Every category where a model named SeekOut for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Talent intelligence	Performance and talent management	6%	7 of 77	13%	31	accepted challenger
AI recruiting assistants	Talent acquisition	2%	8 of 84	0%	13	accepted challenger
Recruiting CRM and sourcing	Talent acquisition	2%	9 of 88	3%	34	accepted challenger
HR AI assistants	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	37 of 119	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Workativ Assistant at 12%
Recruitment marketing and career sites	Talent acquisition	0%	65 of 81	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Teamtailor at 16%
Skills intelligence	Performance and talent management	0%	127 of 162	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by TalentGuard at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for SeekOut yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated SeekOut across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	4	0	5
GPT-5.4 mini	2	3	1	0	6
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	6	1	1	9
Perplexity Sonar	0	2	3	0	5
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	3	3	2	8
Mistral Small	0	3	4	1	8
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	4	5	1	10
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	5	0	5
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	3	3	1	8
Kimi K2	0	2	4	0	6
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	4	2	0	6
MiniMax M2.5	2	3	2	0	7

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct55 labels10

Paraphrase12 labelsNone

Comparative68 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained21 labels3

Scale-constrained20 labels1

Negative17 labels3not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative193 labels in all, every segment counted; 14 of the 19 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“the best choice is usually SeekOut if your main need is finding, sourcing, screening, and engaging professional/knowledge-worker candidates” GPT-5.4 mini · AI recruiting assistants · direct prompt · first choice

“If you want one platform for a typical mid-market B2B company, I'd start with SeekOut for external talent intelligence and sourcing.” GPT-5.4 mini · Talent intelligence · direct prompt · first choice

“I'd recommend starting with SeekOut or hireEZ as they specifically position themselves as talent intelligence platforms” MiniMax M2.5 · Talent intelligence · direct prompt · first choice

“I'd recommend starting with Lever (if you want all-in-one) or SeekOut (for specialized technical sourcing)” MiniMax M2.5 · Recruiting CRM · direct prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Avoid Eightfold or SeekOut unless you are at the upper end of the mid-market” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Talent intelligence · direct prompt · hard negative

“Avoid enterprise heavies like Eightfold/SeekOut ($800+/seat, Fortune 500 focus)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Talent intelligence · direct prompt · hard negative

“enterprise-focused with undisclosed, quote-based pricing — these are typically far outside a limited budget” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Skills intelligence · budget prompt · soft negative

“Data Integrity & Stale Databases (e.g., SeekOut, hireEZ)... users frequently complain about "stale data"” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Talent intelligence · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SeekOut, over the 193 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SeekOut was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Eightfold AI119 of 19336Not in the top three

Gem110 of 19323Not in the top three

hireEZ101 of 1935Not in the top three

Beamery71 of 1930Not in the top three

LinkedIn Recruiter54 of 1937Not in the top three

Pin50 of 1939Not in the top three

Phenom47 of 1931Not in the top three

Gloat47 of 1930Not in the top three

Findem41 of 1930Not in the top three

Metaview37 of 1932Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named SeekOut. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 161 of the 193 answers that named SeekOut and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

pin.com92

metaview.ai88

selectsoftwarereviews.com62

guideflow.com54

hiretruffle.com51

learn.g2.com44

g2.com41

noon.ai39

greenhouse.com33

leonar.app32

536 of the 536 domain citations in answers naming SeekOut came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

metaview.ai/resources/blog/talent-intelligence-platforms50

pin.com/blog/talent-intelligence-platforms48

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/best-candidate-sourcing-tools47

learn.g2.com/best-talent-intelligence-software40

guideflow.com/blog/talent-intelligence-software34

leonar.app/blog/best-talent-sourcing-platforms29

jobspipe.dev/talent-intelligence-platforms28

pin.com/blog/talent-intelligence-software26

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as SeekOut

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as SeekOut; a claim can dispute any of them.

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when SeekOut's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as SeekOut, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at seekout.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.