Plants used to call for seasonal spikes. Now they staff ongoing production through you, across every shift — the demand is year-round and a gap on nights costs as much as a gap on days. TempGuru was built inside that reality — by a founder who owned staffing agencies and covered those overnight gaps herself.

The pool churns hard — the average industrial temp cycles out in about ten weeks — and every station has its own skill. Machine certs, line experience, and reliability scores stay attached to each worker, so the operator you dispatch is cleared to run that station, not just fill a headcount.

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.

Monday, the plant adds a third shift; text recruiting and ranked recs fill it before the line runs. Tuesday, a machine cert lapses — the worker is held off that station automatically, so there's no quality or safety risk. Wednesday, geofence clock-in catches a break-room punch before it reaches an invoice. Thursday, the plant manager pulls live fill rate and shift coverage in the Hub instead of calling you. Friday, invoices go out same-day and QuickBooks agrees with itself.

You covered every shift without living in 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