§ The result
DevSkiller leads SeekOut by 5 points.
DevSkiller scores 39 and SeekOut 34 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. DevSkiller leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Data Governance Disclosure, while SeekOut leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency, and 2 are level. The heaviest weighted swing runs the other way — SeekOut takes Bias Audit Transparency at 18%, DevSkiller 22 to SeekOut 40, 100% of the weighted advantage SeekOut holds — while the widest raw gap sits on Customer Documentation, DevSkiller 58 to SeekOut 35.
Vendor profile
DevSkiller
DevSkiller (now branded SkillPanel) provides technical skills assessment and coding tests that automatically score developer candidates on real-world work-sample tasks using hidden verification unit tests and static code analysis.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
DevSkiller 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 DevSkiller is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | DevSkiller | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | PL | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
DevSkiller 22 · SeekOut 40
3.2 weighted points to SeekOut
15% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
DevSkiller 52 · SeekOut 35
2.5 weighted points to DevSkiller
8% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
DevSkiller 58 · SeekOut 35
1.8 weighted points to DevSkiller
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
DevSkiller 40 · SeekOut 25
1.8 weighted points to DevSkiller
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
DevSkiller 55 · SeekOut 45
1.2 weighted points to DevSkiller
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +4.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +4.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is DevSkiller minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | DevSkiller | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 40 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 35 | +17 | +2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 45 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 25 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 35 | +23 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 34 (F) | +5 | +4.1 |
§ 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 | DevSkiller | SeekOut | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 4 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
DevSkiller has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 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; some documentation or audit rows for DevSkiller sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 24 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 15 for DevSkiller, across 2 distinct source domains, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- DevSkiller last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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