SeekOut is a Bellevue-based talent intelligence platform giving enterprise recruiting teams access to 1B+ candidate profiles with specialized search capabilities that go well beyond what general-purpose sourcing tools provide. Its superpower, consistently noted in user reviews, is diversity sourcing — advanced filters for gender, ethnicity, veteran status, and underrepresented groups, paired with AI search that understands context rather than keywords. SeekOut also has unusually deep coverage of specialized and hard-to-find candidates: security-cleared professionals, researchers, and technical talent sourced from patents, publications, and GitHub in addition to professional profiles. Beyond sourcing (the Recruit product), it offers a Grow product for internal talent mobility, skills profiling, and career pathing. Customers include Microsoft, General Mills, and Autodesk.
SeekOut
Talent intelligence for sourcing diverse and specialized candidates
Compliance
GDPR SOC 2
Key Features
- 1B+ profile database with specialized filters: Access to over 1 billion profiles including 3.7M+ security-cleared profiles and deep technical talent data sourced from GitHub, patents, and publications — going beyond LinkedIn-based candidate data.
- Intelligent search: AI-powered semantic search that understands candidate context beyond keywords, combined with advanced Boolean and attribute-based filters including diversity, clearance level, skill depth, and career signals.
- Inbound AI evaluation: Processes large volumes of inbound applications against defined role criteria and delivers qualified shortlists, with bias auditing and transparent, explainable AI scoring.
- DEI analytics and compliance tooling: Diversity pipeline tracking, third-party bias audits (most recently September 2025), EEOC/OFCCP compliance features, and a blind hiring mode to reduce evaluator bias.
- Candidate rediscovery: Surfaces qualified past applicants from the ATS using enriched, current profile data with AI scorecards for consistent evaluation.
- Labor market intelligence: Talent pool analytics, salary benchmarking, location and skill availability data for workforce planning ahead of opening roles.
Use Cases
- For diversity recruiting initiatives: A company with formal diversity hiring targets uses SeekOut’s specialized diversity filters to build underrepresented candidate pipelines for technical roles where diverse talent is hardest to find.
- For defense and cleared hiring: A defense contractor or company hiring for security-cleared roles uses SeekOut’s 3.7M+ cleared candidate database — a pool that LinkedIn Recruiter does not cover.
- For specialized technical hiring at scale: A company hiring 50+ engineers annually uses SeekOut’s patent, publication, and GitHub data to identify candidates with specific technical depth that resume keyword search misses.
Pricing MODELS
Saas subscription
Pricing Summary
SaaS subscription, custom enterprise pricing. Third-party reviews suggest annual costs starting around $12,000–$15,000 for basic access, ranging to $40,000+ for full enterprise feature sets. These estimates are not confirmed by SeekOut; contact sales for pricing.
Company Size Fit
Enterprise Mid-market
Technical Snapshot
API Available
Yes
LLM Provider
Proprietary
Open Source
No
Deployment Options
Cloud Saas