§ The result
Wellfound takes the total, JobAdder takes more of the criteria.
Wellfound scores 52 and JobAdder 45 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. JobAdder leads more of the criteria than Wellfound — 4 to 2 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Wellfound leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Wellfound. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (JobAdder 35, Wellfound 82) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 81% of the weighted advantage Wellfound holds across the 2 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
JobAdder
JobAdder is a Sydney-based ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and in-house teams whose Adder Intelligence layer, launched in November 2025 on LLMs hosted in Amazon Bedrock, gives every applicant an AI summary and relevancy rating and also drafts client-ready candidate overviews (Smart Floats), suggests skill codes, proposes record updates and writes job ads, alongside database skill matching.
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
JobAdder 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, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | JobAdder | Wellfound |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2007 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
JobAdder 35 · Wellfound 82
8.5 weighted points to Wellfound
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
JobAdder 43 · Wellfound 60
2.0 weighted points to Wellfound
20% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
JobAdder 50 · Wellfound 40
2.0 weighted points to JobAdder
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
JobAdder 56 · Wellfound 45
1.6 weighted points to JobAdder
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
JobAdder 30 · Wellfound 28
0.3 weighted points to JobAdder
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
JobAdder 54 · Wellfound 52
0.2 weighted points to JobAdder
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -6.3 — 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 -7 beside that -6.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is JobAdder minus Wellfound.
| Category | Weight | JobAdder | Wellfound | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 82 | -47 | -8.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 45 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 52 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 60 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 52 (F) | -7 | -6.3 |
§ 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 | JobAdder | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 5 | 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 |
JobAdder has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 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 JobAdder and Wellfound sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for JobAdder, across 3 distinct source domains, and 27 for Wellfound, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- JobAdder last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wellfound last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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