§ The result
Saville Assessment leads SeekOut on all 7 criteria.
Saville Assessment sits 14 points above SeekOut under rubric v1.0 — 48 against 34 — with Saville Assessment filed under Assessment and SeekOut under Sourcing. Saville Assessment leads every one of the 7 criteria, SeekOut none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Bias Audit Transparency, Saville Assessment 42 to SeekOut 40. Customer Documentation is the widest raw gap (Saville Assessment 60, SeekOut 35) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Saville Assessment 50, SeekOut 35), 22% of the weighted advantage Saville Assessment builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Saville Assessment
Saville Assessment publishes the Wave personality questionnaires, Swift aptitude tests and situational judgment tests. They are scored automatically against norm groups and delivered through the Oasys platform, the Wave Connect hiring platform (which uses AI to build role profiles from job descriptions) and a two-minute Screener that returns a fit band into the employer's ATS.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
Saville Assessment 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 Saville Assessment is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Saville Assessment | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 22% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Saville Assessment 50 · SeekOut 35
3.0 weighted points to Saville Assessment
15% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Saville Assessment 55 · SeekOut 35
3.0 weighted points to Saville Assessment
15% weight · 62% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Saville Assessment 40 · SeekOut 25
2.3 weighted points to Saville Assessment
8% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Saville Assessment 60 · SeekOut 35
2.0 weighted points to Saville Assessment
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Saville Assessment 38 · SeekOut 25
1.6 weighted points to Saville Assessment
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Saville Assessment 55 · SeekOut 45
1.2 weighted points to Saville Assessment
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Saville Assessment 42 · SeekOut 40
0.4 weighted points to Saville Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +13.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Saville Assessment minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | Saville Assessment | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 35 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 25 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 35 | +20 | +3.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 45 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 25 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 35 | +25 | +2.0 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 34 (F) | +14 | +13.4 |
§ 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 | Saville Assessment | SeekOut | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 34 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Saville Assessment has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 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 Saville Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 40 for Saville Assessment, across 2 distinct source domains, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Saville Assessment last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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