§ The result
Phenom leads SeekOut on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Phenom finishes 18 points clear of SeekOut inside the Sourcing cohort under rubric v1.0: 52 against 34. Phenom leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so SeekOut is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Phenom leads is Post-Market Monitoring, Phenom 30 to SeekOut 25. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Phenom 75, SeekOut 40, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 35% of the weighted advantage Phenom holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Phenom
Talent experience platform combining a career site CMS, candidate CRM, internal mobility, and conversational AI for screening and scheduling.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
Phenom 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 Phenom is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Phenom | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2010 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Phenom 75 · SeekOut 40
6.3 weighted points to Phenom
20% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Phenom 55 · SeekOut 35
4.0 weighted points to Phenom
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Phenom 60 · SeekOut 35
3.8 weighted points to Phenom
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Phenom 60 · SeekOut 45
1.8 weighted points to Phenom
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Phenom 55 · SeekOut 35
1.6 weighted points to Phenom
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Phenom 30 · SeekOut 25
0.6 weighted points to Phenom
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 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 Phenom minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | Phenom | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 35 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 40 | +35 | +6.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 35 | +25 | +3.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 35 | +20 | +1.6 |
| 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 | Phenom | SeekOut | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 8 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Phenom has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 2 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 19 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 10 for Phenom, across 1 distinct source domain, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Phenom last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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