§ The result
Wellfound leads Ceipal by 17 points.
Wellfound finishes 17 points clear of Ceipal under rubric v1.0 — 52 against 35 — across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. Wellfound leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Ceipal leads 1, including Data Governance Disclosure. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Ceipal 20, Wellfound 82 — and at an 18% weight it carries 64% of the weighted advantage Wellfound holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Ceipal
AI-powered applicant tracking and workforce-management platform for staffing firms that sources, matches, and ranks candidates on a 1-to-100 scale against job requirements.
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
Ceipal is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Wellfound under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Wellfound is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Ceipal | Wellfound |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ceipal 20 · Wellfound 82
11.2 weighted points to Wellfound
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ceipal 38 · Wellfound 60
2.6 weighted points to Wellfound
20% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ceipal 30 · Wellfound 40
2.0 weighted points to Wellfound
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · Wellfound 52
0.7 weighted points to Wellfound
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ceipal 25 · Wellfound 28
0.4 weighted points to Wellfound
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · Wellfound 58
0.4 weighted points to Wellfound
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · Wellfound 45
0.1 weighted points to Ceipal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -17.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -17.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus Wellfound.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | Wellfound | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 82 | -62 | -11.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 28 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 45 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 52 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 60 | -22 | -2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 58 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 52 (F) | -17 | -17.2 |
§ 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 | Ceipal | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 22 | 9 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Ceipal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 7 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 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 27 for Wellfound, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wellfound last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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