§ The result
Employment Hero leads SeekOut by 14 points.
Employment Hero sits 14 points above SeekOut under rubric v1.0 — 48 against 34 — with Employment Hero filed under Screening and SeekOut under Sourcing. SeekOut takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 6 for Employment Hero, whose share includes Data Governance Disclosure. Customer Documentation is the widest raw gap (Employment Hero 62, SeekOut 35) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Data Governance Disclosure at 15% (Employment Hero 56, SeekOut 35), 22% of the weighted advantage Employment Hero builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Employment Hero
SmartMatch is Employment Hero's AI candidate-matching engine. Since March 2026 it has been surfaced through Find Talent and ATS applicant scoring, where it ranks job seekers and applicants against employer criteria and feeds a Recruitment Agent that auto-shortlists candidates and runs AI video and phone screening interviews.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
Employment Hero is filed under Screening 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 Employment Hero is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Employment Hero | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 21% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · SeekOut 35
3.1 weighted points to Employment Hero
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · SeekOut 35
3.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · SeekOut 25
3.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
8% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · SeekOut 35
2.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · SeekOut 45
2.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · SeekOut 25
1.1 weighted points to Employment Hero
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · SeekOut 40
0.9 weighted points to SeekOut
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +13.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 35 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 25 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 35 | +21 | +3.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 25 | +25 | +3.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 35 | +27 | +2.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 34 (F) | +14 | +13.5 |
§ 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 | Employment Hero | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | 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% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Employment Hero has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 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 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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