§ The result
HackerRank leads Fountain on 6 of the 7 criteria.
HackerRank sits 11 points above Fountain under rubric v1.0 — 55 against 44 — with HackerRank filed under Assessment and Fountain under Screening. HackerRank leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Fountain is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 HackerRank leads is Human Oversight Design, Fountain 58 to HackerRank 60. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Fountain 30, HackerRank 68 — and at an 18% weight it carries 61% of the weighted advantage HackerRank holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
HackerRank
HackerRank is a technical skills assessment platform for developer hiring that uses coding tests, interviews, and AI-based features (question generation, ML plagiarism/AI-code detection, and image-analysis proctoring) to evaluate candidates.
§ The record
Fountain is filed under Screening AI, HackerRank under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only HackerRank is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Fountain | HackerRank |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2009 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fountain 30 · HackerRank 68
6.8 weighted points to HackerRank
20% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fountain 50 · HackerRank 60
2.0 weighted points to HackerRank
8% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fountain 52 · HackerRank 62
0.8 weighted points to HackerRank
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fountain 30 · HackerRank 35
0.8 weighted points to HackerRank
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Fountain 40 · HackerRank 45
0.6 weighted points to HackerRank
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fountain 58 · HackerRank 60
0.2 weighted points to HackerRank
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -11.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -11.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fountain minus HackerRank.
| Category | Weight | Fountain | HackerRank | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 68 | -38 | -6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 45 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 55 (F) | -11 | -11.2 |
§ 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 | Fountain | HackerRank | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 14 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 14 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Fountain has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; HackerRank has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HackerRank sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Fountain, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for HackerRank, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fountain last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HackerRank last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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