§ The result
Fountain leads HireQuotient on all 7 criteria.
Fountain sits 10 points above HireQuotient under rubric v1.0 — 44 against 34 — with Fountain filed under Screening and HireQuotient under Sourcing. Fountain is ahead of HireQuotient on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Human Oversight Design at Fountain 58 to HireQuotient 57. The advantage Fountain holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Fountain 50, HireQuotient 35, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 30% of the weighted points Fountain gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
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
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
§ The record
Fountain is filed under Screening AI, HireQuotient under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: ATS-integrated and Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only HireQuotient is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Fountain | HireQuotient |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2014 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fountain 50 · HireQuotient 35
3.0 weighted points to Fountain
15% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Fountain 55 · HireQuotient 40
2.3 weighted points to Fountain
18% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fountain 30 · HireQuotient 18
2.2 weighted points to Fountain
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fountain 30 · HireQuotient 22
1.2 weighted points to Fountain
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Fountain 40 · HireQuotient 30
1.2 weighted points to Fountain
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fountain 52 · HireQuotient 50
0.2 weighted points to Fountain
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fountain 58 · HireQuotient 57
0.1 weighted points to Fountain
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +10.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fountain minus HireQuotient.
| Category | Weight | Fountain | HireQuotient | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 35 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 18 | +12 | +2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 22 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 40 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 57 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 34 (F) | +10 | +10.1 |
§ 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 | Fountain | HireQuotient | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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% | 14 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Fountain has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Fountain, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fountain last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next