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Fountain Labs

Building what's next for frontline work

Fountain Labs is the innovation team at Fountain. We work side by side with customers to find the problems that matter most to frontline employers, prototype AI agents and new products to solve them, and turn what works into Fountain products.

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A community for HR Ops leaders putting AI to work in frontline hiring. Trade skills and prompts, build together in live sessions, and learn with peers.

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Things we've built

Most projects start with a real customer problem and a scrappy prototype, and many build on Cue, Fountain's AI for frontline hiring. Every screen here uses sample data.

Mockup: a starter prompt from a team's Cue playbook, asked in Cue, which answers with a short list of applicants
Ongoing

Cue playbooks and workshops

Cue prompts in your team's own words

Spring 2026 to now
 Mockup: a one-line request in Slack, the agent's progress in the thread, and the finished branded demo account
In use at Fountain

Demo Account Agent

Tailored Fountain demo accounts from a one-line request

Since April 2026
 The beta timeline, from kickoffs to Cue's public launch, beside Cue's home screen in a demo account
Launched

Launching Cue with customers

A hands-on customer beta before Cue's public launch

March to April 2026
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Where we build together

We'd rather show than tell. Our events put HR and talent leaders hands-on with AI, from sample-data workshops and demo workspaces to building in their own Fountain accounts at our Cue Power User Conference (CPUC).

Small team, short loops

Labs is where Fountain tries new ideas before they're products. We start from real customer problems, put prototypes in front of real users early, and hand what works to Fountain's product and engineering teams.

  1. 2022

    Labs starts with new hire onboarding experiments.

  2. 2023

    The onboarding work moves to a dedicated product team, and later becomes Fountain Onboard.

  3. 2024

    Discovery for Fountain Shift, and a prototype worker support inbox.

  4. 2025

    Fountain's first CHRO Summit, where Labs ran a hands-on build session, and a run of hands-on AI workshops.

  5. 2026

    Cue launches with customers, and our first Cue Power User Conference.

Want to build with us?

Labs works with a small group of customers on most experiments. If there's a workflow you'd love to take off your plate, we'd like to hear about it.

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