Product · SaaS · Brand · Website / 2026

FairShift

Every roster is a fairness decision.

Rostering software for multi-site clinics that builds rosters legal by construction, scores fatigue on every shift and shares the hard shifts fairly. Product, optimiser, brand and website.

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Our role: Founder, product designer & AI-assisted builder
Credit: Independent founder project
Status: Early access · by invitation

FairShift website with the headline Every roster is a fairness decision beside a fatigue-load chart — The website leads with the idea behind the product: a roster decides who gets tired.

The brief

What FairShift needed

In a multi-site clinic, one manager can spend most of a working day each week holding the roster together: award rules, rest breaks, skill mix at each hospital, leave and preferences, then every sick call and swap. The cost of a bad roster lands on staff as fatigue and on the business as breaches found on payroll day.

How we approached it

Make the rules impossible to break.

Award and NES limits, minimum rest, recovery after night runs and contract hours are hard constraints. A shared rules engine checks every assignment live on the board, and the optimiser never proposes a roster that breaks one.

Show the working.

Auto-roster solves cover, fatigue and preferences in a fixed order, then shows a preview against the current roster: cover filled, rule breaks, nights and weekends per person, and any gaps it could not fill. Nothing is saved until the manager accepts.

Give staff a voice.

Staff join with a workplace code and add availability from their phone. Leave, swaps, open shifts and find-cover sit alongside push notifications and private calendar feeds. We designed and built the product with AI tools, owning the rules, decisions and checking.

Product strategy, pricing and roadmap
Multi-site roster board with live award and fatigue checks
Auto-roster optimiser with preview and accept
Staff preferences, leave, swaps, open shifts and find-cover
Multi-tenant Postgres with row-level security
Brand identity, website and installable web app

FairShift proposed roster summary with 171 of 172 required positions covered and no rule breaks — An auto-roster proposal for the synthetic vet group. Gaps it could not fill legally are listed for manual cover.

FairShift roster board for Northside Veterinary Hospital with proposed shifts outlined — Proposed shifts are outlined on the board. The staff list shows each person’s hours in the four-week cycle.

FairShift overview showing unpublished weeks, cover gaps and the safety rules in force — The overview puts what needs attention first, with the rule pack’s limits alongside.

FairShift on an iPhone showing a staff overview with the next shift and safety rules in force — On a phone, staff see their next shift and the rest and hours limits that protect them.

FairShift on an iPhone showing a weekly preference grid with prefer, avoid and unavailable blocks — Staff drag prefer, avoid and unavailable blocks onto their week. The optimiser weighs them when it builds the roster.

A test staff profile with the More menu open, showing notifications, the calendar feed and dark mode.

Project status & imagery

The website is public and the product is in invite-only early access. Desktop screens were captured from a local build connected to a development database seeded with a synthetic two-hospital vet group. Phone screens show a test staff account in a test workplace. None of the people or rosters are real. Award values follow the Animal Care and Veterinary Services Award 2020 and are being confirmed before production use. These captures do not establish customer numbers or time saved.

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