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The shift that was too early for Jitjatjo
A staffing app built for a frantic call-out learned that managers also wanted to plan two months ahead. That change tells the larger story of Jitjatjo: a marketplace that kept discovering the rest of the shift.
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.
UKG Wants to Run the Workday - From the First Shift to the Final Paycheck
A $22 billion merger joined the time clock to the employee record. Now UKG is betting that its decades of workforce data - and a layer of carefully governed AI - can turn the machinery of HR into an operating system for work.
Doug Kreuzkamp Went From Conducting Music to Orchestrating Airports
He studied music, practiced law, pushed wheelchairs and cleaned 747s. Then Doug Kreuzkamp built Springshot around a deceptively practical idea: the best operations software should feel less like an order and more like a well-conducted ensemble.
Dylan Allen-Arnegård Is Turning the Humble Review Into AI Search Currency
He learned rejection door to door in Argentina, built NFC experiments in a Utah garage, and moved to San Francisco to help local businesses become legible to machines. Now the Cheers co-founder is betting that a five-star review can be both a thank-you note and a data point.
Aswin Andrison Keeps Following the Work Software Forgot
He delivered rice in Uber cars, rebuilt after a pandemic shutdown, and turned from restaurant storerooms to factory workstations. Across three startups, Aswin Andrison has kept asking the same practical question: where does work still hurt?
Jason Radisson Learned Work From the Night Shift - Then Built Systems for Millions
Before the algorithms came the warehouse, the kitchen and the boiler room. Jason Radisson turned an unusually wide education in work into a career scaling marketplaces - and a practical theory of how companies should treat the people who keep them moving.
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.
Movo Started With Shifts. Now It Wants to Prove the Work Actually Happened
After building a labor marketplace and then an autonomous scheduling engine, Jason Radisson found a sharper problem: honest care providers can do the work and still fail the audit. Movo’s new bet is a cheap tap, a chain of signals and a record designed to survive scrutiny.