SeekOut Release Notes
The latest product updates and improvements from SeekOut.
2025
Workspace Superpowers – November 2025
Profile Flyouts Are Live
Profiles display as compact summaries across Workspace views. You can now expand them into flyouts with navigation, status modifications, and keyboard shortcuts.
Additional Improvements
- Workspace names now appear in Search History
- AI query generation detects employer info
- Setup Wizard preserves search copies
- Evaluations has a “Shortlist All Matches” banner
- Recommended Actions for sharing
- Profile export from the Evaluate step
New Features
- Saved Searches show timestamps
- Org Admins can control activation emails
Workspace Enhancements & Search History – October 2025
- Workspace delete confirmation dialog added
- Search History captures workspace activities (searches, exports, contact requests)
- “Your ATS” profiles can be exported back to integrated ATS/CRM
- Security Clearance Power Filter shows date ranges only for inferred clearance options
People Insights, Bulk Evaluation & Bespoke Sequences – September 2025
People Insights in Workspaces
People Insights are now live in Workspaces (bar chart icon).
Automatic Bulk Evaluation
Submit up to 500 top-matching profiles via cross-channel search “Evaluate Top Matches.”
Bespoke Sequences for Outreach
“Create Outreach with AI” now offers options for one sequence for all candidates or a unique sequence per candidate. You can also edit a Sequence after it has started.
SeekOut Workspaces Launch – July & August 2025
SeekOut Workspaces
SeekOut Workspaces launched – an AI-enhanced guided workflow for recruiting.
Key Capabilities
- Step-by-step guided sourcing
- Match candidates to JD instantly
- Scorecards to evaluate
- Build shortlists in minutes
- Reconnect with ATS warm leads
Data & Filters
- Nursing Talent Pool data refreshed
- 25+ Power Filters refreshed (Insurance, Layoffs, Fortune 500, Semiconductor, SaaS, HR Tech, etc.)
Self-Service Usage Reporting & Outreach Sharing – June 2025
Self-Service Usage Reporting
- On-demand reporting
- Deeper insights by team/recruiter
- Flexible filters
- Automated monthly emails
Outreach Sequence Sharing
Teams can now share outreach templates for consistent messaging across the organization.
Expanded Templates & Optimized Contact Ranking – May 2025
- Expanded Default Sequence Templates – 4 new templates added
- Optimized Contact Ranking – resume email prioritized as best source
New Power Filters – April 2025
New Power Filters added:
- Europe’s 50 Largest Banks
- Largest Consulting Companies
- Companies with Recent Layoffs
- Wealth Management Firms
- Venture Capital Firms
Power Filters Logic & Redesigned Search – March 2025
Power Filters AND/OR Logic
Power Filters now support an AND/OR logic toggle for more flexible filtering.
Redesigned Start Search Page
- Improved search box
- Expandable input
- Easier sub-pool access
- Enhanced saved searches
General performance improvements and bug fixes.
Introducing SeekOut Spot – February 2025
SeekOut Spot
Introducing SeekOut Spot – an agentic AI recruiting service combining AI with expert human recruiters.
- WGLL rubric creation from JD + 30-min intake
- Curated slates of 5-10 qualified candidates in 1-2 weeks
- Human recruiters validate AI matches
- Sourcing reduced from ~30 days to 3 days
2024
Improved Candidate Selection Experience – December 2024
Improved Candidate Selection Experience – an alert now appears before navigating away when candidates are selected, preventing lost selections.
Revamped Campaign Stats Dashboard – November 2024
Revamped Campaign Stats dashboard with:
- Streamlined filtering
- Clear metrics
- Visual cues for engagement
- Complete campaign visibility
Candidate Outreach & Applicant Review Updates – October 2024
Candidate Outreach Campaign Updates
- New flow to start campaigns
- Manage/edit templates
- Simplified email editor
Applicant Review UX
- Referrals indicator
- Multiple applications detection
- Custom application questions
New Power Filters
- Data Centers
- Health Systems
- Power Plants
Cross-channel Search & Internal Mobility – September 2024
- Cross-channel Search – search across multiple talent pools simultaneously
- ATS integration for silver medalists
- Internal Mobility for HRIS-integrated organizations
Outreach Dashboard Updates – July 2024
- Consolidated dashboard for campaign stats
- Global vs local campaign settings
- Add prospects to different projects
SeekOut Assist Conversational Search – April 9, 2024
SeekOut Assist Conversational Search
Natural language search in Smart Match mode.
New Search Landing Page
Simplified interface with multiple input methods.
Bug fixes.
Team Admin Updates – March 12, 2024
- Filter by license type
- Search by name/email
- Filter usage report before download
2023
Updated Contact Retrieval UI & Activity Center – November 10, 2023
- Updated UI for Contact Retrieval – continue working during retrieval
- New Activity Center and History Page
- Email notifications for 10+ profile requests
SeekOut Assist GA & Pipeline Insights – August 8, 2023
SeekOut Assist GA
SeekOut Assist is now generally available – ChatGPT for recruiters. Go from JD to qualified candidates in moments. Personalized emails at scale.
