Fountain

Run your frontline operations from a single prompt.

by Fountain · Talent Acquisition & Recruiting

Executive Summary

Fountain is a platform for hiring and managing frontline and hourly workers. It covers five products for sourcing, CRM, hiring, onboarding and scheduling, and an AI agent called Cue works across all five. Fountain Hire handles applications, screening, interview scheduling and offers, with AI agents that screen, schedule and follow up. The vendor says it hires on behalf of hundreds of customers in more than 75 countries and was recognized in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Talent Acquisition (Recruiting) Suites.

Use Cases

  • Hire hourly workers at high volume
  • Screen candidates and schedule interviews automatically
  • Re-engage past applicants and rehire top performers
  • Onboard new hires before day one
  • Fill open shifts across locations
  • Report on hiring performance across sites

Features

Visibility

  • Audit trail: Every action Cue takes is logged.
  • Cross-location visibility: Cue reads live signals across every open role, every location, every shift.
  • Admin visibility: Give admins visibility and control without training overhead

Intelligence

  • Cue agent: Cue doesn’t hand your team another dashboard to read. It does the work: sources candidates, screens them, fills the shift, clears onboarding, then tells you what it did.
  • Agentic hiring: Fountain Hire now includes agentic capabilities that screen, schedule, and follow up—so your team can focus on hiring, not handling.
  • Shift filling: Cue fills open shifts by matching who's available, qualified, and nearby.

Support

  • Integrations: Fountain connects to 40+ systems across HR, scheduling, compliance, training, background check…
  • Role-based access: SOC 2 compliant. Role-based access. Zero-trust architecture. Isolated environments.
  • Approval controls: Set approval steps, budget limits, and override rules.

Technical Specifications

Deployment
SaaS

AI/ML Stack

  • Anthropic Constitutional AI

Integrations

  • SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
  • Checkr
  • DocuSign
  • E-Verify
  • First Advantage
  • Indeed

Security & Compliance

Certifications: SOC 2, SOC 1 Type 2

Encryption: TLS (HTTPS with HSTS) in transit; AES-256 for documents at rest

Pricing

Model
Tailored to the customer's product suite
Starting Price
Contact sales
Target Customer
Frontline and hourly-worker employers

About Fountain

Fountain makes a platform for hiring and managing hourly frontline workers, covering sourcing, applicant management, onboarding and scheduling. It was founded in 2014 and says its customers hire over 3 million workers a year in more than 75 countries.

Founded: 2014

Verified sources

Each of these facts was checked against the vendor page linked (2026-11-05).

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