§ The result
HiBob leads SeekOut by 12 points.
HiBob, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 12 points above SeekOut, filed under Sourcing: 46 against 34 under rubric v1.0. SeekOut takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 6 for HiBob, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (HiBob 61, SeekOut 35) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (HiBob 55, SeekOut 35), the second being 26% of the weighted advantage HiBob holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HiBob
HiBob's Bob is an all-in-one HR platform whose Bob Hiring applicant tracking module uses AI to give each application an explainable match score against recruiter-defined criteria (AI CV Matching) and to draft job descriptions, interview scorecards and candidate emails.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
HiBob is filed under ATS-integrated 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 HiBob is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | HiBob | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 21% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiBob 55 · SeekOut 35
4.0 weighted points to HiBob
18% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiBob 20 · SeekOut 40
3.6 weighted points to SeekOut
15% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiBob 57 · SeekOut 35
3.3 weighted points to HiBob
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiBob 47 · SeekOut 25
2.6 weighted points to HiBob
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiBob 63 · SeekOut 45
2.2 weighted points to HiBob
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiBob 61 · SeekOut 35
2.1 weighted points to HiBob
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiBob 35 · SeekOut 25
1.5 weighted points to HiBob
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +12.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +12.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiBob minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | HiBob | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 35 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 40 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 35 | +22 | +3.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 45 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 25 | +22 | +2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 61 | 35 | +26 | +2.1 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 34 (F) | +12 | +12.1 |
§ 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 | HiBob | SeekOut | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
HiBob has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 7 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 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for HiBob, across 4 distinct source domains, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiBob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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