§ The result
Spark Hire leads SeekOut on all 7 criteria.
Spark Hire finishes 19 points clear of SeekOut under rubric v1.0 — 53 against 34 — across the Video interview and Sourcing cohorts. Spark Hire leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 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: Customer Documentation (SeekOut 35, Spark Hire 64) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (SeekOut 35, Spark Hire 58), the second being 24% of the weighted advantage Spark Hire 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
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
§ The record
SeekOut is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Spark Hire under Video interview AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Spark Hire is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | SeekOut | Spark Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 24% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SeekOut 35 · Spark Hire 58
4.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
18% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SeekOut 40 · Spark Hire 62
4.0 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SeekOut 35 · Spark Hire 60
3.8 weighted points to Spark Hire
8% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SeekOut 35 · Spark Hire 64
2.3 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SeekOut 45 · Spark Hire 62
2.0 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SeekOut 25 · Spark Hire 38
1.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SeekOut 25 · Spark Hire 30
0.8 weighted points to Spark Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -19.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -19.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SeekOut minus Spark Hire.
| Category | Weight | SeekOut | Spark Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 58 | -23 | -4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 62 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 35 | 60 | -25 | -3.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 62 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 38 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 35 | 64 | -29 | -2.3 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 53 (F) | -19 | -19.0 |
§ 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 | Spark Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 3 | 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 4 | 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; Spark Hire has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Spark Hire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 29 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain, and 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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