§ The result
Pillar leads SeekOut by 6 points.
Pillar scores 40 and SeekOut 34 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. Pillar leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Data Governance Disclosure, while SeekOut leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Pillar 50, SeekOut 35) and Data Governance Disclosure at 15% (Pillar 45, SeekOut 35), the second being 24% of the weighted advantage Pillar holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Pillar
Pillar (now "AI Interview Companion by Employ") is an interview intelligence platform that records and transcribes job interviews, generates AI interview guides and highlight clips, and surfaces candidate insights and interviewer-coaching recommendations.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
Pillar is filed under Screening 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 Pillar is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Pillar | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 23% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pillar 45 · SeekOut 35
1.5 weighted points to Pillar
20% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pillar 42 · SeekOut 35
1.4 weighted points to Pillar
8% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pillar 50 · SeekOut 35
1.2 weighted points to Pillar
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pillar 33 · SeekOut 25
1.0 weighted points to Pillar
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pillar 30 · SeekOut 25
0.8 weighted points to Pillar
18% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pillar 38 · SeekOut 40
0.4 weighted points to SeekOut
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pillar 48 · SeekOut 45
0.4 weighted points to Pillar
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +5.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +5.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pillar minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | Pillar | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 35 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 35 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 45 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 25 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 35 | +15 | +1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 34 (F) | +6 | +5.8 |
§ 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 | Pillar | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 12 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Pillar has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 7 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 Pillar, across 1 distinct source domain, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pillar last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next