§ The result
Darwinbox leads SeekOut by 12 points.
Darwinbox, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 12 points above SeekOut, filed under Sourcing: 46 against 34 under rubric v1.0. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Darwinbox: Darwinbox is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and SeekOut on Bias Audit Transparency. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Darwinbox 60, SeekOut 35, 20% weight), is only 37% of the weighted advantage Darwinbox builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
Darwinbox is filed under ATS-integrated AI, SeekOut under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Darwinbox is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Darwinbox | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Darwinbox 60 · SeekOut 35
5.0 weighted points to Darwinbox
15% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Darwinbox 58 · SeekOut 35
3.4 weighted points to Darwinbox
18% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Darwinbox 28 · SeekOut 40
2.2 weighted points to SeekOut
8% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Darwinbox 57 · SeekOut 35
1.8 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Darwinbox 55 · SeekOut 45
1.2 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Darwinbox 35 · SeekOut 25
1.2 weighted points to Darwinbox
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Darwinbox 30 · SeekOut 25
0.8 weighted points to Darwinbox
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +11.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +11.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Darwinbox minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | Darwinbox | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 35 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 35 | +23 | +3.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 45 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 35 | +22 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 34 (F) | +12 | +11.2 |
§ 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 | 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% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 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 domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Darwinbox has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 40 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next