§ The result
HiredScore and Wellfound tie at 52.
HiredScore (Sourcing) and Wellfound (Screening) tie at 52 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. HiredScore leads 5 of the 7 criteria and Wellfound 2, yet the two totals land on the same number. HiredScore takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (HiredScore 65, Wellfound 40), which is 63% of the weighted advantage HiredScore holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, HiredScore 55 to Wellfound 82.
Vendor profile
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
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
HiredScore 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 | HiredScore | Wellfound |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiredScore 65 · Wellfound 40
5.0 weighted points to HiredScore
18% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiredScore 55 · Wellfound 82
4.9 weighted points to Wellfound
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiredScore 35 · Wellfound 60
3.0 weighted points to Wellfound
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiredScore 55 · Wellfound 45
1.5 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiredScore 60 · Wellfound 52
1.0 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiredScore 30 · Wellfound 28
0.3 weighted points to HiredScore
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiredScore 60 · Wellfound 58
0.2 weighted points to HiredScore
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +0.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that +0.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiredScore minus Wellfound.
| Category | Weight | HiredScore | Wellfound | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 40 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 82 | -27 | -4.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 45 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 60 | -25 | -3.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 52 (F) | - | +0.1 |
§ 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 | HiredScore | Wellfound | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 22 | 9 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 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 HiredScore and Wellfound sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain, and 27 for Wellfound, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wellfound last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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