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Fountain

Fountain is an AI-powered frontline workforce management platform used by 500+ enterprise employers across retail, logistics, hospitality, healthcare, and food service to source, hire, onboard, schedule, and retain high-volume hourly workers. Its developer platform exposes a REST API — the Hire v2 API plus newer Workforce, Attendance, Scheduling, Compliance, Referral, Pool, and Pulse microservices — for programmatically managing applicants, openings, positions, locations, interview slots, workers, documents, custom attributes, and data exports. Authentication is OAuth2 client-credentials (with a legacy X-ACCESS-TOKEN key model on tenant hosts), webhooks are HMAC-SHA-256 signed, requests are rate limited to 120/minute, and deprecations are signaled with RFC 8594 Sunset headers.

Fountain publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Enterprise, Hiring, Recruiting, and Applicant Tracking.

The Fountain catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Fountain’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, authentication, and 22 more developer resources.

42.6/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-30 · rubric v0.17.2
AccessSelf serve
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyEnterpriseHiringRecruitingApplicant TrackingHuman ResourcesWorkforce ManagementOnboardingSchedulingHR TechFrontline

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-30 · rubric v0.17.2
Composite quality — 42.6/100 · developing
Contract Quality 10.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 11.1 / 20
Access Clarity 2.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.2 / 13
Contract Governance 2.2 / 12
Discoverability 7.6 / 10
Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Fountain Platform API

Fountain's REST API for managing hiring and frontline workforce data — applicants, openings, positions, locations, interview slots and sessions, workers, secure documents, label...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Fountain Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Fountain Authentication

oauth2/apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Fountain Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Fountain Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: fountain
name: Fountain
description: Fountain is an AI-powered frontline workforce management platform used by 500+ enterprise employers across retail,
  logistics, hospitality, healthcare, and food service to source, hire, onboard, schedule, and retain high-volume hourly workers.
  Its developer platform exposes a REST API — the Hire v2 API plus newer Workforce, Attendance, Scheduling, Compliance, Referral,
  Pool, and Pulse microservices — for programmatically managing applicants, openings, positions, locations, interview slots,
  workers, documents, custom attributes, and data exports. Authentication is OAuth2 client-credentials (with a legacy X-ACCESS-TOKEN
  key model on tenant hosts), webhooks are HMAC-SHA-256 signed, requests are rate limited to 120/minute, and deprecations
  are signaled with RFC 8594 Sunset headers.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/fountain/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- softbank-vision-fund
- y-combinator
x-tier: active
x-tier-reason: enriched
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
image: https://logo.clearbit.com/fountain.com
tags:
- Company
- Enterprise
- Hiring
- Recruiting
- Applicant Tracking
- Human Resources
- Workforce Management
- Onboarding
- Scheduling
- HR Tech
- Frontline
apis:
- name: Fountain Platform API
  description: Fountain's REST API for managing hiring and frontline workforce data — applicants, openings, positions, locations,
    interview slots and sessions, workers, secure documents, labels, notes, custom attributes, webhooks, and data exports.
    Combines the classic Hire v2 API with the newer Workforce, Attendance, Scheduling, Compliance, Pool, Referral, Media,
    and Pulse services behind the services.fountain.com gateway.
  humanURL: https://developer.fountain.com/
  baseURL: https://services.fountain.com/api/
  tags:
  - Hiring
  - Applicant Tracking
  - Workforce Management
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.fountain.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.fountain.com/reference/overview
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developer.fountain.com/reference/hire-api-overview
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/fountain-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/fountain-domain-security.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.fountain.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.fountain.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developer.fountain.com/reference/overview
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developer.fountain.com/reference/hire-api-overview
- type: Support
  url: https://support.fountain.com/en/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.fountain.com/blog
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.fountain.com/
- type: Login
  url: https://app.fountain.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://privacy.fountain.com/policies/en/?name=terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://privacy.fountain.com/policies/en/
- type: Security
  url: https://www.fountain.com/security
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://trust.fountain.com/
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://developer.fountain.com/reference/deprecations
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/fountain-authentication.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/fountain-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/fountain-conventions.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/fountain-rate-limits.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/fountain-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/fountain-conformance.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/fountain-webhooks.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/fountain-mcp.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/fountain-data-model.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/fountain-llms.txt
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/fountain-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/fountain-well-known.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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