§ The result
HiringBranch leads SeekOut on all 7 criteria.
HiringBranch finishes 18 points clear of SeekOut under rubric v1.0 — 52 against 34 — across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. HiringBranch leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; SeekOut leads none. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (HiringBranch 64, SeekOut 35) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (HiringBranch 60, SeekOut 35), the second being 28% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
HiringBranch 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 HiringBranch is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiringBranch | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | CA | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiringBranch 60 · SeekOut 35
5.0 weighted points to HiringBranch
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiringBranch 60 · SeekOut 40
3.6 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiringBranch 55 · SeekOut 35
3.0 weighted points to HiringBranch
8% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiringBranch 64 · SeekOut 35
2.3 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiringBranch 40 · SeekOut 25
1.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiringBranch 35 · SeekOut 25
1.5 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiringBranch 52 · SeekOut 45
0.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +18.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +18 beside that +18.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiringBranch minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | HiringBranch | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 35 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 60 | 40 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 35 | +20 | +3.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 45 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 25 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 35 | +29 | +2.3 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 34 (F) | +18 | +18.1 |
§ 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 | HiringBranch | SeekOut | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 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 28 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next