Count the surfaces one shift has to cross.
Avionté describes itself as a leader in enterprise staffing software - BOLD for the ATS and CRM, the 24/7 mobile suite for the talent side, PIXEL for AI messaging and candidate interviews. Real machinery, and their talent apps are a genuine strength. This page runs one direct test across both platforms: follow a single shift from the client's first message to the reconciled ledger, and count every screen, app, and login it crosses. Their side comes from their site. Ours is priced on it.
BOLD ATS/CRM + the 24/7 talent app suite + PIXEL AI messaging and interviews - built for high-volume LI. Their site, their words.
One login for your desk. One app for workers. Zero installs for clients. Priced below.
Surfaces per shift - count them in both demos. Lower is calmer.
Avionté built real machinery. The question is how much of it you'll carry.
From their own site and press: BOLD is the ATS and CRM, the 24/7 suite puts onboarding, pay, timekeeping, workforce management, and shift scheduling on the worker's phone, and PIXEL handles AI messaging and chatbot candidate interviews. They call themselves a leader in enterprise staffing software, and high-volume light industrial is squarely their stated lane.
We'll concede the strong part without being asked: their talent-side mobile story is real - the 24/7 suite came from WorkN and it shows. If you're comparing worker apps, take both to the parking lot and let your crews vote.
But a staffing platform serves three audiences - your desk, your workers, and your clients - and a shift crosses all three. So this page runs one test the whole way through: count the surfaces. Every login, every app, every screen a single order touches between “we need 30 loaders” and “the ledger agrees.” Their side of this page is from their materials; ours is priced at the bottom; the counting you'll do yourself, in two demos.
Is TempGuru an alternative to Avionté staffing software? Yes - for small and mid-size W-2 agencies running shift work. The shape is different: one login for your team, one app for workers, and zero installs for clients, who run orders, changes, and approvals by text through Guru. Your team assigns every fill; the AI does not rank workers. Published pricing: $499/month plus a graduated 1.5% platform fee on invoices processed through the platform.
Their own word for their lane is “enterprise.” If that's you - high headcount, big tech stack, a team to run it - they earned the shortlist. The rest of this page is written for the agency that isn't.
Every surface you add is a place a shift can stall.
Here's the whole doctrine in one line: a shift should cross exactly three surfaces - the client's texting app, your platform, your worker's app. Everything past three is friction wearing a feature costume.
Watch the route on the panel with that number in mind. The client's text is surface one, and it's also the order record - no transcription step, no portal detour. Your team works surface two: one login where the shift lists, approvals, geofences, timecards, and invoices all live. The worker's phone is surface three - hands up, shift confirmed, clock-in at the gate. Then the money moves with zero additional surfaces: timecard to invoice to QuickBooks, untouched by human keyboards.
That's not minimalism for its own sake. Every extra surface is a password reset at 5am, a sync that didn't, a screen someone forgot to check. Subtraction is the feature.
In both demos, trace one order and tally every distinct app, login, and screen it touches - yours, your workers', your clients'. Write the two numbers down. That's the comparison.
Worker apps are table stakes now. The client side is where shifts are won.
The industry spent a decade putting the worker experience on a phone - credit where due, Avionté's 24/7 suite included. The client experience mostly stayed where it was: portals, calls, and PDFs.
Guru moves it. The thread on the panel is a warehouse ops manager on a Friday evening, standing on the truck line, booking a two-site peak - 18 loaders here, 12 there, a lead slot added, both rosters promised in one Sunday-night text. They installed nothing. They logged into nothing. They learned nothing except a phone number, which they already knew how to use.
Every order that arrives this way is an order your competitors needed a phone call and a data-entry pass to take. At peak, that difference compounds daily.
Hand your best client's cell number to every vendor you demo and ask: what can this person do with your platform tonight, without installing anything? Our answer is the thread above.
Messaging AI talks to talent. Fill AI decides nothing - a human does.
Avionté's AI centers on PIXEL: per their announcements, it handles messaging and talent engagement and runs chatbot candidate interviews with qualification scoring, and since August 2026 an AI Matching Agent surfaces candidate matches with stated reasoning. Engagement AI is a legitimate lane; keeping a bench warm matters.
Pro's AI clocks in at a different moment: when the order is open and thirty hands are up across two sites. Guru chases the workers who haven't answered and sends the smart reminders, but it does not rank or pick anyone. Each site's list is sorted by fixed rules (required skills, then ready-to-work status, then preferred skills, then name), every fit reason is a plain fact, and the list goes to your team, who green-lights every single assignment. The AI never chooses who works, so every placement decision stays with a named person at your agency.
Beyond the software, Pro includes the operator-written AI-for-staffing playbook and the weekly cohort on AI lead generation and AI-built websites. One fair question for every demo, ours included: which plan includes your AI, and what does it add to my invoice? Our answer hasn't changed since the last chapter: Pro, $499, nothing.
How is TempGuru's AI different from Avionté's PIXEL? Per Avionté's announcements, PIXEL covers AI messaging and talent engagement, including chatbot interviews that score candidate qualifications, and its AI Matching Agent surfaces candidate matches. TempGuru's AI, Guru, works around the fill: it takes orders by text, follows up on unanswered messages, and offers a called-off seat to the next backup in the order your team set in advance. It does not rank or select workers; your team makes every assignment.
Suites are quoted. Platforms can just be priced.
