Fountain
High-volume hiring platform built for frontline and hourly workers.
About
Fountain is a hiring platform purpose-built for frontline roles in retail, restaurants, delivery, and logistics. Candidates apply through mobile-first flows — including text-to-apply — get auto-screened, and self-schedule interviews, while agentic AI nudges them through the funnel and an AI voice screen can run outside office hours. The suite covers sourcing across 80-plus job boards, assessments, onboarding documents, I-9 compliance, shift assignment, and workforce communication, plus Pool as a talent CRM for past applicants. The company reports 91 million-plus applicants processed and 14 million-plus hires — company-reported. The main platform is quote-based (directories cite around $10,000 as a starting point), with a published Amazon DSP pack around $300 per hire. Limitations: pricing opacity, reporting is less robust than enterprise ATS analytics, and speed-to-hire gains don't guarantee retention.
What it can do
- Mobile-first applications; text-to-apply; AI chatbot and voice screening; automated scheduling; 80+ job board distribution; onboarding and I-9; talent CRM; shift management.
Setup
Configure location-based workflows; connect job boards and HRIS; launch text-to-apply campaigns.
Prerequisites
High-volume hourly hiring; mobile-first candidate population.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Mobile-first frontline hiring, text-to-apply, agentic AI, 80+ job boards, and 91M+ applicants / 14M+ hires confirmed on fountain.com and SelectHub comparisons.; Quote-based pricing (directories cite ~$10,000 starting) and limited reporting disclosed; applicant/hire totals are company-reported..
Sources
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