DREAM Hire Engine™ | Franchise Hiring for Multi-Unit Operators | aha! Talent Experts
DREAM Hire Engine™ by aha! Talent Experts

Every location hires like your best location.

Your best location runs itself. Your worst one runs you. We help franchise and multi-location business owners hire good people without sitting in on every hiring decision themselves.

14 days. 30 AI credits. No credit card required.
Stop refilling the same seats

You have SOPs, software, and standards. So why do your locations still perform unevenly?

75-130%
Typical annual turnover for hourly teams. Some locations churn their entire crew more than once a year.*
$2,300-$6,000
What it costs to replace a single hourly employee once you count hiring, training, and lost productivity.*
$80-$250/day
What every unfilled seat costs you in overtime, lost sales, and manager hours, every single day.*

*Source: Homebase, 2025 hourly workforce research.

The gap between your best location and your worst is almost never the manual. You cannot standardize the output of a location if you cannot standardize who you put in it. The root cause is hiring for availability instead of fit, and it is fixable.

The math on your locations

What is turnover costing you right now?

Move the sliders to match your operation. The numbers update instantly.

5
15
120%
$3,500
Your estimated annual turnover cost
$315,000
Cut turnover 15%, you keep$47,250
Cut turnover 25%, you keep$78,750
Cut turnover 35%, you keep$110,250

Estimates based on your inputs and published replacement cost ranges (Homebase, 2025). Savings scenarios are illustrative, not a guarantee of results.

Your AI hiring team

Five specialists. Trained on your culture. On call 24/7.

Generic AI does not know your culture, your roles, or how to interview for fit. The DREAM Hire Engine™ does, because it is built around five trained specialists, each one owning a stage of the DREAM Hire Framework™.

The DREAM Hire Engine AI recruitment team celebrating a great hire
Joey, The Culture Strategist
D · Define
The Culture Strategist
Joey

Defines what makes your best people your best people, so every location hires to the same cultural standard instead of each manager's gut feel.

“Wow.” The most common reaction owners have after their first session with Joey.

Rafael, role scorecard specialist
D · Define
The Role Architect
Rafael

Turns "we need another crew member" into a role scorecard: what the job really requires, what great looks like, and how you will know it when you see it.

Priya, job ad specialist
R · Reach
The Job Ad Expert
Priya

Writes benefit-forward job ads that lead with why the right person will love the role, so you attract candidates who fit instead of everyone who is available.

Malik, sourcing and recruitment marketing specialist
E · Engage
The Sourcing Specialist
Malik

Builds your channel-by-channel sourcing plan so you stop depending on one job board and start reaching the people your competitors never see.

Elena, interview and evaluation specialist
A · Assess
The Interview Coach
Elena

Arms you and your managers with structured interview questions that tie directly to the needs of the role and your culture, so every location interviews to the same standard.

Andrea Hoffer
M · Motivate
And behind them all
A real human coach

Every plan includes the Hiring Huddle, live group coaching with Andrea twice a month. A chatbot cannot give you a coach and a peer group. This one comes with both.

How it works

From "we need people" to a live, working hiring system

1

Define your culture with Joey about 5 to 10 min, when needed

One guided session captures what actually makes your best location your best, in language you can hire against.

2

Build the role scorecard with Rafael about 25 min

Every open role gets a clear definition of what great looks like, before a single ad goes out.

3

Publish a job ad that attracts fit with Priya about 5 to 10 min, when needed

A benefit-forward ad, written for the person you want, ready to post wherever you hire.

4

Source beyond the job boards with Malik about 5 to 10 min, when needed

A practical sourcing plan for your market, your roles, and the channels your competitors ignore.

5

Interview with structure, with Elena about 5 to 10 min, when needed

Structured questions and follow-up probes, tied to the role and your culture, that separate the people who interview well from the people who work well.

Your first role can be live within 2 to 3 days, with about an hour of setup. The Engine works alongside whatever ATS you already use.

The DREAM Hire Framework™

Hiring is not a project you finish. It is a flywheel you turn.

Most operators start from zero on every open role. The Engine does not. Each turn feeds the next one, so the tenth hire takes a fraction of the effort the first one did.

