§ The result
Wellfound leads Pulsifi by 19 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Wellfound (Screening) opens a 19-point lead on Pulsifi (Assessment), 52 to 33. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Wellfound: Wellfound is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Pulsifi on Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Pulsifi 20, Wellfound 82 — and at an 18% weight it carries 58% of the weighted advantage Wellfound holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Pulsifi
Pulsifi gives candidates and employees 0-100 Role Fit and Organizational Fit scores that combine personality, work-interest, work-culture and cognitive assessments with AI resume and skills analysis, and uses the scores to rank people for hiring, internal mobility and succession.
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
Pulsifi is filed under Assessment AI, Wellfound under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Pulsifi is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Pulsifi | Wellfound |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | SG | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pulsifi 20 · Wellfound 82
11.2 weighted points to Wellfound
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pulsifi 28 · Wellfound 60
3.8 weighted points to Wellfound
20% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pulsifi 30 · Wellfound 40
2.0 weighted points to Wellfound
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pulsifi 46 · Wellfound 58
1.0 weighted points to Wellfound
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pulsifi 40 · Wellfound 45
0.8 weighted points to Wellfound
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pulsifi 25 · Wellfound 28
0.4 weighted points to Wellfound
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pulsifi 55 · Wellfound 52
0.4 weighted points to Pulsifi
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -18.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -18.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pulsifi minus Wellfound.
| Category | Weight | Pulsifi | Wellfound | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 82 | -62 | -11.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 28 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 45 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 60 | -32 | -3.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 58 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 52 (F) | -19 | -18.8 |
§ 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 | Pulsifi | 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% | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 22 | 9 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 7 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 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain, and 27 for Wellfound, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wellfound last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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