§ The result
Fountain leads Dice on all 7 criteria.
Fountain scores 44 and Dice 36 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. Fountain is ahead of Dice on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Customer Documentation at Dice 50 to Fountain 52. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Dice 32, Fountain 50) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 46% of the weighted advantage Fountain holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Dice
Dice is a US job marketplace and resume database for tech roles, run by DHI Group, whose employer tools use a proprietary skills knowledge graph and machine learning (IntelliSearch) to match, score and rank sourced candidates and applicants against job postings.
Vendor profile
Fountain
AI-powered high-volume hiring platform that automates sourcing, applicant screening (including a voice-based AI Recruiter), interview scheduling, and onboarding for frontline workforces.
§ The record
Dice is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Fountain under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Dice | Fountain |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1990 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dice 32 · Fountain 50
3.6 weighted points to Fountain
15% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dice 45 · Fountain 55
1.5 weighted points to Fountain
18% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dice 25 · Fountain 30
0.9 weighted points to Fountain
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dice 25 · Fountain 30
0.8 weighted points to Fountain
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dice 35 · Fountain 40
0.6 weighted points to Fountain
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dice 55 · Fountain 58
0.4 weighted points to Fountain
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dice 50 · Fountain 52
0.2 weighted points to Fountain
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -7.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -8 beside that -7.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dice minus Fountain.
| Category | Weight | Dice | Fountain | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 32 | 50 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 36 (F) | 44 (F) | -8 | -7.9 |
§ 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 | Dice | Fountain | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 14 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Dice has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Fountain has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Dice sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Dice, across 4 distinct source domains, and 20 for Fountain, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dice last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Fountain last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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