Meet our founder
Ben Shaener
At just 15 years old Ben Shaener started FetchData to fix the problem he watched physician recruiters struggle with for years: finding and connecting with the right providers takes far too much time and effort.
8 years old
Sorting lead lists in a recruiting office
12 years old
Building the tools behind Assist ATS
15 years old
Founded FetchData
Now
Leo helping healthcare recruiters
Today, FetchData gives every healthcare recruiter their own AI assistant, named Leo, to work on their behalf. With Leo, recruiters are the boss. Leo handles the sourcing, answers providers' questions about the role, and finds out if it's a good fit. When a provider is interested and ready to talk next steps, the recruiter takes it from there.
The early years
Working in recruiting at 8 years old
Ben's earliest memory of the industry is from age 8. He sat in the office of his dad's locum tenens firm, working through long lead lists by hand to narrow down which providers a recruiter should call. It was slow, manual work: hundreds of names could take an entire day and produce only a handful of real conversations.
That office became his classroom. Growing up around recruiters, he heard firsthand what frustrated them and which tools were letting them down.
By 12, Ben was doing something about it. He started building the resume parsing and risk management tools that grew into Assist ATS, an applicant tracking system for recruiting firms where he still remains an owner today.
By high school, his days looked nothing like a typical teenager's. He went to class for half the day, then headed to the office and stayed until around 8 p.m. most nights, simply because he loved the work. But the problem Ben saw for recruiters never went away.
2024
Starting FetchData
Recruiters were still spending most of their day hunting for providers: digging through lists, chasing leads, and making call after call that rarely turned into a real conversation. Software helped them track candidates, but nothing helped them find and connect with the right ones.
In 2024, Ben came up with the idea for FetchData: a tool that does the searching and outreach for recruiters, so they only spend time with providers who are actually interested.
To bring it to life, he turned to an old friend for inspiration.
Meet Leo
FetchData's mascot is named after Ben's childhood dog
And like any good dog, Leo goes out and fetches what you need.
Ben wants every recruiter who works with Leo to feel like the boss, with their own agency working on their behalf. Recruiters delegate the tedious work to Leo and put sourcing on autopilot. That frees them to do what only people can: get on the phone with providers, go to events, tour facilities, and build real relationships.
Making recruiting joyful again
“You don't get burned out by working too hard. You get burned out by doing work you don't like. So if we can eliminate the work people don't like, then it's a game changer.”
To Ben, that's the whole point. FetchData takes the work recruiters dread off their plates, so they can spend their days doing what drew them to recruiting in the first place: building relationships and putting great providers where they're needed most.
Ready to spend more time with providers and less time hunting for them?
