Customer results: teams that chose hireEZ over SeekOut
3 in 4
head-to-head deals against SeekOut are won by hireEZ³
Global manufacturer
A global manufacturer chose hireEZ over SeekOut: 407 hires in six months and a 41% reply rate
The team picked hireEZ over SeekOut in a competitive evaluation and rolled it out to recruiters across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia. In six months, 407 of its hires were candidates the team found, reviewed, or engaged in hireEZ. Its outbound campaigns reach a 41% reply rate with an 86.4% open rate, and 86% of the candidates recruiters review qualify for the role.
407
hires in six months
41%
of candidates reply
86%
of reviewed candidates are a fit
More teams that chose hireEZ over SeekOut
Healthcare provider
Replaced SeekOut
Signed a three-year renewal and opened hireEZ to its whole team, with rediscovery running across its iCIMS database.
Staffing firm
Moved from SeekOut
Reached a 12% reply rate on hireEZ, up from about 5 to 7% before the move, with two-way Bullhorn sync.
Defense company
Chose hireEZ over SeekOut
Made 111 hires in one quarter, with 87% of 12,438 reviewed candidates qualifying and 4,549 verified contacts found.
Fleet technology company
Chose hireEZ over SeekOut
Brought its platform cost per hire to $839, and the number keeps falling as more of its hires come through hireEZ.
Across 2.7M+ recruiting emails sent through hireEZ
15.2%
Average reply rate
58.3%
Average open rate
17.6%
Reply rate on AI-assisted emails
Source: hireEZ 2025 Email Outreach Benchmark Report, campaigns sent January to June 2025.
hireEZ is the agent-native talent acquisition platform that runs on top of your ATS, and G2 reviewers rate it 4.6 out of 5 compared with SeekOut's 4.5.
A global manufacturer that chose hireEZ over SeekOut made 407 hires through hireEZ in six months.
A defense company that chose hireEZ over SeekOut made 111 hires in one quarter, and a global manufacturer runs a 41% campaign reply rate.
EZ Agent searches more than a billion profiles across 45+ platforms and your ATS, then sources, screens, engages, and schedules with recruiters approving every step.
hireEZ syncs two ways with 50+ ATS platforms, serves 70+ Fortune 500 companies, and holds SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certifications.
Why talent teams choose hireEZ over SeekOut
01
More than sourcing
EZ Agent runs research, sourcing, outreach, nurture, screening, and scheduling, with a talent CRM in the same platform, so a req moves from search to booked interview in one place.
02
Outreach on every channel
hireEZ sequences send email, SMS, and InMail, written by AI and approved by your recruiters.
03
Rated higher by reviewers
As of September 2026, G2 reviewers rate hireEZ 4.6 out of 5 compared with SeekOut's 4.5, and TrustRadius scores it 7.9 out of 10 compared with 6.2.
04
Two levels of autonomy
Run professional and specialized roles in hybrid autonomy, with recruiters directing EZ Agent, and high-volume roles in full autonomy, with recruiters setting the guardrails.
Who hireEZ is built for
Sourcing teams that want a tool that carries a candidate past the search to the booked interview.
Enterprise, defense, healthcare, and staffing teams that need clearance, clinical, and tech filters with contact data.
Teams that want two-way ATS sync, including Bullhorn, so sourced candidates never need to be copied by hand.
Here's where hireEZ gives talent teams more: agents that carry the work through to the interview, more ways to reach every candidate, and a talent CRM built into the same platform.
SeekOut
AI agents
EZ Agent sources, screens, engages, and schedules across your pipeline, with recruiter approval at every step
AI-assisted search, scoring rubrics, and personalized outreach
Outreach channels
Email, SMS, and InMail in one automated sequence
Personalized multi-step email campaigns
Talent CRM
Built in, with talent pools, temperature scoring, nurture campaigns, talent community pages, and event pages
Integrations with leading ATS and CRM platforms
Interview scheduling
Built in, including AI scheduling
Not detailed on public product pages
SeekOut column reflects the SeekOut Sourcing product page as of September 2026.
Reviewers rate hireEZ higher than SeekOut on G2 and TrustRadius.
G2
4.6vs. 4.5
hireEZ vs. SeekOut, out of 5
TrustRadius
7.9vs. 6.2
hireEZ vs. SeekOut, out of 10
G2 head-to-head
SeekOut
Overall rating
4.6 / 5
4.5 / 5
Ease of setup
9.4
8.8
Ease of admin
9.3
8.8
Good partner in doing business
9.4
9.0
Sourcing and candidate identification
9.4
9.0
Product direction
9.2
8.8
Meets requirements
9.1
8.7
Ease of use
9.1
8.8
Sources: G2, SeekOut vs hireEZ (g2.com/compare/seekout-vs-hireez); TrustRadius, hireEZ vs SeekOut (trustradius.com/compare-products/hireez-vs-seekout). Both pulled September 23, 2026.
