Hire, Retain, and Empower Employees at Speed in the Age of Agentic AI

Frontline hiring is no longer just an HR function, it’s a direct driver of revenue, service levels, compliance exposure, and retention. In high-volume environments, even small inefficiencies in time to hire, candidate conversion, or process consistency can create significant downstream impact. For organizations hiring thousands of hourly workers across distributed sites, a two-day delay in filling a warehouse, care, or service role is a direct hit to revenue and operations. Yet many organizations are still operating with disconnected systems, causing them to miss hiring targets and have a growing strain on recruiters and site managers. How are organizations regaining control while keeping pace with demand?

Leading organizations are shifting their focus from reactive hiring to more intelligent workforce operations. That means improving visibility into the hiring funnel, identifying where candidates drop off, and creating more consistent execution across locations. It also means reducing manual effort, enabling faster decision-making, and aligning HR and operations around shared outcomes like time to fill, conversion, and workforce readiness. As hiring demand fluctuates, the ability to adapt in real time has become critical to maintaining performance.

Now, a new paradigm is emerging: agentic AI in HR. With solutions like Cue from Fountain, organizations can move beyond dashboards and static systems of record to a conversational interface for their entire hiring operation. Cue lets HR and Ops leaders ask questions, surface where things are breaking, and act on what they find, with agentic workflows rolling out over time to handle more of the work automatically.

Join peers and industry leaders for a candid discussion on where hiring operations are breaking down today, how organizations are improving speed and consistency without increasing risk, and how agentic AI, and Cue specifically, is redefining the future of HR by shifting teams from managing processes to managing outcomes.