Fountain has unveiled two new AI-driven capabilities, Pool and Source – aimed at helping employers hire frontline workers faster while reducing recruiting costs. The additions expand the company’s Frontline OS, an AI-native platform designed to manage the full lifecycle of the global frontline workforce, from hiring and onboarding to ongoing management.
The launch addresses a persistent challenge in frontline recruitment: wasted hiring spend. Many employers invest heavily in attracting new applicants, even though large numbers of qualified candidates already exist within their systems. These include past applicants, seasonal workers, and former employees who are often overlooked due to limited visibility and disconnected tools.
“Most frontline teams already have the talent they need, they just can’t see it,” said Sean Behr, CEO of Fountain. “Companies overspend chasing net-new applicants while they already have qualified workers sitting idle in their systems.”
Pool and Source together power the “Find Faster” stage of Frontline OS. Pool focuses on rediscovering and reactivating known talent, while Source helps organizations optimize how and where they invest in new candidate sourcing. By combining both functions in a single operating system, Fountain positions Frontline OS as the first AI-native platform to unite talent rediscovery and sourcing optimization end to end.
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Pool applies agentic AI to analyze existing applicant databases, score and match candidates, and automatically re-engage qualified workers through personalized email and SMS outreach. The system functions like a CRM for frontline talent, enabling hiring teams to quickly surface ready-to-work candidates without restarting the recruitment process.
Source complements this approach by centralizing all sourcing channels and applying AI to monitor performance in real time. It identifies underperforming roles and channels early, allowing teams to redirect budgets toward options that consistently convert, rather than relying on guesswork or delayed reporting.
“Most frontline teams already have the talent they need, they just can’t see it,” Behr added. “Pool and Source change that by helping teams find ready-to-work candidates faster and focus their hiring spend where it actually pays off. That’s what the Frontline OS is built for, turning hiring from a set of disconnected tools into a system that works end to end.”
According to Fountain, the combined capabilities enable faster time-to-hire, fewer open roles, and more efficient use of recruiting budgets—critical advantages in high-volume frontline environments.
“Pool and Source give hiring teams earlier signals and clearer direction,” said Salim Jernite, chief product officer at Fountain. “By combining talent rediscovery with sourcing optimization, teams can move faster, reduce waste, and automate more of the hiring process with confidence.”