The new EZ Agent
One agent, from job req open to job filled
Filling a role takes eight steps. On hireEZ, six of them run on EZ Agent today, the interview is shared, and the offer stays with your team. Every step runs in one platform, on top of the ATS you already own.
01
Research
Map the market and the talent pool
02
Source
Surface and rank matching candidates
03
Outreach
Run personalized multichannel sequences
04
Nurture
Keep warm candidates engaged over time
05
Screen
Qualify against the requirements
06
Schedule
Book interviews across every calendar
07
Interview
EZ Agent preps, your team runs it
08
Offer and hire
Your recruiter makes the call
Runs on EZ Agent todayAgent-assistedYour team's call
Hybrid autonomy · professional and specialized hiring
EZ Agent works alongside your recruiters
Your recruiters direct the work instead of doing it. They brief EZ Agent on a role, approve the plan and every shortlist, and what your best recruiter knows runs on every req, for every recruiter, including the one who joined last month.
Full autonomy · high-volume hiring
EZ Agent runs the req, your team sets the guardrails
For high-volume, high-repetition roles, hiring managers and candidates work with EZ Agent by phone and SMS. Recruiters become operators: they steer, approve, and handle the exceptions.
Workflow
End-to-end recruiting rails from research through interview. Every stage, sequence, and approval bends to how your team actually hires.
Data
More than a billion candidate profiles, recruiter behavior signals, and outreach conversion data in one record, so EZ Agent gets sharper with every req.
Integrations
Your ATS, HRIS, job boards, communication channels, and calendars stay. EZ Agent works across the stack you already run.
What EZ Agent runs for you
01
Sourcing on command
Brief EZ Agent like a sourcer. It searches a billion-plus profiles across 45+ platforms and comes back with qualified candidates and the reason behind every match.
02
Career sites and landing pages
Every open role gets its own branded, candidate-ready page, built in one conversation and feeding applicants straight into your pipeline.
03
Talent CRM and ATS enrichment
Every profile in your ATS stays current and every relationship stays warm. Teams fill 20 to 30% of roles from talent they already own.
04
Applicant review
EZ Agent reads every application the moment it lands, ranks it, and explains the ranking. Nothing is rejected without your recruiter.
05
Conversational AI screening
Every candidate gets a real screening conversation by voice or chat, with your questions and your bar, and your team decides who moves forward.
06
AI interview scheduler
When a candidate says yes, EZ Agent books it: calendars, panels, and reschedules, inside the rules you set.
07
Hiring intelligence
Plain-language answers on full-funnel hiring metrics, plus market data on rising skills, talent flows, and competitor pay.
Trusted by 70+ Fortune 500 companies, including Zoom, Lyft, Visa, and Mastercard.
What talent leaders say
"The new agentic platform has significantly raised the bar for ICP optimization and alignment, resulting in significantly improved candidate fit. The UI of the platform allows me to work across multiple searches in parallel with a high level of search iteration, making it much more efficient for me to multi-task across my workspace."
MH
Mauricio Hurtado, Global Talent Sourcing Lead, Americas, Zoom
"All of the talent acquisition details you need are in one platform. It's an amazing one-stop shop CRM where we're able to see the output of our sourcing, the output of our engagement, and report on all of the data and insights in one place."
AV
Angie Verros, Global Head of Talent Sourcing, Shield AI
"Before switching to hireEZ's CRM, we were juggling multiple platforms. Now it's all in one place. That saves time, and the team gets more time doing what they love: finding and engaging qualified talent."
CM
Chris Murdock, Founder and Chief Sourcing Officer, IQTalent
"I just think hireEZ is a better tool and it can do everything."
Talent Acquisition Operations Leader, global medical device company
hireEZ is built on agents from the ground up. Your recruiters direct the work, EZ Agent does it, and your team runs sourcing, outreach, and scheduling from one platform on top of the ATS you already own.
01
1B+ profiles across 45+ platforms, plus your ATS
EZ Agent searches more than a billion profiles across 45+ platforms, adds the candidates already in your ATS, and ranks every one by fit for the role. Tech, security clearance, U.S. healthcare, and diversity filters help teams fill their hardest roles. Teams that chose hireEZ over SeekOut name the relevance of the talent pool as their top reason.
