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Shiftnest

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B2B software / SaaSTractionCanada
Active users
4.1K
Paying customers
65

The problem

Store managers lose hours a week texting staff to cover shifts, and no-shows cost retailers sales every weekend.

The solution

Shiftnest gives them a simple product that fixes this end to end, priced for small teams and live within a day of signing up.

Who it's for

Small and mid-sized organisations in our home market first.

Market

Bottom-up: ~40k target customers at ~$1,500 a year.

Competition and edge

What people use today

Spreadsheets and enterprise suites that are too heavy for this segment.

Why this team wins

Founders lived this problem for years and already have the first customers lined up.

The team

Olivia spent years on the customer side of this problem; Noah built the technical core at a previous company.

Worked together
1–3 years

About the founder

Olivia Tremblay

CEO & co-founder · Canada · 6 years of experience

Previously built products in b2b software / saas for six years; started Shiftnest after seeing the problem first-hand.

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