AI-native platform for high-volume frontline hiring and workforce management, used by companies including El Pollo Loco, Bojangles and UPS. About 14 years old, it sells AI and agentic solutions to its customers and sells mostly to C-level buyers and the one or two levels below them. Fountain acquired the Paris conversational-AI startup Clevy, and its marketing organization runs on Marketing OS, a 55-agent system built by Head of Growth & Marketing Bastien Botella.
www.fountain.com ↗Luke McKinlay on the one number every startup is valued on: aligning the company on one ARR definition, ramping contracts, usage revenue with no commitment, zero-floor enterprise logos and pilots, comp plans that true up, fewer reps, finance and RevOps as best friends, and running finance as a team of one with AI
Bastien Botella on the 55-agent Marketing OS that runs Fountain's marketing: collectors, orchestration and action layers, why the data layer is the hard part, sizing models to context, and why velocity is the real edge in AEO