§ The result
Indeed leads Fountain on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Indeed scores 50 and Fountain 44 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Sourcing and Screening cohorts. Indeed 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 Indeed leads is Data Governance Disclosure, Fountain 55 to Indeed 58. Customer Documentation is the widest raw gap (Fountain 52, Indeed 64) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Fountain 50, Indeed 58), 26% of the weighted advantage Indeed builds across the 6 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
Indeed
Job marketplace whose employer-side AI (the Talent Scout agent, Sourcing Assistant, Smart Screening and candidate matching) sources, ranks and scores candidates from Indeed's profile pool and applicant flow and drafts outreach to them.
§ The record
Fountain is filed under Screening AI, Indeed under Candidate sourcing 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.
| Record | Fountain | Indeed |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2004 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fountain 50 · Indeed 58
1.6 weighted points to Indeed
18% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fountain 30 · Indeed 38
1.4 weighted points to Indeed
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fountain 30 · Indeed 38
1.2 weighted points to Indeed
8% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fountain 52 · Indeed 64
1.0 weighted points to Indeed
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fountain 58 · Indeed 63
0.6 weighted points to Indeed
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Fountain 55 · Indeed 58
0.4 weighted points to Indeed
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -6.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -6.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fountain minus Indeed.
| Category | Weight | Fountain | Indeed | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 64 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 50 (F) | -6 | -6.3 |
§ 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 | Indeed | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 4 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 36 | 5 | Sources 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; Indeed has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 36 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Indeed 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: 20 for Fountain, across 2 distinct source domains, and 40 for Indeed, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fountain last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Indeed last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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