§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads Wellfound by 7 points.
Inside the Screening cohort, rubric v1.0 puts Braintrust AIR on 59 and Wellfound on 52, 7 points apart. Braintrust AIR leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Wellfound leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Braintrust AIR 58, Wellfound 40) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 44% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Braintrust AIR
Braintrust AIR is an enterprise AI interviewer that runs recorded conversational voice interviews, scores the transcribed answers against recruiter-editable rubric criteria, and sends ranked scorecards, transcripts and recordings to the employer's ATS for human review.
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
Braintrust AIR and Wellfound are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Braintrust AIR is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Braintrust AIR | Wellfound |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · Wellfound 40
3.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · Wellfound 45
1.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
18% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · Wellfound 82
1.3 weighted points to Wellfound
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · Wellfound 52
1.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · Wellfound 28
1.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · Wellfound 58
0.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · Wellfound 60
0.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +6.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +6.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus Wellfound.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | Wellfound | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 82 | -7 | -1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 28 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 45 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 52 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 58 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 52 (F) | +7 | +6.9 |
§ 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 | Braintrust AIR | Wellfound | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 0 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 3 | 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 |
Braintrust AIR has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 3 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 Braintrust AIR and Wellfound sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 27 for Wellfound, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wellfound last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next