§ The result
Pinpoint leads Fountain on all 7 criteria.
Pinpoint sits 13 points above Fountain under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 44 — with Pinpoint filed under ATS-integrated and Fountain under Screening. Pinpoint leads every one of the 7 criteria, Fountain none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Fountain 58 to Pinpoint 64. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Fountain 50, Pinpoint 72, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 34% of the weighted advantage Pinpoint holds across the 7 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
Pinpoint
Pinpoint is an applicant tracking system for in-house talent teams that layers AI-assisted screening onto core hiring workflows - candidate match scores, AI filters, anonymized screening, an interview notetaker, and a hiring copilot for outreach and rejections.
§ The record
Fountain is filed under Screening AI, Pinpoint under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Fountain | Pinpoint |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | JE |
| Founded | 2014 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fountain 50 · Pinpoint 72
4.4 weighted points to Pinpoint
18% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fountain 30 · Pinpoint 42
2.2 weighted points to Pinpoint
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Fountain 55 · Pinpoint 68
1.9 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Fountain 40 · Pinpoint 52
1.4 weighted points to Pinpoint
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fountain 30 · Pinpoint 38
1.2 weighted points to Pinpoint
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fountain 52 · Pinpoint 66
1.1 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fountain 58 · Pinpoint 64
0.7 weighted points to Pinpoint
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -13.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -13.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fountain minus Pinpoint.
| Category | Weight | Fountain | Pinpoint | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 72 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 42 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 68 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 64 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 52 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 66 | -14 | -1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 57 (F) | -13 | -13.0 |
§ 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 | Pinpoint | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 18 | 2 | 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; Pinpoint has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 2 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 40 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Fountain, across 2 distinct source domains, and 20 for Pinpoint, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fountain last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pinpoint last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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