§ The result
Fountain leads XOR on all 7 criteria.
Fountain sits 14 points above XOR under rubric v1.0, 44 against 30, with both filed under Screening. Fountain leads every one of the 7 criteria, XOR none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Customer Documentation, Fountain 52 to XOR 48. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Fountain 50, XOR 20 — and at a 20% weight it carries 42% of the weighted advantage Fountain 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
XOR
XOR is a text-first conversational-AI recruiting platform that pre-screens and scores high-volume and hourly candidates with recruiter-defined knockout/scoring questions over SMS, WhatsApp, and Messenger, then auto-schedules interviews on the recruiter's calendar.
§ The record
Fountain and XOR are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Fountain | XOR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fountain 50 · XOR 20
6.0 weighted points to Fountain
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fountain 30 · XOR 18
2.2 weighted points to Fountain
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fountain 58 · XOR 40
2.2 weighted points to Fountain
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Fountain 55 · XOR 42
1.9 weighted points to Fountain
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Fountain 40 · XOR 33
0.8 weighted points to Fountain
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fountain 30 · XOR 25
0.8 weighted points to Fountain
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fountain 52 · XOR 48
0.3 weighted points to Fountain
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +14.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +14.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fountain minus XOR.
| Category | Weight | Fountain | XOR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 20 | +30 | +6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 18 | +12 | +2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 33 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 48 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 30 (F) | +14 | +14.2 |
§ 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 | XOR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 7 | 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; XOR has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Fountain, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for XOR, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fountain last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- XOR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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