Know Exactly How Many Staff You Need Every Hour of Every Day
Stop overstaffing quiet periods and understaffing rushes. Spindle's AI analyzes demand patterns, productivity data, and real-world signals to tell you precisely how many people you need working—hour by hour, department by department.
Tomorrow
Tuesday, January 14
Peak Period Alert
2-4pm: Expect 40% higher volume. Recommend 2 additional staff.
Cost Savings Opportunity
8-10am: Reduce by 1 staff. Save $127 without impacting service.
Five ways to perfect your staffing.
Every feature exists to answer one question: how many people do you really need? Get precise, hour-by-hour staffing recommendations based on real data—not guesswork.
Demand Prediction
Forecast exactly how busy you'll be each hour using historical patterns, appointments, walk-ins, weather, and local events.
Real Productivity Data
Calculate needs based on actual employee productivity—not theoretical 100% capacity that never happens in reality.
Real-Time Disruption Alerts
Get notified about flight delays, weather changes, or traffic that will impact your staffing needs—while you can still react.
Intelligent Constraints
Respect labor laws, shift requirements, and operational rules. AI works within your constraints, not around them.
Cost Impact Visibility
See the financial impact of every staffing decision in real-time—both costs and opportunity costs.
Override Control
You're always the boss. Override any recommendation instantly—Spindle provides intelligence, not inflexible mandates.
Predict demand before your doors open.
Your biggest staffing mistakes happen when you're caught off-guard. A corporate account schedules 20 appointments and you're overwhelmed. Bad weather hits and half your appointments no-show.
- → Analyze historical patterns, appointment schedules, and walk-in trends
- → Factor in weather, traffic, and local events that affect your business
- → Get hour-by-hour recommendations like "2-4pm: Expect 40% higher walk-ins"
We're not guessing—we're using your actual data combined with real-world signals that affect your specific business.
Calculate needs based on actual productivity, not wishful thinking.
Most staffing tools assume every employee works at 100% capacity all day. Reality check: your experienced staff complete tasks 40% faster than new hires, and productivity drops 30% after 2pm.
Individual Productivity Tracking
Track actual productivity by employee type, task complexity, and time of day.
Time-of-Day Patterns
Mondays require 15% more time per task. Afternoons see productivity drops. We account for it all.
Supervisor Impact
Certain supervisors boost team efficiency by 20%. Factor leadership into your staffing equation.
Staff for Reality
You need fewer people sometimes, more at others—but now you know exactly when and why.
Stop saving pennies while losing dollars.
Without Cost Visibility
- ✗ Cutting staff saves $150 but creates $500 in overtime
- ✗ Long wait times lose customers worth $840 in revenue
- ✗ Overstaffing quiet periods wastes thousands monthly
With Spindle
- ✓ See exact cost of adding or removing each staff member
- ✓ Understand opportunity costs of understaffing
- ✓ Make decisions with full visibility into both costs
Example: "Reducing Thursday evening staff by 1 person saves $127 but increases wait times to 35 minutes, risking 3 lost customers (estimated -$840 revenue)."
Average reduction in labor costs
More accurate than last-week scheduling
Advance warning on volume spikes
Respect for your labor constraints
AI recommendations that respect your rules.
Labor Law Compliance
Build in minimum and maximum hours, required break schedules, consecutive day limits—AI works within all your constraints.
Minimum Coverage Rules
Set required coverage levels for each department and time period. Recommendations never drop below your minimums.
Instant Overrides
Override any recommendation instantly when unusual situations arise. Spindle provides intelligence, not inflexible mandates.
Stop overstaffing. Stop understaffing. Start optimizing.
See how Spindle turns staffing from guesswork into science. Get precise, hour-by-hour recommendations that maximize productivity and minimize waste.
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