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Logile, Inc. and the hidden arithmetic of a supermarket
A supermarket sells dinner, but runs on thousands of small decisions. Logile connects the forecast, the shift and the fresh-food counter so those decisions can finally agree.
Dripos Wants Your Coffee Shop to Have Fewer Logins
The founders set out to give independent cafés a mobile ordering app. Then they discovered the more interesting business: retiring the other software a coffee shop had to juggle.
The Shift Nobody Wanted to Schedule
Humanity began with a runner who kept losing weekends to bad schedules. Its more useful lesson is what happened after growth made the numbers look better than the customers felt.
BrightHR Put the Awkward Parts of Being a Boss in One Pocket
Leave requests, late shifts, payroll handoffs and risk assessments rarely belong in the same conversation. BrightHR built a business by putting them in the same app - with a lawyer or safety adviser available when the software runs out of answers.
Fingercheck Wants to Turn Every Clock-In Into a Paycheck - Without the Payroll Spreadsheets
Fingercheck started with a digital time clock. Now it is chasing a larger prize: making the messy handoff from shift to paycheck disappear for the small businesses legacy payroll software tends to overlook.
Fourth Put AI on the Schedule - Now It Wants to Run the Whole Restaurant
The hospitality software veteran already helps millions of workers clock in, swap shifts and count stock. Its bigger bet is that twenty-five years of back-office data can tell every restaurant manager what to do next.
Connecteam Found Its $800 Million Idea in Four Words: ‘What Promotion?’
A waiter missed one message from headquarters. Connecteam’s founders saw an entire workforce missing its operating system - and turned a narrow training tool into a three-hub business used from construction sites to restaurant counters.
Samuel Roy learned to grow Agendrix by listening when the numbers said start again
A brutal investor meeting forced the Agendrix cofounder to rethink the model. The response became his operating method: hear the criticism, study the customer, and keep the useful part.
Agendrix Took 30 Months to Reach $10K MRR - Then a Cabin-Built Time Clock Put 235,000 Workers on Its Schedule
The Quebec SaaS company survived ignored pitches and two years of tiny salaries by solving one dull, expensive problem at a time. Its playbook is useful precisely because it begins with a spreadsheet, not a moonshot.
7shifts Fired Two-Thirds of Its Customers - Then Built the Restaurant Back Office
The Canadian scheduling startup found its edge by walking away from most of its market. Now 55,000 restaurants use it to turn sticky notes, shift swaps and payroll math into one connected system.
Workday or UKG Depends on How Your People Work
The real HCM choice is not a feature-counting contest. It is a decision about whether your hardest problem lives in the enterprise data model or on the next shift.
LIFELENZ
LIFELENZ is an AI-driven workforce management platform for large hourly and shift-based employers, best known in quick-service restaurants. It uses self-tuning machine learning to forecast demand store-by-store, then builds optimized, compliant schedules and handles time & attendance, people management and reporting. Founded in 2017 with technical roots in Australia, it now serves major QSR brands including thousands of McDonald's restaurants across the US, UK and Ireland.
Harri
Harri is a cloud-based human capital management and workforce management platform built specifically for the hospitality and frontline service industries. Founded in 2012 by hospitality operators, it unifies talent acquisition, onboarding, scheduling, time and attendance, compliance, and employee engagement into a single mobile-first system. Harri serves enterprise restaurants, hotels, and retailers - powering the operational backbone for tens of thousands of locations and millions of frontline workers, helping high-turnover, multi-location businesses hire faster, control labor costs, and keep teams engaged.
John Waldmann
John Waldmann is the founder and CEO of Homebase, the team-management app built for the people who run local businesses - restaurants, salons, retail shops and the hourly teams behind them. Started in 2014 after watching a childhood friend drown in paper schedules and his sister juggle unpredictable bartending shifts, Homebase now serves more than 150,000 businesses and 3.8 million workers, processing hundreds of millions of shifts a year with scheduling, time clocks, payroll, messaging and earned-wage access. A Stanford GSB grad who once sold tuxedos and started his first online business at 13, Waldmann is an unapologetic believer in accountability over consensus, 'operating velocity,' and the idea that AI will create more small business owners, not fewer.
Homebase
Homebase is a San Francisco-based workforce management platform built for small businesses running hourly teams. Founded in 2014, it combines employee scheduling, time tracking, payroll, HR compliance, and team communication in one mobile-first app. As of 2024, the platform serves over 150,000 businesses and 3.8 million hourly workers, having logged 8 billion hours and processed $3 billion in gross payroll. Backed by $198 million in total funding, Homebase competes by bundling tools that small business owners previously paid for separately - and more recently by embedding AI assistants across hiring, scheduling, and payroll.