What Shift Agent does
Every Sunday you rebuild the week by hand — guessing how busy Friday will be, chasing coverage when someone calls out, and hoping you didn't trip a spread-of-hours or overtime rule.
Plugs into
Built for
Shift Agent
- ✓It drafts
- ✓It covers
- ✓It guards
Plugs into
- ▸Toast
- ▸Resy
- ▸OpenTable
- ▸Works with any POS
Where the money goes
Three leaks Shift Agent closes
Your Sunday night, gone
Building a fair, balanced week by hand eats 3–8 hours — every week. Then one call-out unravels it and you're back on your phone chasing coverage instead of running your floor.
Staffing on a guess
Schedule by gut and you overpay on dead nights, then get buried when a 40-top you never saw walks in. Without the reservation book in the math, labor percentage drifts over target a little more each week.
One rule slips through
Overtime past 40 hours, spread-of-hours pay, clopening turnarounds, minor-hour limits — full-service New York restaurants owe all of them. Miss one and it resurfaces as back-pay, penalties or a soured employee.
Dollar and percentage figures are industry estimates for independent New York venues, or simulated demo results. Your real baseline gets measured on site during onboarding.
How it works
Three steps, no new software
It drafts.
Blends eight weeks of sales history with your live reservation book from AgentHood Host to forecast demand, then builds a balanced, budget-aware week in under a minute. You approve by text.
It covers.
When someone calls out at 10:47pm, it texts the right qualified staff, confirms the swap and updates everyone's live schedule — usually in minutes, without waking you.
It guards.
Before anything publishes, it scans every shift for overtime, spread-of-hours, clopening and minor-hour rules and flags the fix. You always approve the final schedule.
Why AgentHood
Built for your room, not a chain
The big scheduling apps were built for chains with a full back office. We built Shift Agent for independent owner-managers who lose their Sunday to a spreadsheet and their Friday to a no-show. It's the only scheduler that reads your reservation book, so staffing reflects who is actually booked — and it's built for New York's labor rules, not a generic national template.
— Jason PieroniFounder, AgentHood Operators
You approve every word
Nothing this agent says to a guest goes out without your tap. Sensitive moments route to your phone, your voice is set from your own menus and the way you actually talk, and you can turn any behaviour off in one message.
Shift Agent