§ The result
SEEK leads Fetcher on all 7 criteria.
SEEK finishes 17 points clear of Fetcher under rubric v1.0 — 54 against 37 — across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. Of the 7 criteria Fetcher wins none, and the narrowest lead SEEK holds is on Data Governance Disclosure, Fetcher 55 to SEEK 60. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Fetcher 27, SEEK 70) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 53% of the weighted advantage SEEK holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Fetcher
AI-powered candidate sourcing and outbound recruiting platform that automates passive and active talent sourcing, personalized email outreach, and inbound applicant screening for corporate recruiting teams.
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
Fetcher is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, SEEK under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Fetcher | SEEK |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 2014 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fetcher 27 · SEEK 70
8.6 weighted points to SEEK
18% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fetcher 28 · SEEK 40
2.2 weighted points to SEEK
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Fetcher 35 · SEEK 50
1.8 weighted points to SEEK
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fetcher 52 · SEEK 62
1.2 weighted points to SEEK
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fetcher 25 · SEEK 32
1.1 weighted points to SEEK
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Fetcher 55 · SEEK 60
0.8 weighted points to SEEK
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fetcher 55 · SEEK 64
0.7 weighted points to SEEK
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -16.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fetcher minus SEEK.
| Category | Weight | Fetcher | SEEK | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 27 | 70 | -43 | -8.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 50 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 64 | -9 | -0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 54 (F) | -17 | -16.3 |
§ 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 | Fetcher | SEEK | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 23 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Fetcher has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 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 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Fetcher, across 1 distinct source domain, and 30 for SEEK, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fetcher last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SEEK last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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