§ The result
Gloat leads SeekOut by 13 points.
Gloat sits 13 points above SeekOut under rubric v1.0, 47 against 34, with both filed under Sourcing. Gloat leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Data Governance Disclosure, while SeekOut leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Gloat 62, SeekOut 35) and Data Governance Disclosure at 15% (Gloat 58, SeekOut 35), the second being 27% of the weighted advantage Gloat holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Gloat
Gloat is an AI-powered internal talent marketplace and "agentic HR" platform that matches an employer's existing employees to internal job openings, gigs, projects, mentorships, and learning based on inferred skills and career goals.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
Gloat and SeekOut are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Gloat is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Gloat | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Gloat 58 · SeekOut 35
3.4 weighted points to Gloat
20% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Gloat 48 · SeekOut 35
2.6 weighted points to Gloat
8% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Gloat 62 · SeekOut 35
2.2 weighted points to Gloat
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Gloat 62 · SeekOut 45
2.0 weighted points to Gloat
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Gloat 42 · SeekOut 25
2.0 weighted points to Gloat
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Gloat 28 · SeekOut 25
0.4 weighted points to Gloat
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Gloat 38 · SeekOut 40
0.4 weighted points to SeekOut
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +12.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +12.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Gloat minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | Gloat | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 35 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 35 | +23 | +3.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 25 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 35 | +27 | +2.2 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 34 (F) | +13 | +12.4 |
§ 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 | Gloat | SeekOut | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 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% | 21 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Gloat has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 8 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 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for Gloat, across 1 distinct source domain, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Gloat last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next