Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Greenhouse vs Wellfound
Greenhouse
End-to-end applicant tracking system and structured-hiring platform, now layered with 'Greenhouse AI' features such as resume parsing, Talent Matching, and interview summarisation.
Concerning
ATS-integrated
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.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
Greenhouse leads Wellfound by 15 points.
Greenhouse finishes 15 points clear of Wellfound under rubric v1.0 — 67 (D) against 52 (F) — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Greenhouse: Greenhouse is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Wellfound on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Greenhouse 78, Wellfound 40) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 49% of the weighted advantage Greenhouse holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Greenhouse6
- Wellfound1
- Widest raw gap
- Article 11 Technical Documentation78 vs 40
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Greenhouse is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Wellfound under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Greenhouse | Wellfound |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2012 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight49% of the movement so far
Greenhouse78Wellfound407.6 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 2
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight67% of the movement so far
Greenhouse64Wellfound452.9 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 3
FRIA Support
15% weight80% of the movement so far
Greenhouse42Wellfound282.1 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 4
Human Oversight Design
12% weight91% of the movement so far
Greenhouse66Wellfound521.7 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 5
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight95% of the movement so far
Greenhouse86Wellfound820.7 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 6
Customer Documentation
8% weight98% of the movement so far
Greenhouse64Wellfound580.5 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 7
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Greenhouse58Wellfound600.2 weighted points to Wellfound
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +15.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.7 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 +15.2.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Greenhouse minus Wellfound, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Greenhouse | Wellfound | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 78 | 40 | +38 | +7.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 86 | 82 | +4 | +0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 28 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 45 | +19 | +2.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 52 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 58 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 67D | 52F | +15 | +15.2 |
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 | Greenhouse | 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% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 1 | 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 |
Greenhouse has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; Wellfound has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 22 with a source URL, 9 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Greenhouse and Wellfound sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Greenhouse, across 3 distinct source domains, and 27 for Wellfound, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Greenhouse last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wellfound last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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