The DREAM Hire Framework: Define roles and culture, Reach quality candidates, Engage candidates effectively, Assess for the best fit, Motivate to keep the team engaged
D
Define Joey and Rafael

Your culture profile and role scorecards. Built once, reused on every role and every location after that.

R
Reach Priya

Benefit-forward job ads written for the person you actually want, published where you hire.

E
Engage Malik

A sourcing plan that goes after the people who are not scrolling job boards, channel by channel.

A
Assess Elena

Structured interview questions tied to the role and your culture, so every location interviews to one standard.

M
Motivate Andrea and the Hiring Huddle

What you learn about keeping good people goes back into the culture profile, which sharpens the next Define.

Why your tenth hire is easier than your first

Turn 1, your first role

About an hour of setup. You define your culture from scratch, build one scorecard, publish one ad.

Turns 2 to 5

Your culture is already defined. New roles start from your existing standard, so you are editing rather than creating.

Turn 10 and beyond

A role library, proven ads, and a sourcing plan that knows which channels work in your market. Every location hires from the same playbook.

Results

Owners who stopped refilling the same seats

2 to 3 days
From signing up to a defined role and a published job ad working for you.
To your first live role
About an hour
The total time it takes you to stand the whole system up. The Engine does the rest of the work.
Of your time, once
90 days
Work the system and if you have not made your first great hire, we keep working with you at no extra cost until you do.
The First Great Hire Guarantee
“
Screening that took 10 to 12 days now takes less than a day.

The Engine compressed the slowest part of hiring into hours, across multiple locations at once.

Andrea JonesMulti-Unit Franchisee, Nothing Bundt Cakes
“

Two great employees, hired for fit, and my whole team adores them. That is what hiring against your own culture, instead of a generic checklist, actually gets you.

Michelle McFarlandOwner, Ivoryology
Pricing

Choose the tier that fits your growth stage

Every tier includes your culture profile, role scorecards, job postings, and the Hiring Huddle. Sourcing and interview guides start at Grow.

Build
For single-location owners who are always hiring
$99/mo
  • 1 location
  • 50 AI credits per month
  • Organizational culture profile
  • Role scorecard for every role you open
  • Job posting written for you
  • Hiring Huddle coaching, twice monthly
  • Works alongside your existing ATS
  • Candidate sourcing
  • Interview guide build
Month-to-month. Cancel anytime.
Scale
So every location hires like your best location
$799/mo
$80 to $160 per location per month
  • 5 to 10 locations
  • 1,000 AI credits per month
  • Everything in Grow
  • Multi-location hiring scorecard
  • 30 / 60 / 90-day onboarding plans
  • White-glove setup
  • Quarterly strategy session with Andrea
  • Manager hiring certification (coming soon)
3-month minimum. Add locations beyond 10 for $99/location/mo.

Operating 10+ locations, multiple brands, or a portfolio?

The DREAM Hire Portfolio Program is built for multi-brand operators, franchisors, and investment groups: per-brand culture architecture, certified managers, location-level scorecards, and quarterly business reviews.

Multi-Unit & Portfolios

Optional add-ons, quoted on request: branded career site, one-way video screening, candidate tracking, talent pool with nurture campaigns, custom landing pages, fractional head of talent. The Engine works alongside any ATS you already have.

1 AI credit = 1 message to your AI hiring team. You get usage warnings at 75% and 90%, and extra credit packs are available on any tier.

The free trial

Walk out of your trial with real work done

14 days and 30 AI credits, enough to experience the Engine on one real role. Plan on an hour or two of your time. No credit card required.

01

Your culture, defined

A written culture profile from your first session with Joey.

02

A role scorecard

Your hardest-to-fill role, defined so you would recognize great on sight.

03

A live job ad

Benefit-forward, written for fit, ready to publish where you hire.

Start your free trial Prefer to see it first? Book a demo

The 90-Day First Great Hire Guarantee

Work the system and if you have not made your first great hire within 90 days, we keep working with you at no additional cost until you do. You take the risk out of hiring. We take the risk out of trying us.

You are not doing this alone

The Hiring Huddle

AI gives you speed. The Hiring Huddle gives you judgment. Twice a month, join Andrea and a community of franchise and multi-location owners for live group coaching on whatever hiring problem is in front of you right now.

