§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Fountain by 12 points.
Workday Recruiting AI sits 12 points above Fountain under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 44 — with Workday Recruiting AI filed under ATS-integrated and Fountain under Screening. Workday Recruiting AI leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Fountain leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Fountain 30, Workday Recruiting AI 60 — and at an 18% weight it carries 45% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 5 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
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
§ The record
Fountain is filed under Screening AI, Workday Recruiting AI under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
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 | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fountain 30 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
5.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fountain 50 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
4.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fountain 52 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fountain 58 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fountain 30 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Fountain 40 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.6 weighted points to Fountain
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -11.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -11.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fountain minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Fountain | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 70 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 60 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 65 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 65 | -13 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 56 (F) | -12 | -11.4 |
§ 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 | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | 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 | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Fountain has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 31 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Fountain, across 2 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fountain last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next