§ The result
Emmersion leads SeekOut by 10 points.
Emmersion sits 10 points above SeekOut under rubric v1.0 — 44 against 34 — with Emmersion filed under Assessment and SeekOut under Sourcing. Emmersion leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while SeekOut leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Customer Documentation is the widest raw gap (Emmersion 60, SeekOut 35) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Emmersion 57, SeekOut 35), 37% of the weighted advantage Emmersion builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Emmersion
Emmersion, Rosetta Stone's assessment division within IXL Learning, sells AI-scored adaptive TrueNorth speaking and writing tests and WebCAPE reading and grammar exams. They rate language proficiency on a 0-10 scale mapped to CEFR and ACTFL and are used for pre-employment screening, checking employees' language skills and placing students.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
Emmersion 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 Emmersion is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Emmersion | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Emmersion 57 · SeekOut 35
4.4 weighted points to Emmersion
15% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emmersion 50 · SeekOut 35
2.3 weighted points to Emmersion
18% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Emmersion 28 · SeekOut 40
2.2 weighted points to SeekOut
8% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Emmersion 60 · SeekOut 35
2.0 weighted points to Emmersion
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Emmersion 38 · SeekOut 25
1.6 weighted points to Emmersion
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emmersion 53 · SeekOut 45
1.0 weighted points to Emmersion
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Emmersion 30 · SeekOut 25
0.8 weighted points to Emmersion
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +9.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +9.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emmersion minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | Emmersion | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 57 | 35 | +22 | +4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 35 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 45 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 25 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 35 | +25 | +2.0 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 34 (F) | +10 | +9.8 |
§ 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 | Emmersion | SeekOut | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 35 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Emmersion has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 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 Emmersion sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 40 for Emmersion, across 5 distinct source domains, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emmersion last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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