§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads SeekOut on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 28 points between SmartRecruiters (ATS-integrated) and SeekOut (Sourcing): 62 (D) for SmartRecruiters, 34 (F) for SeekOut. SmartRecruiters leads every one of the 7 criteria and 6 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; SeekOut leads none. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Bias Audit Transparency (SeekOut 40, SmartRecruiters 78) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (SeekOut 35, SmartRecruiters 70), the second being 25% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters 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
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
SeekOut is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only SmartRecruiters is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | SeekOut | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SeekOut 35 · SmartRecruiters 70
7.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SeekOut 40 · SmartRecruiters 78
6.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SeekOut 35 · SmartRecruiters 62
4.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SeekOut 25 · SmartRecruiters 45
3.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SeekOut 25 · SmartRecruiters 48
2.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SeekOut 35 · SmartRecruiters 63
2.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SeekOut 45 · SmartRecruiters 62
2.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -27.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 27.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -28 beside that -27.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SeekOut minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | SeekOut | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 70 | -35 | -7.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 78 | -38 | -6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 45 | -20 | -3.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 35 | 62 | -27 | -4.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 62 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 48 | -23 | -2.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 35 | 63 | -28 | -2.2 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 62 (D) | -28 | -27.9 |
§ 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 | SeekOut | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | — | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
SeekOut has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 5 with a source URL, 4 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 SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 22 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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