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'