Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 20 → 17 of 97
5 categories · Named, not rankedWellfound
21Judge labels
0First choices
0Negative labels
10 / 14Models named it
5Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
9 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Wellfound was named 9 times in Job advertising and 4 other categories, where JobTarget led with 23%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business21 of 102
0%7 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market33 of 111
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In job advertising · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Wellfound for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Job advertising and distribution | Talent acquisition | 0% | 33 of 111 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by JobTarget at 23% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Internal talent marketplace | Performance and talent management | 0% | 31 of 102 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Fuel50 at 47% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Recruiting CRM and sourcing | Talent acquisition | 0% | 36 of 111 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Gem at 15% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Recruitment marketing and career sites | Talent acquisition | 0% | 54 of 104 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Teamtailor at 23% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Staffing agency platforms | Talent acquisition | 0% | 66 of 136 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Zoho Recruit at 22% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Wellfound held within the floor in all five categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Job advertising · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 16 → 30 of 103
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Job advertising | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 16 → 33 of 111 |
| Internal talent marketpl | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 31 of 102, unchanged |
| Recruiting CRM | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 50 → 36 of 111 |
| Recruitment marketing | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 54 of 104, unchanged |
| Staffing agency tools | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 66 of 136, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 13 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Wellfound across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Wellfound across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative13 labelsNone
Budget-constrained5 labelsNone
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative21 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Wellfound (AngelList Talent) | Free | Unlimited job posts, startup-focused talent pool” Grok 4.1 Fast · Recruitment marketing · budget prompt · alternative
“For startups: Consider Wellfound or Handshake Basic for free job postings” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Staffing agency tools · budget prompt · alternative
“It has a highly capable free tier that allows companies to post job openings” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Recruiting CRM · budget prompt · alternative
“Vertical-focused databases with enrichment (e.g., SeekOut, Wellfound)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Recruiting CRM · negative prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Wellfound, over the 21 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Wellfound was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Wellfound, over the 21 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Wellfound was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Wellfound. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 20 of the 21 answers that named Wellfound and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
pin.com10
g2.com9
firsthr.app7
100hires.com6
selectsoftwarereviews.com6
upwork.com6
money.com5
forbes.com4
noon.ai4
us.fitgap.com4
Sixty-one of the sixty-one domain citations in answers naming Wellfound came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
wellfound.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Wellfound takes 0% of first choices and JobTarget takes 23%.ShowHide
Search and answers
wellfound.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Wellfound takes 0% of first choices and JobTarget takes 23%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “job advertising platforms”
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not in the top ten
Position for “programmatic job advertising platform”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 40,500 a month (“wellfound”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 114 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 261,791 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 57,122 · 1,757 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 53,014
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 33 of 111 in job advertising
Segment leader
23%
JobTarget
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 21 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 20 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on wellfound.com
831
subdomains included
Content
363
counted in the table below
Documentation
339
Product · Integration
2 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 353 | 4 | 2026-09-17 | ||
| Comparison | 4 | 0 | 2024-04-10 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 4 | undated | |||
| Case study | 1 | 0 | 2023-04-04 | ||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-17Wellfound reach mcp ai assistant blog
- 2026-09-17Company updates blog
- 2026-07-22Skills based hiring why job titles fail blog
- 2026-07-22Hiring blog
- 2026-04-23Best ai recruiting tools for technical hiring in 2026 blog
- 2026-04-20Best ai sourcing tools startup hiring blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page wellfound.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Wellfound
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Wellfound; a claim can dispute any of them.
Wellfound (AngelList Talent) 1Wellfound (formerly AngelList) 1
Follow Wellfound
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Wellfound is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Wellfound is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The AI recruiting platform and talent marketplace for startups.
- For
- Startups hiring at every stage, from a first engineering hire to scaling whole teams, and candidates who want to work at high-growth companies.
- Price stated
- Unlimited jobs, unlimited applicants, and a built-in ATS are $0 forever. Promoting a job for extra visibility is optional and paid, as are Wellfound Reach (AI sourcing) and Autopilot (managed hiring). wellfound.com
- Starting price
- $0 forever wellfound.com
- Free plan or trial
- Yes. Creating a profile and applying to jobs on Wellfound is always free for candidates. wellfound.com
- Customers named
- ChimeCognitionOkloZiplineLovableNotionStripeModernHealth
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications, hosting
What Wellfound's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: wellfound.com, wellfound.com/recruit/pricing, wellfound.com/recruit/products/curated. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Wellfound's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Wellfound, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Wellfound by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Wellfound is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Wellfound, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.