§ The result
Lever leads SeekOut on all 7 criteria.
Lever finishes 15 points clear of SeekOut under rubric v1.0 — 49 against 34 — across the ATS-integrated and Sourcing cohorts. Lever leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Data Governance Disclosure among them; SeekOut leads none. Data Governance Disclosure is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Lever 58, SeekOut 35, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 24% of the weighted advantage Lever holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Lever
Lever is an AI-powered applicant tracking system and recruiting CRM that centralizes sourcing, candidate relationship management, AI candidate matching (Talent Fit), and hiring analytics for high-growth employers.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
Lever is filed under ATS-integrated AI, SeekOut 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 Lever is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Lever | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 24% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Lever 58 · SeekOut 35
3.4 weighted points to Lever
20% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Lever 52 · SeekOut 35
3.4 weighted points to Lever
12% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Lever 45 · SeekOut 25
2.4 weighted points to Lever
8% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Lever 58 · SeekOut 35
1.8 weighted points to Lever
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Lever 60 · SeekOut 45
1.8 weighted points to Lever
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Lever 32 · SeekOut 25
1.1 weighted points to Lever
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Lever 42 · SeekOut 40
0.4 weighted points to Lever
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +14.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +14.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Lever minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | Lever | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 35 | +17 | +3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 25 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 35 | +23 | +3.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 25 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 35 | +23 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 49 (F) | 34 (F) | +15 | +14.3 |
§ 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 | Lever | SeekOut | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate 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% | 2 | 0 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Lever 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; some documentation or audit rows for Lever sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 28 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Lever, across 2 distinct source domains, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Lever last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next