  • Live group coaching twice a month, every session recorded
  • Bring your real roles, real candidates, and real hiring problems
  • Learn what is working from operators in other brands and markets
  • Included with every paid tier, at no extra cost
Andrea Hoffer, founder of aha! Talent Experts
Included in every plan
Live coaching, twice a month

Because software alone has never fixed a hiring problem. The owners who win at hiring have a system and a coach. The Engine gives you both.

Fair questions

What operators ask us before they start

Will AI really understand our culture and our standards?

It does not start with a generic idea of a good employee. It starts with yours. Your first session with Joey captures what actually makes your best people your best people, in your own language, and everything after that works from that profile: the role scorecards, the job ads, the interview questions.

You own it, you can edit it any time, and it sharpens every time you hire. That is the difference between a chatbot and a system that remembers your business.

How do I know it pays for itself?

Run the calculator above with your own numbers rather than ours. A five-location operator with 15 hourly employees and 120 percent turnover is losing roughly $315,000 a year to churn. Build is $99 a month. You do not have to move turnover much before this stops being a close call.

And you are not betting the year on it. Month-to-month on Build, 14 days free to try it on a real role, and the 90-Day First Great Hire Guarantee behind it.

We do not have anyone technical to set this up.

There is nothing to install, integrate, or configure. You answer questions in plain English and each specialist hands you a finished document: a culture profile, a role scorecard, a job ad you can publish that day.

Setup runs about an hour in total and your first role can be live within 2 to 3 days. On Scale, white-glove setup means we do it with you rather than hand it to you.

Is this trying to replace my recruiter?

No. It replaces the guesswork, not the people. If you have a recruiter or an HR lead, the Engine hands them defined roles, better ads, a sourcing plan, and interview guides they are not writing from scratch, so they spend their time on candidates instead of paperwork.

If you do not have one, it gives you the structure a good recruiter would have brought, at a fraction of agency cost. Humans still make every hiring decision. The Engine never rejects anyone for you.

Do we have to change the software we already use?

No. The Engine works alongside whatever applicant tracking system you already run, and alongside the job boards you already post to. It sits upstream of all of it, deciding who you are looking for and how you will recognize them, which is the part most systems skip.

We do not hire that often. Is this worth it for us?

Possibly not, and we would rather tell you now. If you are filling fewer than three roles a year, the flywheel never really gets turning and you will not see the compounding that makes this worth paying for.

It earns its keep for operators who are hiring continuously or opening locations. If that is not you yet, run The Hiring Detective on your current job posting for free and come back when it is.

Not ready for a trial?

See what your job posting is costing you, before you spend a dollar

The Hiring Detective reads your current job posting and tells you exactly where it is losing you candidates, then points you at the specialist who fixes each gap. It takes a couple of minutes and it is free.

Most postings we see fail the same three ways. Here is what a real report looks like.

The Hiring Detective
The Hiring Detective
Sample report
Assistant Manager, quick service
3-location operator · posting live 26 days
Gaps found, in priority order
1
The ad opens with a list of requirements. The first thing a strong candidate reads is what you want from them, not why they would want the job. Fixed by Priya, The Job Ad Expert
2
Nothing in the posting says what success looks like in the first 90 days, so every applicant is guessing and so is every interviewer. Fixed by Rafael, The Role Architect
3
One posting channel. Every applicant is coming from the same board, which means you are competing on pay with everyone else on that board. Fixed by Malik, The Sourcing Specialist
Your report lists every gap found, in priority order, with the fix for each one.

Sample output shown for illustration. Your report reflects your own posting.

A note from Andrea

I built this because I needed it

I have owned and operated my own franchise location, and I have spent more than a decade working with multi-unit operators on one stubborn problem: the gap between the location that hums and the location that hurts. It is almost never the manual, the menu, or the market. It is who got hired, and how.

The DREAM Hire Engine™ is everything my team and I do for our recruiting clients, the culture work, the role scorecards, the benefit-forward job ads, the structured interview questions that tie directly to the needs of the role and culture, built into a system you can run yourself, with me and a community of operators behind you. You should not have to sit in on every hiring decision to trust every hiring decision.

Andrea HofferFounder, aha! Talent Experts. Franchise owner. Author of Hire Higher.

Stop refilling the same seats. Start hiring like your best location.

14 days. One real role. No credit card. See what your hiring looks like with a system behind it.

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