§ The result
HiPeople leads SeekOut on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 27 points between HiPeople (Assessment) and SeekOut (Sourcing): 61 (D) for HiPeople, 34 (F) for SeekOut. HiPeople leads every one of the 7 criteria and 5 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; SeekOut leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (HiPeople 84, SeekOut 40, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 29% of the weighted advantage HiPeople holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HiPeople
HiPeople is a Berlin-based hiring platform combining a 400+ test skills and personality assessment library, automated AI reference checks, AI resume/application screening that scores candidates against job criteria, and AI screening calls.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
HiPeople 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 HiPeople is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiPeople | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | DE | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiPeople 84 · SeekOut 40
7.9 weighted points to HiPeople
20% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiPeople 62 · SeekOut 35
5.4 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiPeople 60 · SeekOut 25
4.2 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiPeople 58 · SeekOut 35
3.4 weighted points to HiPeople
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiPeople 66 · SeekOut 35
2.5 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiPeople 62 · SeekOut 45
2.0 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiPeople 35 · SeekOut 25
1.5 weighted points to HiPeople
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +27.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 27.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +27 beside that +27.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiPeople minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | HiPeople | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 35 | +27 | +5.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 84 | 40 | +44 | +7.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 35 | +23 | +3.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 25 | +35 | +4.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 35 | +31 | +2.5 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 34 (F) | +27 | +27.0 |
§ 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 | HiPeople | SeekOut | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
HiPeople has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 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; some documentation or audit rows for HiPeople sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 40 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for HiPeople, across 3 distinct source domains, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiPeople last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next