The result

HireQuotient and SeekOut tie at 34.

HireQuotient and SeekOut tie at 34 under rubric v1.0 inside the Sourcing cohort, arriving there from different criteria. HireQuotient leads 4 of the 7 criteria and SeekOut 2, with 1 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (HireQuotient 18, SeekOut 40) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 90% of the weighted advantage SeekOut holds across the 2 criteria it leads.

Criteria won

7 criteria

  • HireQuotient4
  • SeekOut2
  • Level1
Widest raw gap
Bias Audit Transparency18 vs 40
Heaviest weighted swing
Bias Audit Transparency18% weight

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The record

Categories, scope and company facts.

HireQuotient and SeekOut are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.

RecordHireQuotientSeekOut
Price tierLowEnterprise
HeadquartersSGUS
Founded20212017

What decides it

The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.

  1. Bias Audit Transparency

    18% weight47% of the movement so far

    HireQuotient18
    SeekOut40

    4.0 weighted points to SeekOut

  2. Human Oversight Design

    12% weight64% of the movement so far

    HireQuotient57
    SeekOut45

    1.4 weighted points to HireQuotient

  3. Customer Documentation

    8% weight79% of the movement so far

    HireQuotient50
    SeekOut35

    1.2 weighted points to HireQuotient

  4. Data Governance Disclosure

    15% weight88% of the movement so far

    HireQuotient40
    SeekOut35

    0.8 weighted points to HireQuotient

  5. Post-Market Monitoring

    12% weight95% of the movement so far

    HireQuotient30
    SeekOut25

    0.6 weighted points to HireQuotient

  6. FRIA Support

    15% weight100% of the movement so far

    HireQuotient22
    SeekOut25

    0.4 weighted points to SeekOut

Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -0.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that -0.4.

Category-by-category

Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.

Δ is HireQuotient minus SeekOut, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.

CategoryWeightHireQuotientSeekOutΔ rawΔ weighted
Article 11 Technical Documentation20%3535--
Bias Audit Transparency18%1840-22-4.0
FRIA Support15%2225-3-0.4
Data Governance Disclosure15%4035+5+0.8
Human Oversight Design12%5745+12+1.4
Post-Market Monitoring12%3025+5+0.6
Customer Documentation8%5035+15+1.2
Total100%34F34F--0.4

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.

CriterionWeightHireQuotientSeekOut
CitedAbsencesAudit / hostingCitedAbsencesAudit / hosting
Article 11 Technical Documentation20%31Sources on the vendor's own domain11Sources on the vendor's own domain
Bias Audit Transparency18%31Sources on the vendor's own domain11—
FRIA Support15%11Sources on the vendor's own domain01—
Data Governance Disclosure15%60Sources on the vendor's own domain10Sources on the vendor's own domain
Human Oversight Design12%60Sources on the vendor's own domain10Sources on the vendor's own domain
Post-Market Monitoring12%31Sources on the vendor's own domain01—
Customer Documentation8%21Sources on the vendor's own domain10Sources on the vendor's own domain
All criteria100%245Sources on the vendor's own domain54Sources on the vendor's own domain

HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 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 HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.

Rubric
v1.0
HireQuotient last reviewed
September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
SeekOut last reviewed
May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team

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