Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Phenom vs Wellfound
Phenom
Talent experience platform combining a career site CMS, candidate CRM, internal mobility, and conversational AI for screening and scheduling.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
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.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
Phenom and Wellfound tie at 52.
Phenom (Sourcing) and Wellfound (Screening) tie at 52 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. Phenom leads 3 of the 7 criteria and Wellfound 4, yet the two totals land on the same number. One criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, is both the widest raw gap (Phenom 30, Wellfound 60) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 12% weight it makes up 65% of the weighted advantage Wellfound holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Phenom3
- Wellfound4
- Widest raw gap
- Post-Market Monitoring30 vs 60
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Post-Market Monitoring12% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Phenom is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Wellfound under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Phenom | Wellfound |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2010 | 2012 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight31% of the movement so far
Phenom30Wellfound603.6 weighted points to Wellfound
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight56% of the movement so far
Phenom55Wellfound403.0 weighted points to Phenom
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight75% of the movement so far
Phenom60Wellfound452.3 weighted points to Phenom
- 4
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight86% of the movement so far
Phenom75Wellfound821.3 weighted points to Wellfound
- 5
Human Oversight Design
12% weight94% of the movement so far
Phenom60Wellfound521.0 weighted points to Phenom
- 6
FRIA Support
15% weight98% of the movement so far
Phenom25Wellfound280.4 weighted points to Wellfound
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Phenom55Wellfound580.2 weighted points to Wellfound
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +0.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.8 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 +0.7.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Phenom minus Wellfound, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Phenom | Wellfound | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 40 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 82 | -7 | -1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 28 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 60 | -30 | -3.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 52F | 52F | - | +0.7 |
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 | Phenom | Wellfound | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own 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 | — | 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% | 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 domain | 22 | 9 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Phenom 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 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 Phenom, across 1 distinct source domain, and 27 for Wellfound, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Phenom last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wellfound last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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