Company profile
SeekOut AI recruiting features, agents and launches
seekout.com · Sourcing and talent intelligence
The short answer
The map puts SeekOut in sourcing and talent intelligence, from its own headline, "AI Recruiting Platform for Recruiters, Sourcers, and TA Leaders" [1]. Its core hiring stages are Source and Screen [2]. Since May 2025 the map dates 4 events for SeekOut, 4 of them product launches [2]. The latest launch is "SeekOut goes self-serve and lands in ChatGPT", dated June 2026 [3].
| SeekOut | |
|---|---|
| Category | Sourcing and talent intelligence [1] |
| Core stages | Source and Screen [2] |
| Partial stages | Interview and Report [2] |
| AI capabilities sold | Named agents, AI interviews, Fraud and identity, Screening and ranking, MCP and agent APIs, AI outreach, Rediscovery, AI sourcing [2] |
| Agent or always-on launches since May 2025 | 1 [2] |
| Scale | Tier 3, funded challenger. Says it has raised over $189M including a $115M Series C (Tiger Global, Madrona); 750+ customers. [2] |
| Price on record | Self-serve SeekOut Sourcing Core published at $179 per month billed monthly or $149 per month billed annually; enterprise plans sales-led. [2] |
| Site | https://www.seekout.com/ |
What SeekOut sells
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. [1][2][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
Its AI. Agentic sourcing and AI Recommendations in SeekOut Sourcing (Recruit); Sam (Applicant Evaluation and AI Screening) with an AI recruiter agent that runs rubric-based async screens; SeekOut MCP for Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Amazon Quick; SeekOut AI Coworker in early access; SeekOut Spot agentic recruiting service. [2]
The AI capabilities it sells today, as the map reads its site: named agents, AI interviews, fraud and identity, screening and ranking, MCP and agent APIs, AI outreach, rediscovery and AI sourcing [2].
Where SeekOut fits in hiring
Core means the product is built on that stage of hiring. Partial means the stage is there but secondary. Not found means the map did not find it on SeekOut’s own site.
| Stage | SeekOut | What the stage covers |
|---|---|---|
| Source | Core | Find and attract candidates: sourcing, job ads, career sites, CRM, outreach. |
| Screen | Core | Decide who moves on: resume review, matching, chat screening, AI interviews, assessments. |
| Interview | Partial | Run the interviews: scheduling, interview intelligence, notes, scorecards. |
| Hire | Not found | Close and start: offers, background checks, onboarding, compliance, HR records. |
| Report | Partial | Report on hiring and the workforce: recruiting analytics, people analytics, workforce planning. |
The map flags SeekOut for technical hiring and compliance, from its own pages [2].
The map’s fit note: Sources 40M+ GitHub developers and security-cleared candidates for defense and government; Sam screening covers technical and blue-collar roles. [2]
Every dated event since May 2025
The map dates 4 events for SeekOut, newest first [2]. Each links to the page that prints its date.
- June 2026. SeekOut goes self-serve and lands in ChatGPT. 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. Assistive, live. [3]
- April 2026. SeekOut launches SeekOut MCP. 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. Assistive, live. [3]
- Feb. 18, 2026. SeekOut opens Sam AI screening in early access. SeekOut made AI Screening with Sam available to all Recruit customers in Early Access. Agent, beta. [13]
- August 2025. SeekOut launches Workspaces, an AI-guided hiring workflow. 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. Assistive, live. [3]
Scale and ownership
The map puts SeekOut in scale tier 3, funded challenger. Its basis is this: Says it has raised over $189M including a $115M Series C (Tiger Global, Madrona); 750+ customers. [2]
The map records $189M raised in total. The last round it records: Series C, $115M (date not printed on vendor page). [4]
On the map
SeekOut is one of 21 companies in sourcing and talent intelligence on the AI hiring software map [2]. The company profiles list every company on the map with a profile.
What this profile does not cover
Hire not found on its site
The map did not find a product for the Hire stage on SeekOut's own site. The map defines that stage this way: Close and start: offers, background checks, onboarding, compliance, HR records.
Not flagged for hourly hiring
The map flags a company for hourly, technical or compliance-heavy hiring only when its own pages say so. SeekOut's pages did not, as the map read them.
Events before May 2025
The map dates events from May 2025 on. Earlier launches and deals are not on this page.
We did not test the product
This profile is built from SeekOut's own pages and dated announcements, as recorded on the map. We did not use or test the product.
Questions people ask
What does SeekOut sell?
The map puts SeekOut in sourcing and talent intelligence [1]. 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. [2]
Has SeekOut launched an AI agent?
Yes. The map labels 1 agent or always-on launch from SeekOut since May 2025 [2]. The latest is "SeekOut opens Sam AI screening in early access" (beta), dated Feb. 18, 2026 [13].
How big is SeekOut?
The map puts SeekOut in scale tier 3, funded challenger. Says it has raised over $189M including a $115M Series C (Tiger Global, Madrona); 750+ customers. [2]
Does SeekOut publish its prices?
Yes, at least in part, as the map records it. Its price note: Self-serve SeekOut Sourcing Core published at $179 per month billed monthly or $149 per month billed annually; enterprise plans sales-led. [2]
Which companies are comparable to SeekOut?
On the map, other companies in sourcing and talent intelligence with profiles include Eightfold AI, Phenom and Juicebox.
Sources
- seekout.com/news/seekout-appoints-bala-vishwanath-as-chief-marketing-officer. seekout.com. Read .
- SeekOut on the AI hiring software map. Newsprint. Read .
- SeekOut launches Workspaces, an AI-guided hiring workflow. Vendor release notes. Read .
- seekout.com/about-us. seekout.com. Read .
- seekout.com/pricing. seekout.com. Read .
- seekout.com/blog/category/product-company-news. seekout.com. Read .
- seekout.com/blog/seekout-workspaces-faster-hiring. seekout.com. Read .
- seekout.com/blog/introducing-seekout-sam. seekout.com. Read .
- seekout.com/blog/seekout-mcp. seekout.com. Read .
- seekout.com/blog/agentic-ai-recruiting-leveled-up-with-seekout. seekout.com. Read .
- seekout.com/blog/seekout-names-co-founder-john-tippett-president. seekout.com. Read .
- madrona.com/congratulating-anoop-gupta-and-welcoming-sean-thompson-as-seekouts-next-ceo. madrona.com. Read .
- SeekOut opens Sam AI screening in early access. Vendor help center. Read .