SeekOut

What SeekOut does

SeekOut helps organizations recruit and redeploy talent using the latest agentic AI solutions. The platform offers two main paths: SeekOut Recruit, an AI recruiting platform that equips teams to source, screen, and engage talent at scale by combining outbound sourcing, inbound evaluation, and personalized outreach; and SeekOut Spot, an AI recruiting service where AI agents and expert SeekOut recruiters find, reach, and evaluate candidates. SeekOut aims to make recruiting faster, fairer, and more effective by augmenting human recruiters with AI, not replacing them. The company was founded in 2017 and is trusted by over 750 customers.

Products

• SeekOut RecruitAn AI recruiting platform designed to empower recruiters with intelligent tools to source, evaluate, and engage candidates at scale. It combines outbound sourcing, inbound evaluation, and personalized outreach in one platform.
• SeekOut SpotAn AI recruiting service that combines agentic AI with expert recruiters to deliver interview-ready candidates. It handles the heavy lifting of finding, reaching, and evaluating candidates, with human recruiters guiding and refining the process.
• SeekOut Recruit CoreA self-serve plan for individual recruiters getting started with AI-powered talent search, offering unlimited search, 1B+ profiles, AI search, filters, contact credits, exports, and email integration.
• SeekOut Recruit - SourcingA plan for sourcing teams focused on outbound sourcing, including all Recruit Core features plus increased contact credits, exports, custom power filters, advanced diversity filters, and dedicated customer success.
• SeekOut Recruit - Sourcing + IntegrationA plan for teams wanting external sourcing and ATS integration to rediscover talent, including all Sourcing features plus ATS rediscovery, unified search, recruiter usage reports, messaging analytics, and market intelligence.
• SeekOut Recruit - Full Recruiting FunnelAn end-to-end AI, integration, and support solution across the entire talent funnel, from sourcing and rediscovery to inbound active applicant evaluation and AI screening, with fully configurable options and agentic AI workflows.
• Agentic AI Sourcer (Spot)A per-role model within SeekOut Spot that delivers interview-ready candidates for specific roles through AI sourcing, personalized outreach, and screening against custom rubrics.
• Agentic AI Contract Recruiter (Spot)A per-contractor model within SeekOut Spot that provides dedicated AI-powered recruiting capacity, augmenting TA teams with contract recruiters for full-funnel support and increased productivity.
• AI Recruiting Agency (Spot)An outcome-aligned model within SeekOut Spot offering lower cost than traditional agencies with higher quality candidates, ideal for complex senior roles in Tech, AI, and GTM, with results-based fee structure.
• SeekOut SamAn inbound evaluation and AI screening tool that instantly reviews thousands of applicants, scores them against role requirements, and surfaces top talent with explainable decisions and audit trails.
• SeekOut MCPAn AI Assistant Integration that allows users to search, evaluate, and reach out to talent across all SeekOut data sources directly within AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot.

Key capabilities

• 1B+ candidate profiles
• AI-powered search
• Intelligent Search (beyond keywords)
• Inbound Evaluation (AI scores applicants)
• Job-Specific Workflows (AI-assisted search, automated rubrics)
• Outreach at Scale (personalized multi-touch campaigns)
• Rediscover & Evaluate (ATS silver medalists, past applicants)
• Talent Insights (visualize talent pools, labor market data)
• AI Screening (transcripts + evidence delivered)
• Agentic AI solutions
• AI-generated personalized messages
• Multi-step campaign sequences
• Track opens, replies, and engagement
• Automated candidate scoring rubrics
• Built-in recruiting best practices
• Semantic search understands intent
• 30+ smart filters for precise targeting
• Unified search across all talent pools
• AI Video Screening
• Workspaces (AI-Powered Hiring Command Center)
• Required Skills filtering in Smart Match
• Hidden Profiles filtering (avoid duplicate outreach)
• Scorecard criteria descriptions
• AI evaluation opt-out for Workspaces
• Bulk Submit for Evaluation
• Admin control for sequence email domain settings
• Self-service free trial
• Search across 7 talent verticals (Public, GitHub, Academic, Healthcare, Nursing, ATS, Internal Talent)
• 14 guided skill-based workflows (talent search, outreach drafting, competitive intelligence, diversity insights, market analysis)
• Workspace creation and candidate saving from MCP
• ATS integration (search hiring pipeline by stage, req, status from MCP)
• Expert Talent Pool
• AI-powered screening questions (adaptive)
• Explainable AI (plain-language match explanations)
• Compliance by Design (EEOC and OFCCP guidelines, auditable decision trails)
• Human-Centered AI (AI recommends, humans decide)
• Better Signal (assesses career progression, adjacent skills, industry context)
• Enterprise Ready (SOC 2 Type II, data encryption, audit trails, admin controls)
• Natural language talent search (within AI assistants)
• Market analysis and diversity breakdowns (within AI assistants)
• Score candidates and build ranked shortlists (within AI assistants)
• Draft outreach and export to ATS (within AI assistants)
• Public Profiles (1B+)
• GitHub Developers (40M+)
• Academic & Expert (97M+)
• Healthcare & Nursing (specialized)
• ATS Pipeline (your data)
• Cleared Talent (3.7M+ profiles with security clearances)

