Stop building the schedule. Run the ED.

StaffShiftr runs a real optimizer (OR-Tools CP-SAT) that puts safety and quality of life first — rest, day-after-night recovery, consecutive-night and shift-length limits, and fairness are the schedule’s top priority (with ACGME duty-hour limits layered on for resident shifts in teaching groups), honored whenever the math allows, with every trade-off shown. Coverage and credentialing stay airtight. Older tools make you babysit a run-timer for many minutes and hand back a different schedule each time; StaffShiftr finds the best balance, proves it’s optimal, and is reproducible — the same inputs always rebuild the same schedule. A built-in AI assistant turns plain-English requests into rule changes and explains every trade-off. And it’s priced transparently per provider — no mandatory sales demo, no setup fee.

Fairness is earned and target-based. The solver balances nights, weekends, and holidays toward each provider’s fair share given their FTE — not a flat split — and factors in each person’s stated preferences and bids. When someone asks why they are on a run of nights, there is a concrete, defensible answer rather than a shrug.

Yes. ACGME duty-hour limits for residents and ACEP shift-length caps for attendings are top-priority rules — and you can set any of them to a hard cap if your program requires it. For teaching services, resident/attending supervision ratios cap how many residents or APPs are on per supervising attending each staffed day (shown only for groups that actually have residents or APPs). Per-site rule profiles let one site run 10-hour shifts while another runs 12s, all at once.

StaffShiftr schedules physicians, not patients, so it does not store protected health information (PHI). For groups whose health system requires it for vendor onboarding, a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) is available on the Enterprise plan.

A quick draft returns a complete, balanced schedule within minutes, so you can iterate live with your group. A “thorough” build searches longer to prove the month is mathematically optimal — the version you run right before you publish. Even a large group of 50 providers across 6 sites returns a fully-covered, balanced monthly schedule within minutes — run the thorough build to prove it optimal — as a background job so you can close the tab and come back to it.

Yes, from their phone. Providers post shifts to a swap market or propose direct trades and request PTO. Every trade is re-validated against every rule before it reaches the admin’s approval queue, so a swap can never break coverage, rest, or credentialing.

Nine dollars per active provider per month billed annually ($12 month-to-month, $99/month minimum), with a 30-day full-feature free trial and no setup fees. Enterprise adds SSO/SAML, a BAA, and priority SLAs.

Yes. StaffShiftr supports multiple sites with independent rule profiles, day/swing/night shift types, and provider archetypes like nocturnists, day-only physicians, and mixed-schedule APPs — configured once and applied on every build. Reusable rule profiles (“contracts”) let you assign one set of limits to a whole cohort — part-time, nocturnist, senior-partner — so each group schedules to its own rules.