§ The result
Fountain leads Fetcher by 7 points.
Fountain scores 44 and Fetcher 37 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. Fountain leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Fetcher leads 1, including Customer Documentation, and 1 is level. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Fetcher 27, Fountain 50 — and at a 20% weight it carries 65% of the weighted advantage Fountain holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Fetcher
AI-powered candidate sourcing and outbound recruiting platform that automates passive and active talent sourcing, personalized email outreach, and inbound applicant screening for corporate recruiting teams.
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
Fetcher 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 | Fetcher | Fountain |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fetcher 27 · Fountain 50
4.6 weighted points to Fountain
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fetcher 25 · Fountain 30
0.8 weighted points to Fountain
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fetcher 52 · Fountain 58
0.7 weighted points to Fountain
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Fetcher 35 · Fountain 40
0.6 weighted points to Fountain
18% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fetcher 28 · Fountain 30
0.4 weighted points to Fountain
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fetcher 55 · Fountain 52
0.2 weighted points to Fetcher
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -6.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -6.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fetcher minus Fountain.
| Category | Weight | Fetcher | Fountain | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 27 | 50 | -23 | -4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 44 (F) | -7 | -6.8 |
§ 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 | Fetcher | Fountain | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 14 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Fetcher has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 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.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 39 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Fetcher, across 1 distinct source domain, and 20 for Fountain, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fetcher last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Fountain last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next