The team that founded Plain has spent 18 years in the shift-scheduling industry. Not as PowerPoint consultants, but in the trenches: implementing complex projects in hospitals with 24/7 on-call rosters, hotels with rotating shifts, manufacturing plants with collective-agreement constraints, and retail chains with over 50 locations.
There was powerful software out there, yes. With impressive features in demos. But when the moment of truth arrived, HR managers always ended up in the same place: opening Excel.
Because there was a massive gap between functionality and automation for non-technical users. Existing systems gave you 47 options, 200 configurations and a learning curve of weeks. But they didn't give you the one thing that mattered: a button to generate the perfect schedule automatically.
That gap is what Plain was built to close.
We took 18 years of expertise in hospitals, hotels, industry and retail. We compressed it into AI algorithms that understand the real constraints of each sector. And we wrapped it in an interface so simple that a non-technical manager can master it in 10 minutes.
The result: organisations that generate perfect schedules in seconds — no Excel, no errors, no last-minute scrambles.
We're not a startup experimenting. We're industry experts who decided to build the tool we ourselves needed 18 years ago.