§ The result
Wellfound leads XOR on all 7 criteria.
Wellfound finishes 22 points clear of XOR inside the Screening cohort under rubric v1.0: 52 against 30. Wellfound leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; XOR leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Wellfound 82, XOR 18 — and at an 18% weight it carries 53% of the weighted advantage Wellfound holds across the 7 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
XOR
XOR is a text-first conversational-AI recruiting platform that pre-screens and scores high-volume and hourly candidates with recruiter-defined knockout/scoring questions over SMS, WhatsApp, and Messenger, then auto-schedules interviews on the recruiter's calendar.
§ The record
Wellfound and XOR are both filed 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 | Wellfound | XOR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Wellfound 82 · XOR 18
11.5 weighted points to Wellfound
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Wellfound 40 · XOR 20
4.0 weighted points to Wellfound
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Wellfound 60 · XOR 33
3.2 weighted points to Wellfound
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Wellfound 52 · XOR 40
1.4 weighted points to Wellfound
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Wellfound 58 · XOR 48
0.8 weighted points to Wellfound
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Wellfound 28 · XOR 25
0.4 weighted points to Wellfound
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Wellfound 45 · XOR 42
0.4 weighted points to Wellfound
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +21.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 21.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +22 beside that +21.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Wellfound minus XOR.
| Category | Weight | Wellfound | XOR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 20 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 82 | 18 | +64 | +11.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 42 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 40 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 33 | +27 | +3.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 48 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 30 (F) | +22 | +21.9 |
§ 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 | XOR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 22 | 9 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Wellfound has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 22 with a source URL, 9 documented absences; XOR has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 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 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 27 for Wellfound, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for XOR, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Wellfound last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- XOR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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