§ The result
Eightfold AI leads Wellfound by 12 points.
Eightfold AI sits 12 points above Wellfound under rubric v1.0 — 64 (D) against 52 (F) — with Eightfold AI filed under Sourcing and Wellfound under Screening. Eightfold AI leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Wellfound leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Eightfold AI 75, Wellfound 40 — and at a 20% weight it carries 52% of the weighted advantage Eightfold AI holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Eightfold AI
Talent intelligence platform offering candidate matching, internal mobility, and career-site personalization on top of a deep-learning talent graph.
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
Eightfold AI is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Wellfound under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
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 | Eightfold AI | Wellfound |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2016 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Eightfold AI 75 · Wellfound 40
7.0 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 65% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Eightfold AI 45 · Wellfound 28
2.5 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Eightfold AI 60 · Wellfound 45
2.3 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Eightfold AI 50 · Wellfound 60
1.2 weighted points to Wellfound
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Eightfold AI 60 · Wellfound 52
1.0 weighted points to Eightfold AI
18% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Eightfold AI 85 · Wellfound 82
0.5 weighted points to Eightfold AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Eightfold AI 60 · Wellfound 58
0.2 weighted points to Eightfold AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +12.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +12.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Eightfold AI minus Wellfound.
| Category | Weight | Eightfold AI | Wellfound | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 75 | 40 | +35 | +7.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 85 | 82 | +3 | +0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 28 | +17 | +2.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 64 (D) | 52 (F) | +12 | +12.3 |
§ 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 | Eightfold AI | Wellfound | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | — | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 2 | 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 |
Eightfold AI has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 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 Eightfold AI and Wellfound sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 15 for Eightfold AI, across 2 distinct source domains, and 27 for Wellfound, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Eightfold AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wellfound last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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