§ The result
Fountain takes the total, Recruitly takes more of the criteria.
Fountain (Screening) edges Recruitly (ATS-integrated) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 44 to 41. Recruitly leads more of the criteria than Fountain — 4 to 3 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Fountain leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Fountain. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Fountain 30, Recruitly 15) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 52% of the weighted advantage Fountain holds across the 3 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
Recruitly
Recruitly is an all-in-one ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies. It includes AI candidate matching, which ranks candidates against live jobs and shows its reasons, and AI application review, which scores and explains each applicant against the job spec. It also offers external profile sourcing, CV parsing, an AI phone system and an AI meeting assistant.
§ The record
Fountain is filed under Screening AI, Recruitly 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 | Recruitly |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | AE |
| Founded | 2014 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fountain 30 · Recruitly 15
2.7 weighted points to Fountain
15% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Fountain 55 · Recruitly 45
1.5 weighted points to Fountain
20% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fountain 50 · Recruitly 45
1.0 weighted points to Fountain
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fountain 30 · Recruitly 35
0.8 weighted points to Recruitly
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Fountain 40 · Recruitly 45
0.6 weighted points to Recruitly
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fountain 52 · Recruitly 58
0.5 weighted points to Recruitly
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fountain 58 · Recruitly 60
0.2 weighted points to Recruitly
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +3.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +3.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fountain minus Recruitly.
| Category | Weight | Fountain | Recruitly | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 45 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 15 | +15 | +2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 45 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 45 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 41 (F) | +3 | +3.1 |
§ 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 | Recruitly | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 32 | 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; Recruitly has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Fountain, across 2 distinct source domains, and 37 for Recruitly, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fountain last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruitly last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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