§ The result
Hogan Assessments leads SeekOut on all 7 criteria.
Hogan Assessments sits 13 points above SeekOut under rubric v1.0 — 47 against 34 — with Hogan Assessments filed under Assessment and SeekOut under Sourcing. Hogan Assessments leads every one of the 7 criteria, SeekOut none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Bias Audit Transparency, Hogan Assessments 44 to SeekOut 40. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Hogan Assessments 62, SeekOut 35) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Hogan Assessments 50, SeekOut 35), the second being 24% of the weighted advantage Hogan Assessments holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Hogan Assessments
Hogan Assessments provides science-based personality assessments - chiefly the Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI), Hogan Development Survey (HDS), and Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI) - used to predict workplace performance for employee selection and development.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
Hogan Assessments 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 Hogan Assessments is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Hogan Assessments | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1987 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 24% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Hogan Assessments 50 · SeekOut 35
3.0 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
15% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Hogan Assessments 52 · SeekOut 35
2.5 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
8% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Hogan Assessments 62 · SeekOut 35
2.2 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Hogan Assessments 40 · SeekOut 25
1.8 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Hogan Assessments 36 · SeekOut 25
1.6 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Hogan Assessments 52 · SeekOut 45
0.8 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Hogan Assessments 44 · SeekOut 40
0.7 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +12.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +12.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Hogan Assessments minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | Hogan Assessments | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 35 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 44 | 40 | +4 | +0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 25 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 35 | +17 | +2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 45 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 25 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 35 | +27 | +2.2 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 34 (F) | +13 | +12.7 |
§ 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 | Hogan Assessments | 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% | 2 | 1 | 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% | 2 | 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% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Hogan Assessments has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 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 35 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Hogan Assessments, across 1 distinct source domain, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Hogan Assessments last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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