§ The result
4 points separate Workday Recruiting AI and Wellfound.
Workday Recruiting AI (ATS-integrated) edges Wellfound (Screening) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 56 to 52. Workday Recruiting AI leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Wellfound leads 2, including Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Wellfound 40, Workday Recruiting AI 70 — and at a 20% weight it carries 56% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
§ The record
Wellfound is filed under Screening AI, Workday Recruiting AI under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Wellfound is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Wellfound | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Wellfound 40 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
6.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Wellfound 82 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
4.0 weighted points to Wellfound
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Wellfound 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
3.0 weighted points to Wellfound
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Wellfound 52 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Wellfound 45 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
1.5 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Wellfound 28 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.1 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Wellfound 58 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -3.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -3.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Wellfound minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Wellfound | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 70 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 82 | 60 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 35 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 65 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 35 | +25 | +3.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 65 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 56 (F) | -4 | -3.7 |
§ 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 | Wellfound | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 22 | 9 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Wellfound has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 22 with a source URL, 9 documented absences; Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 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 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 27 for Wellfound, across 3 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Wellfound last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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