§ The result
SHL leads SeekOut on all 7 criteria.
SHL finishes 17 points clear of SeekOut under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 34 — across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. SHL leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 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 (SeekOut 35, SHL 60, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 31% of the weighted advantage SHL holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
Vendor profile
SHL
SHL is a global talent-assessment provider offering AI-scored cognitive ability, personality, behavioral, situational-judgement, coding, and video-interview assessments that score, rank, and recommend candidates for hiring and development decisions.
§ The record
SeekOut is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, SHL under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only SHL is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | SeekOut | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2017 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SeekOut 35 · SHL 60
5.0 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SeekOut 35 · SHL 58
3.4 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SeekOut 35 · SHL 60
2.0 weighted points to SHL
18% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SeekOut 40 · SHL 50
1.8 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SeekOut 25 · SHL 40
1.8 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SeekOut 45 · SHL 58
1.6 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SeekOut 25 · SHL 30
0.8 weighted points to SHL
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -16.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SeekOut minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | SeekOut | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 60 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 35 | 58 | -23 | -3.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 58 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 40 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 35 | 60 | -25 | -2.0 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 51 (F) | -17 | -16.4 |
§ 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 | SeekOut | SHL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
SeekOut has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 5 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; SHL has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 28 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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