The hourly hiring app made applying easy. Its next bet is harder: turning a crowd of applicants into people who actually start work.
A blueprint, a few pointed questions, and an interview slot: HRMC Acclaim turns the front end of hiring into one continuous encounter. Its wager is that employers lose good people long before they get to meet them.
A hospital trust cut average hiring time from 24 to 17 working days with Oleeo. The recruitment software company’s bigger test is helping employers move faster while keeping people in charge of the decisions.
Most hiring software records decisions and stops there. Journeyfront follows employees onto the job, then uses retention and performance data to make the next hiring class less of a guess.
impress.ai is a Singapore-based enterprise SaaS company that automates the recruitment workflow with AI. Its no-code platform uses conversational bots and structured, competency-based interviews grounded in I/O Psychology to source, screen, assess, engage and onboard candidates at scale. Enterprises such as DBS Bank, Singtel and Accenture use impress.ai to shorten time-to-hire, cut interview rounds and reduce bias while giving candidates a faster, fairer application experience.
Fountain is a San Francisco-based software company that builds an AI-native hiring and workforce-management platform for the frontline - the hourly, deskless, high-turnover workers who staff restaurants, warehouses, retail floors, delivery fleets, hospitals and factories. Founded in 2014, its platform sources, screens, hires, onboards and schedules workers at high volume, and it has moved aggressively toward autonomous 'agentic' AI with products like Frontline OS and its orchestrator agent Cue. Fountain says it helps more than 500 employers hire well over a million frontline workers a year, and counts brands such as Chipotle, Stitch Fix, GoPuff and Just Eat Takeaway among its customers.
LANDED is a New York- and San Francisco-based startup that builds generative-AI hiring software for high-volume, frontline employers - the restaurants, retailers, and hospitality chains that hire hourly workers by the thousands. Its platform automates the tedious parts of hiring - sourcing, resume reading, screening, text-message engagement, and interview scheduling - using proprietary AI models trained on data from more than two million hourly workers. Founded in 2019 by Vivian Wang and backed by Y Combinator, Javelin Venture Partners, Lightspeed, and others, LANDED serves 500+ brands including Five Guys, Cava, Panera, and Salt & Straw.
ModernLoop is a San Mateo, California recruiting operations platform that automates interview scheduling and candidate communication for talent teams. Founded in 2020 by former Slack and Facebook product leaders Lydia Han and Christopher Triolo, it syncs with calendars, Slack, Zoom/Google Meet, and every major ATS to coordinate interviews, balance interviewer load, and run branded candidate portals. In 2025 the company expanded into AI with Taylor AI, an always-on AI recruiter that automates phone screens, FAQs, and zero-click scheduling for high-volume hiring.