 19 points clear of SeekOut under rubric v1.0 — 53 against 34 — across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. Criteria leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; SeekOut leads none. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Criteria 68, SeekOut 35, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 36% of the weighted advantage Criteria holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Criteria
Criteria is a pre-employment assessment platform offering scientifically validated cognitive aptitude, personality, emotional-intelligence and skills tests, plus structured and AI-assisted interview tools, used to evaluate and rank job candidates.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
Criteria 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 Criteria is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Criteria | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2006 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Criteria 68 · SeekOut 35
6.6 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Criteria 62 · SeekOut 35
4.0 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Criteria 42 · SeekOut 25
2.0 weighted points to Criteria
8% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Criteria 60 · SeekOut 35
2.0 weighted points to Criteria
18% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Criteria 48 · SeekOut 40
1.4 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Criteria 56 · SeekOut 45
1.3 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Criteria 32 · SeekOut 25
1.1 weighted points to Criteria
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +18.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +19 beside that +18.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Criteria minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | Criteria | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 35 | +33 | +6.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 40 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 25 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 35 | +27 | +4.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 45 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 25 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 35 | +25 | +2.0 |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 34 (F) | +19 | +18.5 |
§ 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 | Criteria | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 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.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 27 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next