Firstwork

Frontline hiring and onboarding is one of those problems everyone ignores until they're drowning in it. Restaurants need servers yesterday. Warehouses need forklift operators by Monday. Hotels need housekeeping staff like, last week. And yet most companies are still posting Indeed jobs, manually screening hundreds of applications, playing phone tag with candidates, and then praying show up on day one and somehow know what to do.

Firstwork is agentic AI that handles the entire frontline hiring and onboarding lifecycle—from job posting to first shift. It screens candidates, schedules interviews, sends offer letters, and gets new hires set up with training, paperwork, and role-specific prep before they ever walk through the door. Think of it as having an infinitely patient HR teammate who works 24/7 and never sleeps.

The frontline workforce is over 80 million Americans. Turnover in these roles hits 50-60% annually at many companies. Hiring managers spend roughly 30 hours per hire on admin work alone. Firstwork cuts that down to minutes. It's building AI that actually understands the urgency of "we need bodies on the floor tomorrow" and acts accordingly—no reminders, no follow-ups, no dropped balls.

We don't have founder names or funding to share here since they're running lean and early, but the problem space is massive and the solution makes too much sense to ignore.