§ The result
Wellfound leads Zappyhire on all 7 criteria.
Wellfound finishes 18 points clear of Zappyhire inside the Screening cohort under rubric v1.0: 52 against 34. Wellfound leads every one of the 7 criteria, Zappyhire none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Wellfound 52 to Zappyhire 50. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Wellfound 82, Zappyhire 28 — and at an 18% weight it carries 55% 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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
Wellfound and Zappyhire are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Zappyhire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Wellfound | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2012 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Wellfound 82 · Zappyhire 28
9.7 weighted points to Wellfound
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Wellfound 60 · Zappyhire 28
3.8 weighted points to Wellfound
20% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Wellfound 40 · Zappyhire 30
2.0 weighted points to Wellfound
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Wellfound 58 · Zappyhire 45
1.0 weighted points to Wellfound
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Wellfound 28 · Zappyhire 25
0.4 weighted points to Wellfound
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Wellfound 45 · Zappyhire 42
0.4 weighted points to Wellfound
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Wellfound 52 · Zappyhire 50
0.2 weighted points to Wellfound
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +17.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +18 beside that +17.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Wellfound minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Wellfound | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 82 | 28 | +54 | +9.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 42 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 28 | +32 | +3.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 34 (F) | +18 | +17.7 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 3 | 0 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 12 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Wellfound has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 22 with a source URL, 9 documented absences; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Wellfound and Zappyhire 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 Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Wellfound last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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