§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads SeekOut on all 7 criteria.
LinkedIn Recruiter finishes 23 points clear of SeekOut inside the Sourcing cohort under rubric v1.0: 57 against 34. SeekOut leads none of the 7 criteria, and LinkedIn Recruiter is ahead on 5 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (LinkedIn Recruiter 68, SeekOut 35) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (LinkedIn Recruiter 67, SeekOut 35), the second being 29% of the weighted advantage LinkedIn Recruiter holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter is LinkedIn's enterprise sourcing and candidate-management platform, whose Hiring Assistant add-on and AI-Assisted Search use AI to turn intake notes into qualifications, source and rank candidates, evaluate applicants against recruiter-set qualifications, and draft or send outreach.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
LinkedIn Recruiter and SeekOut are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only LinkedIn Recruiter is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | LinkedIn Recruiter | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2002 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 67 · SeekOut 35
6.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
LinkedIn Recruiter 62 · SeekOut 35
4.0 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · SeekOut 25
3.0 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 68 · SeekOut 35
2.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
LinkedIn Recruiter 66 · SeekOut 45
2.5 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
LinkedIn Recruiter 38 · SeekOut 25
1.9 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · SeekOut 40
1.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +22.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 22.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +23 beside that +22.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LinkedIn Recruiter minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | LinkedIn Recruiter | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 67 | 35 | +32 | +6.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 25 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 35 | +27 | +4.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 45 | +21 | +2.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 25 | +25 | +3.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 35 | +33 | +2.6 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 34 (F) | +23 | +22.4 |
§ 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 | LinkedIn Recruiter | SeekOut | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
LinkedIn Recruiter has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 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; some documentation or audit rows for LinkedIn Recruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next