§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads SEEK by 8 points.
SmartRecruiters scores 62 (D) and SEEK 54 (F) under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 3 to 2 in favour of SmartRecruiters, with 2 level: SmartRecruiters is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and SEEK on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (SEEK 40, SmartRecruiters 78) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 75% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 3 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
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
§ The record
SEEK is filed under Screening AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | SEEK | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 1997 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SEEK 40 · SmartRecruiters 78
6.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SEEK 32 · SmartRecruiters 45
1.9 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SEEK 60 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SEEK 50 · SmartRecruiters 48
0.2 weighted points to SEEK
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SEEK 64 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.1 weighted points to SEEK
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -8.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -8 beside that -8.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SEEK minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | SEEK | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 70 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 78 | -38 | -6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 45 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 48 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 63 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 62 (D) | -8 | -8.8 |
§ 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 | SEEK | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 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 | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
SEEK has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SEEK and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 43 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for SEEK, across 3 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SEEK last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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