§ The result
3 points separate Fountain and eSkill.
Fountain holds a 3-point edge over eSkill under rubric v1.0, 44 to 41, across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. eSkill takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Customer Documentation among them, against 5 for Fountain, whose share includes Data Governance Disclosure, and 1 is level. Data Governance Disclosure is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (eSkill 47, Fountain 55, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 39% of the weighted advantage Fountain holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
eSkill
eSkill is a pre-employment testing platform with auto-scored skills, cognitive and behavioral tests and human-rated one-way video interviews, plus an optional Proctorio-powered AI proctoring add-on that gives each candidate a suspicion score and a Claude-based "Linea" layer that drafts assessments from job descriptions.
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
eSkill is filed under Assessment AI, Fountain under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only eSkill is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | eSkill | Fountain |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2003 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
eSkill 47 · Fountain 55
1.2 weighted points to Fountain
18% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
eSkill 25 · Fountain 30
0.9 weighted points to Fountain
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
eSkill 36 · Fountain 40
0.5 weighted points to Fountain
20% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
eSkill 48 · Fountain 50
0.4 weighted points to Fountain
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
eSkill 56 · Fountain 52
0.3 weighted points to eSkill
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
eSkill 57 · Fountain 58
0.1 weighted points to Fountain
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -2.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -2.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is eSkill minus Fountain.
| Category | Weight | eSkill | Fountain | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 50 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 47 | 55 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 58 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 40 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 52 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 44 (F) | -3 | -2.8 |
§ 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 | eSkill | Fountain | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 14 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
eSkill has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 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 eSkill sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for eSkill, across 2 distinct source domains, and 20 for Fountain, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- eSkill last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Fountain last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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