§ The result
Wellfound leads ZipRecruiter by 12 points.
Wellfound, filed under Screening, comes out 12 points above ZipRecruiter, filed under Sourcing: 52 against 40 under rubric v1.0. ZipRecruiter takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Data Governance Disclosure among them, against 4 for Wellfound, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Wellfound 82, ZipRecruiter 24 — and at an 18% weight it carries 78% of the weighted advantage Wellfound holds across the 4 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
ZipRecruiter
ZipRecruiter is an online employment marketplace whose AI matching engine sends employers' job postings out, alerts matched job seekers and invites them to apply, and labels and ranks applicants (for example as 'Great Match') in the employer's candidate dashboard.
§ The record
Wellfound is filed under Screening AI, ZipRecruiter under Candidate sourcing 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 | ZipRecruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Wellfound 82 · ZipRecruiter 24
10.4 weighted points to Wellfound
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Wellfound 60 · ZipRecruiter 40
2.4 weighted points to Wellfound
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Wellfound 45 · ZipRecruiter 52
1.1 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Wellfound 52 · ZipRecruiter 55
0.4 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Wellfound 58 · ZipRecruiter 54
0.3 weighted points to Wellfound
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Wellfound 28 · ZipRecruiter 27
0.1 weighted points to Wellfound
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +11.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +11.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Wellfound minus ZipRecruiter.
| Category | Weight | Wellfound | ZipRecruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 82 | 24 | +58 | +10.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 27 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 52 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 40 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 54 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 40 (F) | +12 | +11.9 |
§ 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 | ZipRecruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 28 | 5 | Sources 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; ZipRecruiter has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Wellfound and ZipRecruiter 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: 27 for Wellfound, across 3 distinct source domains, and 33 for ZipRecruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Wellfound last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ZipRecruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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