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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