Pipeline Insights GA
- Manager View
- Recruiter View
- Funnel View
Healthcare Minimize Filter & Nursing Pool Update – July 26, 2023
- Healthcare – Minimize Filter added
- Nursing pool consolidated (removed Current Title and Nurse Title filters, use License Type instead)
Smart Match Filter Customization – June 27, 2023
- Smart Match filter customization – add, reorder, remove filters with persistence
- AI Matching removed from left nav (Smart Match replacement)
Minimize Candidates Filter Update – June 13, 2023
- “Minimize Candidates I’ve Seen” filter now searches any org project
- AI Matching removal advance notice
Insights & Project Permissions – May 31, 2023
- Insights disambiguation (People Insights vs talent market)
- Project upload permissions expanded to editors
Smart Match Drag-and-Drop & Projects Update – May 16, 2023
- Smart Match drag-and-drop between required/preferred skills
- Projects select all/minimized for bulk action
- Healthcare pool name/banner updates
- AI Matching removal notice
Contact Info & Location Filter Updates – May 2, 2023
- Contact info status modal
- Location filter quick-add
- AI Matching removal notice
Smart Match Advanced OR Statements – April 4, 2023
Smart Match advanced OR statements for skills – combine similar skills and create OR statements via the link icon.
Healthcare NPI Profile Card Enhancements – March 7, 2023
Healthcare NPI profile card enhancements:
- Office phone
- Address
- Certifications
- Licenses
- Awards highlighted in yellow
Smart Match Launch & Combined Healthcare Pool – February 7, 2023
Smart Match Launch
Smart Match launch – intuitive non-Boolean searching.
Combined Healthcare Talent Pool
- Nursing
- Providers with NPI
- Other healthcare (14M profiles)
Additional Updates
- Custom Power Filters for Nursing
- SmartRecruiters Applicant Review – direct ATS linking, search across all hiring stages
Applicant Review Redesign – January 10, 2023
Applicant Review redesign – edit job criteria and review applicants on the same page.
2022
New Power Filters Including Y Combinator – December 20, 2022
New Power Filters including Y Combinator companies.
Navigation & Action Bar Refresh – December 6, 2022
- Top Navigation customizable talent pools
- Action Bar refresh
- Previous Company/Title charts
- Updated Power Filters
- “Inbound Talent” renamed to “Applicant Review”
SeekOut for Healthcare Launch – November 1, 2022
SeekOut for Healthcare launch – 14M+ licensed nursing/healthcare professional profiles.
- Nursing talent pool
- Advanced filtering
- Email campaigns
- USPS mail
- Current contact info
Diversity Labels & UI Updates – October 26, 2022
- Diversity label “Female” changed to “Women”
- Company size filter up to 20,000
- Account menu relocated
- Search field removed from top
Project Improvements – September 27, 2022
- Project hover shows user/date
- Project table search
- Delete/rename saved searches
Experience Filter & Nav Updates – September 7, 2022
- Years of experience filter enhanced (dropdown, 20+ years)
- Left nav updates
- Project search in dropdown
- “Added by” filter
Smart Search Highlights & Filter Redesign – August 23, 2022
- Smart Search Highlights (green for exact matches, blue for related)
- Filter Action Bar redesign
- Minimize Filter expanded options
- Messaging campaign confirmation
Project Table Sort & Filter – August 9, 2022
- Project table sort/filter
- Project/Campaign visibility for all SKUs
Inbound Talent Launch – July 26, 2022
Inbound Talent launch – search capabilities for applicant review with ATS integration.
Project Action Bar & Healthcare Pool – July 13, 2022
- Project Action Bar with sort
- Healthcare Talent Pool launch
Greenhouse Prospect Pool Export – June 28, 2022
Greenhouse Prospect Pool export (Ingestion and Harvest APIs).
Time Zone Filter & Power Filter Updates – June 14, 2022
- Time zone filter (US)
- Power filter updates (clearances, layoffs, Fortune 500, work authorization)
- New Left Nav Bar
- Select input improvements
Export Order Preservation – May 24, 2022
Export now maintains candidate order.
ML-Ranked Email & Greenhouse CRM – May 10, 2022
- ML-ranked best email address
- Project owner info
- Greenhouse CRM prospect pool vs job
- Experience/Education filters for internal talent
Experience Filter & Email Reporting – April 26, 2022
- Exclude “past” in Experience filter
- Consistent 3-way toggle
- Report bad emails
- Keyword line breaks
Filter Favoriting – April 12, 2022
Filter Favoriting – favorites section for Power Filters.
