# Fountain

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/fountain-com/  
**Website:** https://www.fountain.com  
**APIs profiled:** 9

Fountain is a high-volume, frontline hourly hiring and workforce management platform used by enterprises to source, screen, schedule, and hire large numbers of hourly workers. The Fountain Developer API (Hire API v2) lets customers programmatically manage applicants, openings, positions, stages, labels, documents, scheduling slots, and webhooks across their hiring funnels.

## Kin Score — 37.6 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-24 under rubric 0.13.0. Trend: flat (-0.4 from 38.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 55.6 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 31.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

## Agent readiness — 21.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Enterprise · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: enterprise, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (9)

- **Fountain Applicants API** — Manage applicants moving through hiring funnels.
- **Fountain Documents API** — Manage secure applicant documents.
- **Fountain Labels API** — Assign and manage labels on applicants and stages.
- **Fountain Openings API** — Manage openings (funnels) - the hiring workflows.
- **Fountain Positions API** — Manage the job positions applicants are hired into.
- **Fountain Scheduling API** — Manage interview / calendar slots and bookings.
- **Fountain Stages API** — Retrieve stages and their available scheduling slots.
- **Fountain Webhooks API** — Manage webhook settings for hiring event notifications.
- **Fountain Workers API** — Manage post-hire workers.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Fountain Com Agentic Access** — 44 operations · 26 acting

## Security (3)

- **Fountain Com Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Fountain Com Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Fountain Com Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Fountain Com Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Hiring, Recruiting, Applicant Tracking, Frontline Hiring, Hourly Workforce, HR Tech, Onboarding

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/fountain-com/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.