§ The result
Fountain leads SeekOut by 10 points.
Fountain sits 10 points above SeekOut under rubric v1.0 — 44 against 34 — with Fountain filed under Screening and SeekOut under Sourcing. Fountain leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while SeekOut leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Data Governance Disclosure (Fountain 55, SeekOut 35) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Fountain 50, SeekOut 35), the second being 26% of the weighted advantage Fountain holds across the 6 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
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
Fountain is filed under Screening AI, SeekOut under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Fountain is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Fountain | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 23% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fountain 50 · SeekOut 35
3.0 weighted points to Fountain
15% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Fountain 55 · SeekOut 35
3.0 weighted points to Fountain
18% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fountain 30 · SeekOut 40
1.8 weighted points to SeekOut
12% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Fountain 40 · SeekOut 25
1.8 weighted points to Fountain
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fountain 58 · SeekOut 45
1.6 weighted points to Fountain
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fountain 52 · SeekOut 35
1.4 weighted points to Fountain
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fountain 30 · SeekOut 25
0.8 weighted points to Fountain
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +9.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.3 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 +9.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fountain minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | Fountain | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 35 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 35 | +20 | +3.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 25 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 35 | +17 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 34 (F) | +10 | +9.7 |
§ 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 | SeekOut | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 4 | 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; SeekOut has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 5 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 29 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Fountain, across 2 distinct source domains, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fountain last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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