§ The result
SEEK leads SeekOut on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, SEEK (Screening) opens a 20-point lead on SeekOut (Sourcing), 54 to 34. SeekOut is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: SEEK takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is FRIA Support, SEEK 32 to SeekOut 25. The advantage SEEK holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (SEEK 70, SeekOut 35, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 37% of the weighted points SEEK gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
SEEK
SEEK runs employment marketplaces in Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia (SEEK, Jobstreet and Jobsdb), and its seekAi employer tools label and rank applicants as 'high-fit' using a model trained on millions of past hirer shortlisting decisions, target job ads at predicted high-fit candidates, and run AI voice or text pre-screens, recommended shortlists and reference checks through a feature called Assist.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
SEEK 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 SEEK is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | SEEK | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 1997 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SEEK 70 · SeekOut 35
7.0 weighted points to SEEK
15% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SEEK 60 · SeekOut 35
3.8 weighted points to SEEK
12% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SEEK 50 · SeekOut 25
3.0 weighted points to SEEK
8% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SEEK 64 · SeekOut 35
2.3 weighted points to SEEK
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SEEK 62 · SeekOut 45
2.0 weighted points to SEEK
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SEEK 32 · SeekOut 25
1.1 weighted points to SEEK
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +19.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +20 beside that +19.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SEEK minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | SEEK | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 35 | +35 | +7.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 25 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 35 | +25 | +3.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 25 | +25 | +3.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 35 | +29 | +2.3 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 34 (F) | +20 | +19.2 |
§ 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 | SEEK | SeekOut | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources 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% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
SEEK has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 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; some documentation or audit rows for SEEK sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 39 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for SEEK, across 3 distinct source domains, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SEEK last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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