§ The result
Apriora (Alex) leads Wellfound by 5 points.
Apriora (Alex) scores 57 and Wellfound 52 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Video interview and Screening cohorts. Apriora (Alex) leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Wellfound leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Post-Market Monitoring (Apriora (Alex) 47, Wellfound 60) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Apriora (Alex) 52, Wellfound 40), the second being 36% of the weighted advantage Apriora (Alex) holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Apriora (Alex)
Apriora's product "Alex" is an agentic AI recruiter whose live voice/video interviewer conducts real-time conversational interviews with candidates, asks dynamic follow-ups, and returns role-fit scores, transcripts, and fraud flags to the hiring team.
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
Apriora (Alex) is filed under Video interview AI, Wellfound under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Apriora (Alex) is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Apriora (Alex) | Wellfound |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 52 · Wellfound 40
2.4 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Apriora (Alex) 47 · Wellfound 60
1.6 weighted points to Wellfound
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Apriora (Alex) 38 · Wellfound 28
1.5 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Apriora (Alex) 54 · Wellfound 45
1.3 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Apriora (Alex) 60 · Wellfound 52
1.0 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 62 · Wellfound 58
0.3 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Apriora (Alex) 83 · Wellfound 82
0.2 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +5.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +5.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Apriora (Alex) minus Wellfound.
| Category | Weight | Apriora (Alex) | Wellfound | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 40 | +12 | +2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 82 | +1 | +0.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 28 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 45 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 60 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 52 (F) | +5 | +5.2 |
§ 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 | Apriora (Alex) | 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% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 22 | 9 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Apriora (Alex) has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 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 Apriora (Alex) and Wellfound sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Apriora (Alex), across 2 distinct source domains, and 27 for Wellfound, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Apriora (Alex) last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wellfound last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next