Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Emmersion vs Fountain
Emmersion
Emmersion, Rosetta Stone's assessment division within IXL Learning, sells AI-scored adaptive TrueNorth speaking and writing tests and WebCAPE reading and grammar exams. They rate language proficiency on a 0-10 scale mapped to CEFR and ACTFL and are used for pre-employment screening, checking employees' language skills and placing students.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
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.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
Emmersion and Fountain tie at 44.
Emmersion (Assessment) and Fountain (Screening) tie at 44 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. Emmersion leads 2 of the 7 criteria and Fountain 4, with 1 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. Article 11 Technical Documentation, at 20%, is the heaviest weighted swing and goes to Emmersion (Emmersion 57, Fountain 50), 69% of the weighted advantage it holds, while the widest raw gap is Customer Documentation, Emmersion 60 to Fountain 52.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Emmersion2
- Fountain4
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Customer Documentation60 vs 52
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Emmersion is filed under Assessment AI, Fountain under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only Emmersion is in scope of
| Record | Emmersion | Fountain |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2014 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight35% of the movement so far
Emmersion57Fountain501.4 weighted points to Emmersion
- 2
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight54% of the movement so far
Emmersion50Fountain550.8 weighted points to Fountain
- 3
Customer Documentation
8% weight70% of the movement so far
Emmersion60Fountain520.6 weighted points to Emmersion
- 4
Human Oversight Design
12% weight85% of the movement so far
Emmersion53Fountain580.6 weighted points to Fountain
- 5
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight94% of the movement so far
Emmersion28Fountain300.4 weighted points to Fountain
- 6
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Emmersion38Fountain400.2 weighted points to Fountain
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +0.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that +0.1.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emmersion minus Fountain, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Emmersion | Fountain | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 57 | 50 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 58 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 44F | 44F | - | +0.1 |
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 | Emmersion | 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% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 35 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 14 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Emmersion has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 5 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 Emmersion 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: 40 for Emmersion, across 5 distinct source domains, and 20 for Fountain, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emmersion last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Fountain last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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