Experience & Education Super Filters – March 29, 2022
Experience/Education “Super Filters” combining Company+Title+Years and School+Degree+Major.
GitHub Refresh & Bulk PDF Exports – March 1, 2022
- GitHub refresh +10M profiles, 34% increase, 80% more female
- Expert data refresh
- Bulk PDF exports
- Save As for Insights Reports
Bias Reducer – Company Name Redaction – February 15, 2022
Bias Reducer – Company Name redaction.
Clear Filter & Export Updates – February 1, 2022
- Clear Filter button
- Export updates
Cross-team Project/Campaign Visibility – January 18, 2022
Cross-team Project/Campaign visibility (Enterprise only).
2021
SOC 2 Type 2 Compliance – September 16, 2021
SOC 2 Type 2 compliance achieved. Five criteria:
- Security
- Availability
- Processing Integrity
- Confidentiality
- Privacy
Multi-Channel Messaging Sequences – May 3, 2021
Messaging update – multi-channel sequences:
- Email, phone, LinkedIn channels
- Message timing control
- Edit/preview per candidate
- Revamped templates
- Simplified setup
Massive Profile Expansion – February 17, 2021
140M+ new profiles added:
- 128M public profiles
- 4M GitHub profiles
- 7M expert profiles
Diversity improvements:
- 20% more African-American
- 38% more female
- 58% more cleared candidates
- Expert Prominence filter
- North America combined search
2020
Dark Mode, Diversity Filters & More – December 15, 2020
- Dark Mode
- AND/OR Diversity Filters
- More bias reduction controls
- Simplified admin
- Startup Power Filters
- Schedule-send messaging
- File attachments
- Taleo ATS Rediscovery
- Multiple ATS/CRM integrations
- 446M candidates
Efficiency Improvements & AI Updates – September 13, 2020
Efficiency
- Rubik font
- Left nav
- Unified search
- Salary display
- Faster search
AI
- Streamlined AI Matching
- Candidate Cloning
- Bulk enrichment
UX
- New dashboard
- Redesigned Power Filters
- Customizable filters
Diversity Sourcing & Blind Hiring Mode – August 21, 2020
Diversity sourcing improvements:
- Black/African American filter doubled
- Asian filter added
- Expanded availability
- Improved accuracy
- 5x more candidates than other tools
- Blind Hiring Mode
Enhanced Clearance Filters GA & Expert Search – July 8, 2020
- Enhanced Clearance Filters GA
- Expert search refresh (+8.3M to 85.1M)
Contact Info
- 100M US emails
- 52M Mexican phones
- 30M international phones
- 27M international emails
- 90M social profiles
New UI preview.
Enhanced Clearance Filters – June 25, 2020
Enhanced Clearance Filters:
- 5x more results
- 12 precise levels
- Explainable AI
- 1.9M cleared candidates
Referrals, Layoffs Filter & Platform Expansion – May 21, 2020
- Referrals
- Companies with recent layoffs filter
- 434M candidates
- GitHub Discussions
- Expert expansion to Social Sciences/Economics
- Credit-Pooling 5,000/month
- Team Administration
- ATS: SmartRecruiters/Beamery
- Email Playbooks
- Send on Behalf
Chrome Extension Redesign – February 10, 2020
- Chrome Extension redesign with GitHub/LinkedIn integration
- Admin UX improvements
- GitHub email algorithm improvements
2019
Contact Info Launch & AI Email Personalization – November 4, 2019
Contact info launch:
- Personal emails
- Mobile phones
- Social links
AI-powered outreach:
- Email personalization
- Optimal send times
- Multi-step campaigns
Unified Profiles & ATS Rediscovery – September 23, 2019
- Unified Profiles
- More Likely to Move filter
- Export Insights to Excel
- Personalized GitHub outreach
- ATS Rediscovery
- Referrals
Unified Profiles Deep Dive – August 22, 2019
Unified Profiles deep dive – GitHub, papers, patents integration. 160+ additional candidates for Nashville iOS example.
Custom Blind Hiring Mode – July 19, 2019
Custom Blind Hiring Mode pictures. Bias reduction examples.
Global Expansion to 423M Candidates – July 17, 2019
Global expansion to 423M candidates worldwide. Region selector.
SeekOut Robot – June 10, 2019
SeekOut Robot – query generation from JD, Boolean compatibility, feedback loop learning.
2018
People Insights Launch – January 9, 2018
People Insights launch – data from 100M+ US professionals. Three benefits:
- Strategic talent advisor
- Find candidates faster
- Outsmart competition
Sourcing Assistant Chrome Extension – January 30, 2018
Sourcing Assistant Chrome extension – free tool to source, organize, export. Features:
- Verified emails
- AI recommendations
GitHub Search Launch – February 22, 2018
GitHub Search launch – 21M developers.
- Coder Scores
- Complete profiles
- Familiar search interface
- Speed up interviews
- Higher response rates
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