§ The result
TestGorilla leads SeekOut by 13 points.
TestGorilla sits 13 points above SeekOut under rubric v1.0 — 47 against 34 — with TestGorilla filed under Assessment and SeekOut under Sourcing. TestGorilla leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while SeekOut leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (SeekOut 35, TestGorilla 58) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (SeekOut 35, TestGorilla 52), the second being 27% of the weighted advantage TestGorilla holds across the 6 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
TestGorilla
TestGorilla is a pre-employment skills-assessment platform offering a large test library plus AI features for resume scoring, candidate sourcing, and one-way/conversational AI video interviews to support skills-based hiring.
§ The record
SeekOut is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, TestGorilla 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 TestGorilla is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | SeekOut | TestGorilla |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2017 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SeekOut 35 · TestGorilla 52
3.4 weighted points to TestGorilla
15% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SeekOut 35 · TestGorilla 56
3.1 weighted points to TestGorilla
8% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SeekOut 35 · TestGorilla 58
1.8 weighted points to TestGorilla
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SeekOut 45 · TestGorilla 60
1.8 weighted points to TestGorilla
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SeekOut 25 · TestGorilla 38
1.6 weighted points to TestGorilla
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SeekOut 25 · TestGorilla 30
0.8 weighted points to TestGorilla
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SeekOut 40 · TestGorilla 38
0.4 weighted points to SeekOut
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -12.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -12.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SeekOut minus TestGorilla.
| Category | Weight | SeekOut | TestGorilla | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 52 | -17 | -3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 35 | 56 | -21 | -3.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 60 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 38 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 35 | 58 | -23 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 47 (F) | -13 | -12.1 |
§ 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 | TestGorilla | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 14 | 5 | Sources 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; TestGorilla has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for TestGorilla sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
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 TestGorilla, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TestGorilla last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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