What it does
Scheduling by hand either overstaffs quiet days or leaves busy ones short. The builder treats the week as an optimisation problem: cover the forecast workload at the lowest cost without breaking any employment rule, then explain any trade-offs it had to make.
Who can use it
- Department and store managers
- Operations and HR coordinators
- Owners doing the schedule themselves
Where it fits
- Any team that works shifts and whose workload changes by day
How to use it
- Enter or load the workload forecast per day
- Add staff with their availability, wages and skills
- Set the rules such as minimum rest and maximum hours
- Build the schedule and review any rule warnings
- Export to Excel to share
Limitations
- Rules are set up for Ontario's Employment Standards Act and need changes for other provinces
- Large teams (hundreds of staff) solve slowly in the browser
What's next
- Restaurant and retail templates with role mixes
- Staff availability from a shared form
- Other provinces' rules
Run it on your own data
- In the browser (today)Free, no sign-up. What you enter stays on your device. Good for trying it and for small teams.
- On your files or databasePoint the same logic at your exports or a database view (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Azure SQL or DuckDB), on your own machine or network.
- As a pipeline and warehouseA scheduled ETL job pulls from your systems (reservations, point of sale, inventory, payroll) into a star-schema warehouse, runs data-quality checks, and the tool or a Power BI report reads the result every morning.
What that adds here
- A solver on a server handles large teams in seconds
- Read availability and time-clock data from your HR or payroll system
How I'd set it up for you
I'd map your exports or database to the tool's model, package the job in a container that runs on your server or cloud account, add the checks your data needs, and hand over the code and a runbook. Your data stays on your systems. Get in touch if you'd like it fitted to your business.
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