§ The result
Wellfound leads Paradox on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Wellfound sits 11 points above Paradox under rubric v1.0 — 52 against 41 — with Wellfound filed under Screening and Paradox under Scheduling. Wellfound leads 5 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 2 are level, so Paradox is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 5 Wellfound leads is Human Oversight Design, Paradox 50 to Wellfound 52. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Paradox 50, Wellfound 82 — and at an 18% weight it carries 55% of the weighted advantage Wellfound holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Paradox
Conversational AI ("Olivia") that screens, schedules, and engages candidates over chat and SMS, often deployed on top of an existing ATS.
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
Paradox is filed under Scheduling AI, Wellfound under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Paradox | Wellfound |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2016 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paradox 50 · Wellfound 82
5.8 weighted points to Wellfound
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paradox 35 · Wellfound 60
3.0 weighted points to Wellfound
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paradox 45 · Wellfound 58
1.0 weighted points to Wellfound
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Paradox 25 · Wellfound 28
0.4 weighted points to Wellfound
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Paradox 50 · Wellfound 52
0.2 weighted points to Wellfound
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -10.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -10.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paradox minus Wellfound.
| Category | Weight | Paradox | Wellfound | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 82 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 28 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 45 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 60 | -25 | -3.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 45 | 58 | -13 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 52 (F) | -11 | -10.5 |
§ 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 | Paradox | Wellfound | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | 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% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 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% | 8 | 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 |
Paradox has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 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 Paradox and Wellfound sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 10 for Paradox, across 2 distinct source domains, and 27 for Wellfound, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paradox last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wellfound last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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