Wellfound

Wellfound (formerly AngelList Talent) is a startup hiring marketplace and AI recruiting platform operating wellfound.com, the Wellfound Reach AI sourcing product and the Autopilot managed-recruiting service. Its entire public machine-readable API surface is two OAuth-protected Model Context Protocol servers - https://wellfound.com/api/mcp for recruiter applications and https://reach.wellfound.com/mcp for Reach projects, sourcing agents, candidates and company lists - discovered from a complete RFC 8414 / RFC 9728 / OpenID Connect discovery stack and verified by probe. Wellfound publishes no OpenAPI document, no public GraphQL endpoint, no REST reference and no developer portal, so the discovery documents are the only published description of how to integrate.

Wellfound publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Recruiting, Hiring, Talent, Human Resources, and Applicant Tracking.

Wellfound’s developer surface includes support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, authentication, and 23 more developer resources.

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28.4/100 thin Agent 28/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-04 · rubric v0.18.3
2 APIs 1 MCP Servers
RecruitingHiringTalentHuman ResourcesApplicant TrackingJob BoardStartupsMCPagent-nativeOAuthAI Sourcing

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scored 2026-09-04 · rubric v0.18.3
Composite quality — 28.4/100 · thin
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.8 / 20
Access Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Contract Governance 2.2 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 6 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5
Registration Without a Human 6 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Wellfound Applications MCP

Remote MCP server exposing a recruiter's inbound job applications to an agent, and letting it accept or reject them. Named "Wellfound recruiter applications" in its own RFC 9728...

Wellfound Reach MCP

Remote MCP server for Wellfound Reach, the AI sourcing product. Seven scopes across four resources - projects:read, agents:read, agents:write, candidates:read, candidates:write,...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Wellfound MCP servers

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Wellfound Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Wellfound Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Wellfound Authentication

2 schemes

SECURITY

Wellfound Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Wellfound Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Wellfound Trust Center

SOC 2

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Wellfound Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp
SignUp
 Login
Login

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer
MCPServer
 WellKnown
WellKnown
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance
Conformance
 Conventions
Conventions
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages
Packages

Access & Security 8

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter
TrustCenter
 Authentication
Authentication
 OAuthScopes
OAuthScopes
 SecurityTxt
SecurityTxt
 Security
Security
 VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Compliance
Compliance

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Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 StatusPage
StatusPage
 RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 Plans
Plans

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog
 BlogRSS
BlogRSS

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: wellfound
name: Wellfound
description: Wellfound (formerly AngelList Talent) is a startup hiring marketplace and AI recruiting platform operating wellfound.com,
  the Wellfound Reach AI sourcing product and the Autopilot managed-recruiting service. Its entire public machine-readable
  API surface is two OAuth-protected Model Context Protocol servers - https://wellfound.com/api/mcp for recruiter applications
  and https://reach.wellfound.com/mcp for Reach projects, sourcing agents, candidates and company lists - discovered from
  a complete RFC 8414 / RFC 9728 / OpenID Connect discovery stack and verified by probe. Wellfound publishes no OpenAPI document,
  no public GraphQL endpoint, no REST reference and no developer portal, so the discovery documents are the only published
  description of how to integrate.
image: https://reach.wellfound.com/assets/marketing/og/homepage-2fb80e2936cb06211fa7702e4b089510c772d1b887166b884b4720f73445e875.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wellfound/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
position: Producing
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-04'
modified: '2026-09-04'
tags:
- Recruiting
- Hiring
- Talent
- Human Resources
- Applicant Tracking
- Job Board
- Startups
- MCP
- agent-native
- OAuth
- AI Sourcing
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- aid: wellfound:wellfound-applications-mcp
  name: Wellfound Applications MCP
  description: Remote MCP server exposing a recruiter's inbound job applications to an agent, and letting it accept or reject
    them. Named "Wellfound recruiter applications" in its own RFC 9728 protected-resource document. OAuth 2.1 authorization
    code + PKCE S256 with dynamic client registration; scopes applications:read, applications:accept, applications:reject.
    The tool list is auth-gated - an unauthenticated tools/list returns HTTP 401 with an RFC 9728 WWW-Authenticate challenge.
  image: https://reach.wellfound.com/assets/marketing/og/homepage-2fb80e2936cb06211fa7702e4b089510c772d1b887166b884b4720f73445e875.png
  humanURL: https://wellfound.com/recruit/pricing
  baseURL: https://wellfound.com/api/mcp
  tags:
  - Recruiting
  - Applicant Tracking
  - MCP
  - agent-native
  - OAuth
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/wellfound-mcp.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/wellfound-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/wellfound-scopes.yml
  - type: OpenIDConnect
    url: well-known/wellfound-openid-configuration.json
- aid: wellfound:wellfound-reach-mcp
  name: Wellfound Reach MCP
  description: Remote MCP server for Wellfound Reach, the AI sourcing product. Seven scopes across four resources - projects:read,
    agents:read, agents:write, candidates:read, candidates:write, company_lists:read, company_lists:write - so an agent can
    read sourcing projects and both read and write the sourcing agents, candidates and company lists on an account. Its own
    authorization server at https://reach.wellfound.com accepts public clients only. The tool list is auth-gated.
  image: https://reach.wellfound.com/assets/marketing/og/homepage-2fb80e2936cb06211fa7702e4b089510c772d1b887166b884b4720f73445e875.png
  humanURL: https://reach.wellfound.com/
  baseURL: https://reach.wellfound.com/mcp
  tags:
  - Recruiting
  - AI Sourcing
  - Talent
  - MCP
  - agent-native
  - OAuth
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/wellfound-mcp.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/wellfound-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/wellfound-scopes.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://wellfound.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://help.wellfound.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://wellfound.com/blog
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://wellfound.com/blog.rss
- type: Pricing
  url: https://wellfound.com/recruit/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://wellfound.com/jobs/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://wellfound.com/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://wellfound.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://wellfound.com/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.wellfound.com/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://trust.wellfound.ai/
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/wellfound-mcp.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/wellfound-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/wellfound-scopes.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/wellfound-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/wellfound-security.txt
- type: Security
  url: security/wellfound-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/wellfound-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/wellfound-domain-security.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: security/wellfound-trust-center.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/wellfound-conformance.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/wellfound-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/wellfound-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/wellfound-lifecycle.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/wellfound-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/wellfound-rate-limits.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/wellfound-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/wellfound-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-04'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 22
  pass: local-v3
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: null
  detail: Contract discovery hit. Wellfound serves no OpenAPI and no public GraphQL, but it runs two live first-party MCP
    servers - https://wellfound.com/api/mcp and https://reach.wellfound.com/mcp - found via a complete RFC 8414 / RFC 9728
    / OpenID Connect discovery stack and verified by probe (both return HTTP 401 with a conformant WWW-Authenticate resource_metadata
    challenge). Their tool lists are OAuth-gated, so the 16 published scopes are recorded instead of invented tool schemas.
  evidence:
  - url: https://wellfound.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource
    status: 200
  - url: https://wellfound.com/api/mcp
    status: 401
  - url: https://reach.wellfound.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource
    status: 200
  - url: https://reach.wellfound.com/mcp
    status: 401
  - url: https://wellfound.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-09-04'

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