§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads Wellfound by 5 points.
Under rubric v1.0, LinkedIn Recruiter, filed under Sourcing, finishes on 57 and Wellfound, filed under Screening, on 52, 5 points apart. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of LinkedIn Recruiter: LinkedIn Recruiter is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Wellfound on Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to Wellfound — LinkedIn Recruiter 50, Wellfound 82, on an 18% weight — which is 83% of the weighted advantage Wellfound holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter is LinkedIn's enterprise sourcing and candidate-management platform, whose Hiring Assistant add-on and AI-Assisted Search use AI to turn intake notes into qualifications, source and rank candidates, evaluate applicants against recruiter-set qualifications, and draft or send outreach.
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
LinkedIn Recruiter is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Wellfound under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | LinkedIn Recruiter | Wellfound |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2002 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Wellfound 82
5.8 weighted points to Wellfound
20% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 67 · Wellfound 40
5.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
LinkedIn Recruiter 62 · Wellfound 45
2.5 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
LinkedIn Recruiter 66 · Wellfound 52
1.7 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
LinkedIn Recruiter 38 · Wellfound 28
1.5 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Wellfound 60
1.2 weighted points to Wellfound
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 68 · Wellfound 58
0.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +5.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +5.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LinkedIn Recruiter minus Wellfound.
| Category | Weight | LinkedIn Recruiter | Wellfound | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 67 | 40 | +27 | +5.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 82 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 28 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 52 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 58 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 52 (F) | +5 | +5.0 |
§ 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 | LinkedIn Recruiter | Wellfound | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 6 | 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% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 34 | 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 |
LinkedIn Recruiter has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 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 LinkedIn Recruiter and Wellfound sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains, and 27 for Wellfound, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wellfound last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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