# SeekOut: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/seekout/
Covers: August 2025 to June 2026
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, 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

> SeekOut is on the AI hiring software map. We record 4 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated June 2026.

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: [seekout.com](https://www.seekout.com/about-us/).

## Facts

- Site: [seekout.com](https://www.seekout.com/)
- Category: Sourcing and talent intelligence
- Status: Active

## On the research maps

### [The AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-seekout)

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: [seekout.com](https://www.seekout.com/about-us/).

- Category: Sourcing and talent intelligence
- Price: Self-serve SeekOut Sourcing Core published at $179 per month billed monthly or $149 per month billed annually; enterprise plans sales-led.
- AI capabilities: Named agents, AI interviews, Fraud and identity, Screening and ranking, MCP and agent APIs, AI outreach, Rediscovery and AI sourcing
- Scale: Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed (Says it has raised over $189M including a $115M Series C (Tiger Global, Madrona); 750+ customers.)

Sources: [seekout.com](https://www.seekout.com/about-us/), [seekout.com](https://www.seekout.com/pricing/), [seekout.com](https://www.seekout.com/blog/category/product-company-news/), [seekout.com](https://www.seekout.com/blog/seekout-workspaces-faster-hiring/), [seekout.com](https://www.seekout.com/blog/introducing-seekout-sam/), [seekout.com](https://www.seekout.com/blog/seekout-mcp/) and [4 more on the map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-seekout).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### SeekOut goes self-serve and lands in ChatGPT

Launch, June 2026. 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.

Source: [Vendor release notes](https://www.seekout.com/release-notes). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-seekout).

### SeekOut launches SeekOut MCP

Launch, April 2026. 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.

Source: [Vendor release notes](https://www.seekout.com/release-notes). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-seekout).

### SeekOut opens Sam AI screening in early access

Launch, Feb. 18, 2026. 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.

Source: [Vendor help center](https://support.seekout.com/en/articles/13853182-sam-ai-screening-in-seekout). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-seekout).

### SeekOut launches Workspaces, an AI-guided hiring workflow

Launch, August 2025. 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.

Source: [Vendor release notes](https://www.seekout.com/release-notes). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-seekout).

## Methodology and corrections

How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology