§ The result
Sapia.ai leads SeekOut on all 7 criteria.
Sapia.ai finishes 22 points clear of SeekOut under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 34 — across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. Sapia.ai leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; SeekOut leads none. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Sapia.ai 70, SeekOut 35, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 32% of the weighted advantage Sapia.ai holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Sapia.ai
Structured, text-based chat interview that scores candidates on personality (HEXACO) and competency traits - with no video, audio, or demographic data used.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
Sapia.ai 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 Sapia.ai is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Sapia.ai | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2013 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Sapia.ai 70 · SeekOut 35
7.0 weighted points to Sapia.ai
15% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Sapia.ai 62 · SeekOut 35
4.0 weighted points to Sapia.ai
12% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Sapia.ai 50 · SeekOut 25
3.0 weighted points to Sapia.ai
18% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Sapia.ai 52 · SeekOut 40
2.2 weighted points to Sapia.ai
8% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Sapia.ai 62 · SeekOut 35
2.2 weighted points to Sapia.ai
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Sapia.ai 62 · SeekOut 45
2.0 weighted points to Sapia.ai
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Sapia.ai 35 · SeekOut 25
1.5 weighted points to Sapia.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +21.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 21.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +22 beside that +21.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Sapia.ai minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | Sapia.ai | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 35 | +35 | +7.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 40 | +12 | +2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 35 | +27 | +4.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 25 | +25 | +3.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 35 | +27 | +2.2 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 34 (F) | +22 | +21.9 |
§ 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 | Sapia.ai | 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% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 16 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Sapia.ai has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 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 Sapia.ai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 29 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Sapia.ai, across 2 distinct source domains, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Sapia.ai last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next