§ The result
Wellfound leads Paycor by 12 points.
Wellfound, filed under Screening, comes out 12 points above Paycor, filed under ATS-integrated: 52 against 40 under rubric v1.0. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Wellfound, with 1 level: Wellfound is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Paycor on Data Governance Disclosure. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Paycor 25, Wellfound 82 — and at an 18% weight it carries 77% of the weighted advantage Wellfound holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Paycor
Paycor, a Paychex company, sells a mid-market HR and payroll suite whose recruiting tools include the Paycor Recruiting ATS, Paycor Smart Sourcing (formerly Talenya), which uses AI to build a prioritized list of passive and active candidates for each role and automate outreach, and a WISE assistant that phone-screens candidates and scores their answers.
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
Paycor 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 | Paycor | Wellfound |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1990 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paycor 25 · Wellfound 82
10.3 weighted points to Wellfound
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paycor 38 · Wellfound 60
2.6 weighted points to Wellfound
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paycor 50 · Wellfound 45
0.8 weighted points to Paycor
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Paycor 55 · Wellfound 52
0.4 weighted points to Paycor
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paycor 55 · Wellfound 58
0.2 weighted points to Wellfound
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Paycor 27 · Wellfound 28
0.1 weighted points to Wellfound
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -12.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -12.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paycor minus Wellfound.
| Category | Weight | Paycor | Wellfound | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 82 | -57 | -10.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 28 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 45 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 60 | -22 | -2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 52 (F) | -12 | -12.2 |
§ 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 | Paycor | Wellfound | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 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% | 4 | 1 | 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% | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | 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 |
Paycor has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 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 Paycor and Wellfound sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Paycor, across 6 distinct source domains, and 27 for Wellfound, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wellfound last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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