§ The result
SEEK leads Darwinbox on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, SEEK, filed under Screening, finishes on 54 and Darwinbox, filed under ATS-integrated, on 46, 8 points apart. SEEK takes all 7 criteria from Darwinbox without a 20-point raw gap on any of them; the closest is FRIA Support, Darwinbox 30 to SEEK 32. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Post-Market Monitoring (Darwinbox 35, SEEK 50) and Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Darwinbox 28, SEEK 40), the second being 27% of the weighted advantage SEEK holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Darwinbox
Darwinbox is an enterprise HCM suite whose recruitment module uses Darwinbox Sense AI (now sold inside its Cortex agent platform) to parse resumes, stack-rank and recommend candidates with stated fit reasoning, run screening and shortlisting agents, and give candidates an assistant for job matching, interview details and FAQs.
Vendor profile
SEEK
SEEK runs employment marketplaces in Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia (SEEK, Jobstreet and Jobsdb), and its seekAi employer tools label and rank applicants as 'high-fit' using a model trained on millions of past hirer shortlisting decisions, target job ads at predicted high-fit candidates, and run AI voice or text pre-screens, recommended shortlists and reference checks through a feature called Assist.
§ The record
Darwinbox is filed under ATS-integrated AI, SEEK under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Darwinbox | SEEK |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | AU |
| Founded | 2015 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Darwinbox 28 · SEEK 40
2.2 weighted points to SEEK
20% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Darwinbox 60 · SEEK 70
2.0 weighted points to SEEK
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Darwinbox 35 · SEEK 50
1.8 weighted points to SEEK
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Darwinbox 55 · SEEK 62
0.8 weighted points to SEEK
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Darwinbox 57 · SEEK 64
0.6 weighted points to SEEK
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Darwinbox 30 · SEEK 32
0.3 weighted points to SEEK
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Darwinbox 58 · SEEK 60
0.3 weighted points to SEEK
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 8.0 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 Darwinbox minus SEEK.
| Category | Weight | Darwinbox | SEEK | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 70 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 50 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 64 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 54 (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 | Darwinbox | SEEK | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 23 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Darwinbox has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; SEEK has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SEEK sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain, and 30 for SEEK, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SEEK last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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