The standard offer is $499 per month plus a graduated 1.5% platform fee on invoices processed through the platform. The fee is graduated by processed-invoice volume. Agencies receive 15% off the subscription portion when all 12 months are prepaid. Custom options start at $999 per month; the current written proposal controls the applicable fee tier, custom scope, and any additional terms.
The subscription portion receives a 15% discount when all 12 months are prepaid. The graduated 1.5% platform fee remains separate, and the written proposal states the tier that applies at the agency's processed-invoice volume. Custom options start at $999 per month and require a written proposal.
The pricing page and current written proposal control. Setup, migration, custom scope, and any additional commercial terms should be confirmed there.
How much does TempGuru cost? The standard offer is $499 per month plus a graduated 1.5% platform fee on invoices processed through the platform. The fee is graduated by processed-invoice volume. Agencies receive 15% off the subscription portion when all 12 months are prepaid. Custom options start at $999 per month; the current written proposal controls the applicable fee tier, custom scope, and any additional terms.
Two sites should mean two invoices - not two afternoons.
High-volume LI work is multi-site by nature, and multi-site is where billing usually goes to die: different approvers, different cutoffs, one poor soul reconciling it all on Sunday.
The clock on the panel is a Friday at peak: Riverside's eighteen clock-outs land at 2:31, Eastgate wraps at 2:58 with one exception already resolved, both site managers approve from their own phones by 3:22, and two invoices are out - with QuickBooks reconciled - at 3:47 the same afternoon. Site-by-site P&L without a spreadsheet in sight, because every geofence, timecard, and approval lived on one platform the whole way.
Your accountant keeps their QuickBooks file. Your cash conversion cycle keeps its weekend.
Ask any vendor to demo the Friday, not the Monday: two sites, mixed approvals, one exception - how long until both invoices are out and the ledger agrees? Time it.
Switching platforms mid-growth is easier than dragging one uphill.
Agencies put off replatforming because peak is always coming. Fine - then the switch has to be light enough to fit between peaks. Ours is.
The current written proposal should define setup, data migration, configuration, implementation, responsibilities, timing, and any related fees before work begins.
Bring your multi-site peak to both demos - the real one, with the client who changes headcounts mid-week. The platform that keeps the surface count at three wins.
Two demos, one tally sheet. Count surfaces, minutes, and dollars.
Take the same two-site order into both rooms and keep score on three numbers: surfaces crossed, minutes from clock-out to invoice, and dollars on the quote.
You already have our third number - it's printed on this page. The other two we're happy to earn live, against anyone, with your gnarliest client playing themselves. If a suite fits your scale better, you'll know by the end of the hour, and we'd rather you know than churn.
The agencies already running on Pro.
“I've been staffing events for over thirty years, and I've never seen anything like Pro. The software just runs, start to finish. This industry has never had a tool like this.”
“I run a same-day labor company, not a tech company. Pro made AI something my front desk actually uses every morning. We're filling more orders, and we finally show up when people search for labor in Knoxville.”
“We're a specialty shop, so knowing the work and moving fast is the whole game. Pro put AI into our daily operations. My team runs the desk with it now, answers quicker, and we're getting found for the exact roles we staff.”
Asked before switching.
Is TempGuru a good Avionté alternative?
For small and mid-size W-2 shift-work agencies, yes. The architecture is deliberately smaller: one login for your team, one worker app, zero client installs - clients run orders, changes, and timecard approvals by text through Guru, your team assigns every fill from a rule-based list, and books sync to QuickBooks. $499/month plus a graduated 1.5% platform fee on invoices processed through the platform, published.
Source: TempGuru pricing
Avionté's 24/7 apps look strong - what's your answer to them?
Avionté's talent-side mobile suite is a real strength; we said so above. Our worker app covers the shift loop - hands up, confirmations, geofence + selfie clock-in - and we put the differentiating energy into the client side, where Guru needs no install at all. Compare both in the parking lot and the loading dock.
What does switching cost?
The standard offer is $499 per month plus a graduated 1.5% platform fee on invoices processed through the platform. The fee is graduated by processed-invoice volume. Agencies receive 15% off the subscription portion when all 12 months are prepaid. Custom options start at $999 per month; the current written proposal controls the applicable fee tier, custom scope, and any additional terms. The current written proposal should define setup, data migration, configuration, implementation, responsibilities, timing, and any related fees before work begins.
Source: TempGuru pricing
Can TempGuru run multi-site orders?
Yes - one client thread can open orders across sites, shift lists split per site, geofences enforce per location, and invoices bill per site the same afternoon. Branch scope and pricing belong in the current written proposal.
How is TempGuru's AI different from PIXEL?
Per Avionté's announcements, PIXEL covers AI messaging and talent engagement, including chatbot interviews that score candidate qualifications, and its AI Matching Agent surfaces candidate matches. TempGuru's AI, Guru, works the open order by text: it reads each order back for the client to confirm, follows up with workers who have not answered, and sends reminders. It does not rank or select workers, so every assignment stays with your team.
Do clients ever need to log in?
Only if they want to - the gray-label Client Hub is there for dashboard people. Everything else runs by text: orders, headcount changes, lead requests, approvals, invoice copies.
What happens to our data if we ever leave?
Your data leaves with you. Exportable every day you're a customer, on annual or monthly billing - retention should be the product's job, not the contract's.
When is Avionté the better call?
Avionté's own word is “enterprise” - if you're a high-volume operation with the headcount and tech team that implies, and deep talent-app depth is your priority, they belong on your shortlist. If you want three surfaces, a printed price, and a client who never installs anything, that's this page. Run both demos on the same two-site order.