Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Fountain vs JazzHR
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.
Substantial gaps
Screening
JazzHR
JazzHR is a small-business applicant tracking system that manages job posting, applications and hiring workflows, and layers on AI "Talent Fit" scoring that ranks candidates against a job description plus automated knockout screening questions.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
Fountain and JazzHR tie at 44.
Fountain (Screening) and JazzHR (ATS-integrated) tie at 44 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. Fountain leads 3 of the 7 criteria and JazzHR 3, with 1 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Fountain 50, JazzHR 45) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 57% of the weighted advantage Fountain holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Fountain3
- JazzHR3
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Article 11 Technical Documentation50 vs 45
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Fountain is filed under Screening AI, JazzHR under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Fountain | JazzHR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2009 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight31% of the movement so far
Fountain50JazzHR451.0 weighted points to Fountain
- 2
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight59% of the movement so far
Fountain30JazzHR350.9 weighted points to JazzHR
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight73% of the movement so far
Fountain55JazzHR520.4 weighted points to Fountain
- 4
Customer Documentation
8% weight83% of the movement so far
Fountain52JazzHR560.3 weighted points to JazzHR
- 5
FRIA Support
15% weight93% of the movement so far
Fountain30JazzHR280.3 weighted points to Fountain
- 6
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Fountain40JazzHR420.2 weighted points to JazzHR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +0.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that +0.3.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fountain minus JazzHR, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Fountain | JazzHR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 45 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 56 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 44F | 44F | - | +0.3 |
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 | JazzHR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 17 | 7 | 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; JazzHR has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for JazzHR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Fountain, across 2 distinct source domains, and 24 for JazzHR, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fountain last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- JazzHR last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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