§ 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.
Vendor profile
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
HireQuotient and SeekOut are both filed 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 HireQuotient is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HireQuotient | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | SG | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HireQuotient 18 · SeekOut 40
4.0 weighted points to SeekOut
12% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireQuotient 57 · SeekOut 45
1.4 weighted points to HireQuotient
8% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireQuotient 50 · SeekOut 35
1.2 weighted points to HireQuotient
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HireQuotient 40 · SeekOut 35
0.8 weighted points to HireQuotient
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireQuotient 30 · SeekOut 25
0.6 weighted points to HireQuotient
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireQuotient 22 · SeekOut 25
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.
| Category | Weight | HireQuotient | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 40 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 25 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 45 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 35 | +15 | +1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 34 (F) | - | -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.
| Criterion | Weight | HireQuotient | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 4 | Sources 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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§ Where next