Most staffing software was built for clean workflows — one hire, one desk, one polite timeline. Your business is thirty servers in blacks by five, trays up, before the first guest is seated. TempGuru was built inside that mess — by a founder who owned staffing agencies and covered those 4pm gaps herself.

And your clients know the math: hourly turnover costs a hospitality operator around 30% of the position's annual pay, and lost productivity is more than half of that. An agency that fields reliable, repeat workers is worth a premium — so reliability is the product you're actually selling.

Order, fill, dispatch, clock-in, timesheet, invoice, pay. Run them in five tools and you become the integration — retyping, reconciling, apologizing. Run them in one and the data walks itself from the client's text to the paid invoice.

Guru is your client's entire interface, by text — they place orders, ask who's coming, change details, approve timesheets, and ask about invoices without ever logging into anything. The staff portal lets workers see open shifts and raise their hands — interest and availability flow in instead of being chased down. AI recommendations rank those hands by reliability and history; your coordinator approves every assignment. The mobile app clocks workers in with geofence and selfie verification. The Client Hub puts it all under your logo for clients who like dashboards — Guru covers the ones who don't. QuickBooks sync and e-signature close the books without a second job.

And because software alone never fixed an agency: Pro ships with an operator-written AI-for-staffing playbook and a cohort of agencies working the same problems.

Guru confirms and files the order in a minute. The AI ranks fourteen available workers four minutes later. Your coordinator approves six from the couch — dinner isn't cold yet. Workers confirm in the app; the client watches the roster fill in their Hub. Twenty-four minutes, no phone tree, no spreadsheet.

The service fee is simple: $10,000 in billed shifts = $250. It scales with revenue you invoiced, not seats you might use.

The fill is two-sided. Workers raise their hands in the staff portal; the model ranks the hands it can defend — availability, reliability score, history on this kind of shift — and shows its reasoning. No worker is assigned by a machine. The report builder answers plain-English questions and hands you the chart; you decide what it means. That shape is why agencies trust it — and, increasingly, why regulators require exactly it.

And let's say it now: someday a recommended worker will no-show anyway. The model flags the risk before call time, your coordinator sees it early, and backfill is one tap. Judge the system on the season, not one at-bat.

Essentials, $254/mo + 2% — the full platform: scheduling, dispatch, timesheets, invoicing, base reporting. For agencies replacing the spreadsheet.

Pro, $424/mo + 2.5% — everything above, plus the parts that replace your stack: Guru (clients run orders, changes, timesheets, and invoices by text — no login), AI recommendations, geofence clock-in, your-brand Client Hub, AI reporting, QuickBooks, e-signature, the playbook and cohort, same-day support. $499 month-to-month if you'd rather we re-earn it every four weeks.

Scale, from $999 — white-label on your domain, SSO, API, dedicated CSM.

Thursday, a hotel adds a Saturday wedding block by text; Guru files it and servers are notified by dinner. Friday, a caterer's count jumps 40; the AI ranks backups by banquet history and you approve four in a tap. Saturday, geofence check-in at the loading dock means no paper sign-in and no ghost on the clock. Sunday brunch, the client texts “who's on the omelet station?” and Guru answers before you see it. Monday, invoices go out same-day and QuickBooks agrees with itself.

You ran the room, not the spreadsheet. That's the product.

“Pro was built by someone who owned staffing agencies. This is the system we wish we'd had when we ran ours.”

Megan Hayward — Founder & CEO, TempGuru