§ The result
Wellfound leads AmazingHiring by 15 points.
Wellfound finishes 15 points clear of AmazingHiring under rubric v1.0 — 52 against 37 — across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. Wellfound leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while AmazingHiring leads 2, including Data Governance Disclosure. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — AmazingHiring 22, Wellfound 82 — and at an 18% weight it carries 68% of the weighted advantage Wellfound holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
AmazingHiring
A technical-talent sourcing platform that aggregates public developer profiles from 50+ networks (GitHub, Stack Overflow, Kaggle, LinkedIn) and uses AI to rank and surface candidates for recruiters, with verified-contact retrieval and outreach automation.
Vendor profile
Wellfound
Wellfound is a startup hiring marketplace and AI recruiting platform whose wellfound:ai suite auto-generates screening criteria from a job description, then scores and ranks inbound applicants (AI Resume Screening) and surfaces outbound candidates from a talent graph of 10M opt-in Wellfound profiles plus 500M+ enriched external profiles.
§ The record
AmazingHiring is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Wellfound under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Wellfound is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | AmazingHiring | Wellfound |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
AmazingHiring 22 · Wellfound 82
10.8 weighted points to Wellfound
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
AmazingHiring 33 · Wellfound 60
3.2 weighted points to Wellfound
20% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
AmazingHiring 35 · Wellfound 40
1.0 weighted points to Wellfound
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
AmazingHiring 50 · Wellfound 45
0.8 weighted points to AmazingHiring
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
AmazingHiring 48 · Wellfound 52
0.5 weighted points to Wellfound
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
AmazingHiring 52 · Wellfound 58
0.5 weighted points to Wellfound
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
AmazingHiring 30 · Wellfound 28
0.3 weighted points to AmazingHiring
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -14.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is AmazingHiring minus Wellfound.
| Category | Weight | AmazingHiring | Wellfound | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 82 | -60 | -10.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 45 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 52 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 60 | -27 | -3.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 52 (F) | -15 | -14.9 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | AmazingHiring | Wellfound | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 12 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 22 | 9 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
AmazingHiring has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Wellfound has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 22 with a source URL, 9 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Wellfound sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for AmazingHiring, across 1 distinct source domain, and 27 for Wellfound, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- AmazingHiring last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wellfound last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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