02
Your ATS database starts producing hires
hireEZ refreshes past applicants with live contact and career data, then resurfaces the right ones for every new req. TrustRadius reviewers score hireEZ 9.0 for talent rediscovery, against 7.9 for SeekOut. Teams fill 20 to 30% of roles from talent they already own.
03
Agents you direct, from one command center
Brief EZ Agent on a role the way you'd brief a colleague. It comes back with a plan, your recruiter sharpens and approves it, and the agents source, screen, engage by email, SMS, and InMail, and schedule interviews across every open req. Recruiters approve every strategy and shortlist, and every agent action is logged and explainable.
Senior product designer, Seattle or remote. Fintech background a plus. Need a shortlist by Friday.
Here's my plan
1Source 45+ platforms and your ATS
2Screen for portfolio and fintech experience
3Six-step email and InMail sequence
4Book interviews on the hiring manager's calendar
EditApprove plan
Plan approved by Dana K. · logged 10:42 AM
04
One System of Actions on top of your ATS
Your ATS stays at the center, and hireEZ adds CRM, sourcing, outreach, and scheduling on top of it. Two-way sync with 50+ ATS platforms, including Workday, iCIMS, Greenhouse, SAP SuccessFactors, and Bullhorn, keeps every candidate current in both systems. Teams are deployed in weeks, with a dedicated customer education manager reviewing results every month.
Your team keeps recruiting the whole time. Your candidate history already lives in your ATS, so hireEZ picks it up through two-way sync, and a dedicated implementation manager times the move to your SeekOut renewal date.
01
Start on live reqs. Your recruiters brief EZ Agent on open roles from week one.
02
Connect your ATS. Two-way sync brings past applicants into hireEZ, refreshed with live data and ready for rediscovery.
03
Run both through your renewal. Your team works the same reqs in hireEZ while your SeekOut contract runs to its end date.
04
Go live. Your full team works in hireEZ, with live training and monthly results reviews.
hireEZ is the agent-native talent acquisition platform that runs on top of your ATS, combining sourcing across 1B+ profiles on 45+ platforms, a talent CRM, and EZ Agent in one system. G2 reviewers rate hireEZ 4.6 out of 5 compared with SeekOut's 4.5, and TrustRadius scores it 7.9 out of 10 compared with SeekOut's 6.2.
Yes. Talent teams evaluating SeekOut alternatives choose hireEZ for EZ Agent, which runs research, sourcing, outreach, nurture, screening, and scheduling on top of the ATS you already own, and for a candidate pool of more than a billion profiles across 45+ platforms. hireEZ syncs two ways with 50+ ATS platforms and serves 70+ Fortune 500 companies.
EZ Agent is the AI agent at the center of hireEZ. Filling a role takes eight steps, and six of them run on EZ Agent today: research, sourcing, outreach, nurture, screening, and scheduling. EZ Agent preps the interview and your team runs it, and the offer stays with your recruiter. It runs in hybrid autonomy for professional and specialized hiring and full autonomy for high-volume hiring.
G2 reviewers rate hireEZ higher than SeekOut on ease of setup (9.4 vs. 8.8), ease of admin (9.3 vs. 8.8), ease of use (9.1 vs. 8.8), meets requirements (9.1 vs. 8.7), and product direction (9.2 vs. 8.8). Reviewers also rate hireEZ higher as a partner in doing business, 9.4 compared with 9.0.
As of September 2026, G2 reviewers rate hireEZ 4.6 out of 5 compared with SeekOut's 4.5, and TrustRadius scores it 7.9 out of 10 compared with SeekOut's 6.2. hireEZ adds a talent CRM, multichannel outreach, and interview scheduling to sourcing in one platform.
hireEZ is built on agents that carry recruiting work from sourcing through scheduling. EZ Agent sources, screens, engages by email, SMS, and InMail, and schedules interviews on top of your ATS, while recruiters direct and approve the work. Teams choosing hireEZ over SeekOut most often cite the relevance of the talent pool, two-way ATS integration, and contact data.
Teams that chose hireEZ over SeekOut make more of their hires through one platform. A global manufacturer made 407 hires through hireEZ in six months with a 41% campaign reply rate, a defense company made 111 hires in one quarter with 87% of reviewed candidates qualifying, and a fleet technology company brought its platform cost per hire to $839.
hireEZ puts sourcing across 1B+ profiles, a talent CRM, outreach, scheduling, market insights, and EZ Agent in one platform, so teams consolidate separate sourcing, CRM, and scheduling tools into a single contract. Pricing is based on team size and the modules you choose, and a demo gets you a quote built for your team.