Use cases

• Sourcing talent
• Screening candidates
• Engaging talent
• Outbound sourcing
• Inbound evaluation of applicants
• Personalized outreach campaigns
• Finding hidden talent beyond keywords
• Processing thousands of inbound applicants quickly
• Creating role-specific workflows
• Rediscovering past applicants and silver medalists in ATS
• Visualizing talent pools and labor market data
• Making informed decisions about sourcing and competition
• Hiring for specific roles (e.g., GTM, Engineering, Business Critical)
• Reducing time-to-hire
• Lowering cost-per-hire
• Improving quality of hire
• Scaling best practices in recruiting
• Evaluating candidates for fit against criteria
• Generating search criteria from job descriptions
• Automating candidate scoring
• Tracking campaign engagement
• Uncovering forgotten talent in databases
• Re-engaging silver medalists automatically
• Keeping candidate profiles fresh
• Labor market analytics and trends
• Compensation benchmarking data
• Pipeline performance and analytics
• Hiring command center operations
• Avoiding duplicate outreach
• Managing candidate ownership
• Building and managing skill requirements
• Exporting candidates to ATS
• Streamlining AI evaluation workflows
• Configuring email domain settings for outreach
• Searching across multiple talent verticals
• Conducting competitive intelligence
• Analyzing diversity insights
• Performing market analysis
• Identifying security-cleared candidates
• Recruiting for cybersecurity analysts
• Recruiting for intelligence analysts
• Recruiting for defense contractors
• Recruiting for systems engineers
• Recruiting for program managers
• Recruiting for roles requiring government security clearances (DoD, IC, federal civilian agencies)
• Evaluating every applicant fairly
• Surfacing top talent instantly
• Screening candidates with AI-powered questions
• Assessing career progression and adjacent skills
• Comparing talent markets across cities
• Mapping competitor teams
• Analyzing diversity representation
• Accessing talent data from public profiles, GitHub, academic sources, healthcare, ATS, and cleared talent pools

AI approach

SeekOut uses agentic AI to augment human recruiters in sourcing, screening, and engaging talent. Their AI evaluates candidates, generates search criteria, crafts personalized outreach messages, and provides talent insights. They emphasize explainable AI, compliance by design, and human-centered decision-making. They also integrate with AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot.

Tech named: agentic AI, AI evaluation, AI screening, semantic search, AI-powered recommendations, Azure AI Services

Industries served

• Technology
• Healthcare
• Defense/Government
• Financial Services
• Manufacturing
• Retail
• Professional Services

What it says sets it apart

• Agentic AI solutions for recruiting
• Two paths to hiring: AI recruiting platform (Recruit) or AI recruiting service (Spot)
• 1B+ candidate profiles
• Faster time-to-hire (50% faster)
• Lower cost compared to traditional agencies (70% lower with Spot)
• AI evaluates every applicant same day
• Unified search across external sources and ATS
• Standardized workflows for repeatable performance
• AI Screening captures deeper signal
• Scalable outbound keeps pipeline moving
• Interview-ready candidates in 14 days (Spot)
• Transparent candidate packets (resume, profile evidence, screening transcript, explainable scoring)
• Self-serve and enterprise plans available
• Integration with leading ATS, CRM, and HCM solutions (Workday, iCIMS, Greenhouse, Lever, Avature, Beamery, Bullhorn, SmartRecruiters, Ashby, Phenom, SAP SuccessFactors, Gem, Jobvite, Talemetry, GR8 People, Crelate, Loxo, Invenias, Recruiterflow, TrackTalents, Oracle Taleo)
• SOC 2 Type II certified
• Compliance with global standards (GDPR, CCPA)
• Does not use client data to train AI models or sell to third parties
• All data encrypted in transit and at rest (AES-256)
• Explainable AI for candidate evaluation (plain-language explanations)
• Compliance by Design (EEOC and OFCCP guidelines, auditable decision trails)
• Human-Centered AI (AI recommends, humans decide)
• Goes beyond keywords to assess career progression, adjacent skills, industry context
• Specialized database of 3.7M+ security-cleared candidates
• Integration with popular AI assistants (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot) via MCP
• Natural language interaction for recruiting tasks within AI assistants
• Market intelligence and diversity breakdowns in seconds
• Access to diverse talent pools including GitHub, Academic, Healthcare, and Cleared Talent