SeekOut is an agentic AI recruiting platform for talent sourcing. Recruiters search 1B+ candidate profiles from public sources including LinkedIn, GitHub, Stack Overflow, patents, and publications, then run AI outreach to people who are not actively job hunting. Six AI agents handle parts of the search, evaluation, and outreach workflow, and the vendor’s AI interviewer Sam screens applicants before the first live conversation with a person. HereBro lists it under AI Resume Screening.
What is SeekOut and who is it for?
SeekOut is built for recruiters and talent teams. The vendor’s pages say 750+ customers use it, with Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, and Netflix heading the named customer list. Six specialized AI agents carry the workflow: Rubric Creator builds hiring criteria, Candidate Finder searches across data sources, Profile Analyst evaluates candidate fit, Outreach Author crafts personalized messages, Market Researcher analyzes talent market data, and Engagement Tracker manages candidate interactions. Recruiters decide how much each agent does on its own. HereBro tracks tools like this across its AI tools directory.
How does the candidate search work?
You describe a role or paste a job description, and SeekOut searches 1B+ external profiles plus your ATS. The vendor’s sources list names GitHub (40M+ technical profiles), LinkedIn, Stack Overflow, professional databases, patents, and academic publications, plus 97M+ subject matter experts and 3.7M+ security-cleared candidates. Search filters cover skills, experience level, programming languages, open-source contributions, certifications, and security clearance; the sourcing page counts over 300 Power Filters, while the self-serve plan card lists 30+ filter types and the standard Power Filters. Searches accept Boolean syntax or plain language, and AI ranks candidates by fit using skills-based matching rather than keyword matching alone.
How does the AI outreach work?
The outreach tools target candidates who are not actively applying to jobs. The Outreach Author agent drafts personalized messages, campaigns run as multi-step sequences, and the email integration sends on your behalf. The self-serve plan includes 500 contact credits and 1,000 exports per month, and exports go to Excel, PDF, or your ATS.
What is SeekOut Sam?
Sam is SeekOut’s AI interviewer, part of the SeekOut Applicant Evaluation and AI Screening product. A recruiter sets the criteria, and Sam runs structured, rubric-based interviews asynchronously: candidates complete a 15 to 20 minute AI interview on their own schedule, and results come back with an AI summary, competency scores, role requirement checks, a transcript, and supporting evidence. The vendor also notes that Sam is built into SeekOut Recruit and can run as a standalone product, and that recruiters keep final decision authority. AI Screening became available to all Recruit customers starting February 18, 2026, was free through April 30, 2026 as part of the Early Access program, and transitions to approximately $2 per completed interview afterward, with the vendor pointing enterprise pricing questions to its customer success team.
How much does SeekOut cost?
- SeekOut Sourcing Core, also shown as Recruit Core, the self-serve plan: $149 per month paid annually upfront ($1,788/yr), or $179 per month billed monthly. The card lists unlimited search, 1B+ profiles, AI search, 30+ filters with the standard Power Filters, 500 contact credits/mo, 1,000 exports/mo, Excel, PDF, and ATS export, email integration with send on behalf, and AI multi-step campaigns.
- SeekOut Sourcing (Recruit): custom, billed annually, with per-seat pricing that adjusts with volume. Everything in Sourcing Core plus 750 contact credits/mo per seat, 5,000 exports/mo per seat, custom power filters, advanced inferred power filters, advanced diversity filters and insights, and SSO.
- SeekOut Sourcing + Integration (Recruit): custom, billed annually. Adds ATS rediscovery and silver medalists, unified search across 1B+ external profiles and your ATS, recruiter usage reports and benchmarks, messaging analytics, and market intelligence.
- SeekOut Full Recruiting Funnel (Recruit): custom, billed annually. The full platform: 1B+ profiles plus ATS plus inbound in one platform, inbound evaluation with AI screening alongside sourcing, job-specific workflows and rubrics, agentic AI workflows, and custom integrations.
A 14-day free trial covers the self-serve Sourcing Core tier. The trial needs no credit card, no sales call, and no contract commitment. If you are weighing tools before you commit, HereBro’s guide to comparing AI tools by industry covers the checks to run before you pick one.
Does SeekOut connect to your ATS and AI tools?
Yes. SeekOut integrates with Workday, Greenhouse, iCIMS, Lever, Taleo, SuccessFactors, and other major ATS platforms, with bidirectional data sync: source external candidates, rediscover past applicants, and push candidates into your ATS workflow. On the AI side, SeekOut MCP connects the platform to Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Amazon Quick, and to developer tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI; every search returns a clickable link into the full SeekOut UI. For automated workflows, the vendor documents the SeekOut Partner API with endpoints for search, contact data, profile refresh, and usage analytics, plus API credentials for scheduled jobs that run without a user signing in. For the fundamentals of a structured hiring process, HereBro’s skills based hiring guide covers the basics to standardize before interviews begin.
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost?
The published entry tier, Recruit Core, is $149 per user per month billed annually (or $179 monthly). Team plans and above are custom-quoted.
Where does the candidate data come from?
A database of over a billion candidate profiles pulled from LinkedIn, GitHub, Stack Overflow, patents, and publications.
What is SeekOut Sam?
An AI interviewer that runs structured, rubric-based async interviews before a human gets on a call.
Can SeekOut search from ChatGPT or Claude?
Yes. SeekOut MCP lets recruiters search and recruit from AI assistants including Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot. It searches seven talent verticals and returns a clickable link to the results in the SeekOut UI.
Does SeekOut integrate with my ATS?
Yes. The vendor names Workday, Greenhouse, iCIMS, Lever, Taleo, and SuccessFactors among supported ATS platforms, with bidirectional data sync into your workflow.
Is there a free trial?
Yes. A 14-day free trial covers the self-serve Sourcing Core tier. No credit card and no contract commitment, per the vendor’s pricing and trial pages.
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