{
  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  },
  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"SeekOut: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/seekout/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/seekout/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/seekout.md",
  "title": "SeekOut: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "SeekOut is on the AI hiring software map. We record 4 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated June 2026.",
  "period": "August 2025 to June 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
  "company": {
    "id": "C4YHN2G",
    "slug": "seekout",
    "name": "SeekOut",
    "aliases": [],
    "site": "https://www.seekout.com/",
    "summary": "SeekOut sells an \"AI Recruiting Platform for Recruiters, Sourcers, and TA Leaders\": candidate search across 1B+ profiles plus the customer's ATS, outreach, applicant evaluation and AI screening. Enterprise TA teams buy it, with deep pools for engineers (GitHub), healthcare and security-cleared talent. It now pushes recruiting into the customer's own AI assistant through SeekOut MCP and an AI Coworker. SeekOut Spot is a separate agent-plus-recruiter service that delivers candidate slates.",
    "founded": null,
    "categories": [
      "talent-intel"
    ],
    "status": "active",
    "price_note": null,
    "update_channels": [],
    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
    "off_map": null,
    "merged_into": null,
    "category_names": [
      "Sourcing and talent intelligence"
    ]
  },
  "confirmed_product_launches": 0,
  "dated_product_launches": 0,
  "undated_launches": 0,
  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
  "count": 0,
  "launches": [],
  "launch_list": false,
  "indexed": true,
  "summary": {
    "text": "SeekOut sells an \"AI Recruiting Platform for Recruiters, Sourcers, and TA Leaders\": candidate search across 1B+ profiles plus the customer's ATS, outreach, applicant evaluation and AI screening. Enterprise TA teams buy it, with deep pools for engineers (GitHub), healthcare and security-cleared talent. It now pushes recruiting into the customer's own AI assistant through SeekOut MCP and an AI Coworker. SeekOut Spot is a separate agent-plus-recruiter service that delivers candidate slates.",
    "source": {
      "name": "seekout.com",
      "url": "https://www.seekout.com/about-us/"
    },
    "from": "record"
  },
  "maps": [
    {
      "map": "hiring-software",
      "title": "The AI hiring software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-seekout",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "SeekOut",
      "site": "https://www.seekout.com/",
      "category": "Sourcing and talent intelligence",
      "what": "SeekOut sells an \"AI Recruiting Platform for Recruiters, Sourcers, and TA Leaders\": candidate search across 1B+ profiles plus the customer's ATS, outreach, applicant evaluation and AI screening. Enterprise TA teams buy it, with deep pools for engineers (GitHub), healthcare and security-cleared talent. It now pushes recruiting into the customer's own AI assistant through SeekOut MCP and an AI Coworker. SeekOut Spot is a separate agent-plus-recruiter service that delivers candidate slates.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "seekout.com",
        "url": "https://www.seekout.com/about-us/"
      },
      "price": "Self-serve SeekOut Sourcing Core published at $179 per month billed monthly or $149 per month billed annually; enterprise plans sales-led.",
      "price_published": false,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Named agents",
          "AI interviews",
          "Fraud and identity",
          "Screening and ranking",
          "MCP and agent APIs",
          "AI outreach",
          "Rediscovery",
          "AI sourcing"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 3,
      "scale": "Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed (Says it has raised over $189M including a $115M Series C (Tiger Global, Madrona); 750+ customers.)",
      "founded": null,
      "founded_source": null,
      "fate": null,
      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "seekout.com",
          "url": "https://www.seekout.com/about-us/"
        },
        {
          "name": "seekout.com",
          "url": "https://www.seekout.com/pricing/"
        },
        {
          "name": "seekout.com",
          "url": "https://www.seekout.com/blog/category/product-company-news/"
        },
        {
          "name": "seekout.com",
          "url": "https://www.seekout.com/blog/seekout-workspaces-faster-hiring/"
        },
        {
          "name": "seekout.com",
          "url": "https://www.seekout.com/blog/introducing-seekout-sam/"
        },
        {
          "name": "seekout.com",
          "url": "https://www.seekout.com/blog/seekout-mcp/"
        }
      ],
      "more_sources": 4,
      "cross_listed": false
    }
  ],
  "off_map_url": null,
  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/seekout/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-06-01",
      "date_precision": "month",
      "title": "SeekOut goes self-serve and lands in ChatGPT",
      "summary": "SeekOut's June 2026 release notes say SeekOut Sourcing Core (Recruit Core) is live with self-serve monthly and annual plans, and SeekOut is now available inside ChatGPT. A self-service free trial opened in April 2026.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-seekout"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release notes",
        "url": "https://www.seekout.com/release-notes"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/seekout/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-04-01",
      "date_precision": "month",
      "title": "SeekOut launches SeekOut MCP",
      "summary": "SeekOut's MCP server lets AI assistants search SeekOut's talent data across 7 talent verticals and the customer's ATS pipeline, with guided workflows, workspace creation and candidate saving.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-seekout"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release notes",
        "url": "https://www.seekout.com/release-notes"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-3",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/seekout/#event-3",
      "on": "2026-02-18",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "SeekOut opens Sam AI screening in early access",
      "summary": "SeekOut made AI Screening with Sam available to all Recruit customers in Early Access. Candidates take a 15 to 20 minute AI interview on their own schedule, and Sam scores answers against the recruiter's criteria with summaries and full transcripts.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-seekout"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor help center",
        "url": "https://support.seekout.com/en/articles/13853182-sam-ai-screening-in-seekout"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-4",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/seekout/#event-4",
      "on": "2025-08-01",
      "date_precision": "month",
      "title": "SeekOut launches Workspaces, an AI-guided hiring workflow",
      "summary": "SeekOut launched Workspaces, \"an AI-enhanced guided workflow for recruiting\", with guided sourcing, instant job-description-to-candidate matching, scorecards, shortlist building and reconnection with ATS warm leads.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-seekout"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release notes",
        "url": "https://www.seekout.com/release-notes"
      }
    }
  ]
}