Yes, teams can run hireEZ and SeekOut side by side during an evaluation or through a SeekOut renewal date. A Fortune 500 retailer started this way and moved its whole sourcing team to hireEZ once it had compared results on its own roles.
Most teams are deployed on hireEZ in weeks. Recruiters start on live reqs in week one, the ATS connection brings past applicants in for rediscovery, and the full move is timed to the SeekOut contract end date.
Candidates your team already pushed into your ATS come into hireEZ through two-way sync, refreshed with live contact and career data. hireEZ then resurfaces the right ones for every new req.
Yes, hireEZ includes a talent CRM in the same platform recruiters source from. It covers talent pools with hot, warm, and cold temperature scoring, nurture campaigns by email, SMS, and InMail, talent community pages, event pages, and CRM reporting.
Yes, hireEZ includes security clearance search for defense and government recruiting. Defense and government teams that chose hireEZ over SeekOut use it to reach cleared candidates with live contact data.
Yes, hireEZ includes dedicated U.S. healthcare and tech sourcing filters. Staffing firms and enterprise teams that moved from SeekOut use them to fill clinical, engineering, and IT roles.
Yes, hireEZ includes diversity sourcing filters as part of its advanced search, alongside tech, healthcare, and scholar filters. Recruiters apply them inside the same search they use for every req.
hireEZ syncs two ways with 50+ ATS platforms, including Workday, iCIMS, Greenhouse, SAP SuccessFactors, SmartRecruiters, Lever, and Bullhorn. It also syncs email and calendar with Outlook and Gmail.
Yes, hireEZ offers two-way Bullhorn sync for staffing and recruiting firms. A staffing firm that moved from SeekOut chose hireEZ for this integration, which keeps sourced candidates and their activity current in Bullhorn.
EZ Agent runs the hiring pipeline under recruiter direction. Recruiters brief it on a role, approve the plan, and EZ Agent sources, screens, engages, and schedules across every open req. Recruiters approve every strategy and shortlist, and every agent action is logged and explainable.
EZ Agent searches more than a billion candidate profiles across 45+ platforms. It searches the candidates already in a team's ATS in the same pass.
Yes, recruiters can use hireEZ's Chrome extension alongside LinkedIn Recruiter. Because hireEZ searches 45+ platforms and provides contact data, many teams reduce how many LinkedIn Recruiter seats they need as sourcing moves to hireEZ.
hireEZ is built for enterprise and mid-market talent acquisition teams and staffing firms that source outbound and want AI agents running top-of-funnel work. Customers include more than 70 Fortune 500 companies, along with leading staffing firms, healthcare systems, and technology companies.
Yes, hireEZ is the AI-native recruiting platform formerly known as Hiretual, built by HireTeamMate, Inc.
Yes. Teams can start a free trial of EZ Agent at app.hireez.com and run it on live reqs, with no credit card required.
Using SeekOut today? See the difference on your own roles.
Bring two or three open reqs. We'll source them live in hireEZ and rediscover candidates from your ATS, so you can compare talent, contact data, and reply rates before your SeekOut renewal.
¹ Sources: hireEZ customer business reviews recorded in Gong (September 2023 to September 2026), Salesforce account records and win notes, and recorded customer calls. A team counts as moving from SeekOut only when SeekOut was the incumbent tool or primary competitor on a closed-won hireEZ deal. Cost per hire is annual hireEZ contract value divided by hires with hireEZ activity, as reported in each customer's business review. Reply rates are campaign reply rates reported in customer business reviews. Hires through hireEZ are hires the team found, reviewed, or engaged in hireEZ before they were hired. Customer stories are anonymized by industry. SeekOut capability descriptions come from SeekOut's public product pages as of September 2026. SeekOut is a trademark of its respective owner, and hireEZ operates independently of SeekOut. Platform capability claims (1B+ profiles, 45+ platforms, 7x more qualified candidates, 20 to 30% of roles filled from owned talent) come from hireez.com as of October 2026.
² Platform cost per hire counts only hireEZ subscription cost. SHRM's figure counts all recruiting costs, including recruiter salaries, job ads, agency fees, and tools. Source: SHRM 2025 Benchmarking Report, average non-executive cost per hire, released October 2025.
³ Salesforce closed opportunities from January 2024 to September 2026 where SeekOut was the primary competitor: 33 won and 11 lost to a competitor. Deals that ended without a decision, on budget, or on timing are excluded. Losses without a recorded reason were reviewed against Gong call notes and counted as competitive losses where a competitor was in the final decision.
