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When we set out to make an AI rostering platform, the team at Rosterlab encountered many, many Excel spreadsheets. We’ve also wound up making innumerable spreadsheets ourselves. It's part of the territory of rostering, and also part of the territory of testing a rostering AI. In this post, we go into the how what, and why of the new Rosterlab Free Tier (the who is us, and when is sign up here now).

Staff rostering has a tremendous amount in common with the ideas explored in one of my favourite movies, Moneyball. Like Brad Pitt, rosterers have to squeeze a winning amount of productivity out of their team, while staying within a limited budget.

In healthcare, making a roster is easy; if you have excess staff who are happy to work whenever. If you don’t have a workplace utopia, rostering is an arduous struggle to balance the myriad trade-offs within the roster of: staffing numbers, contractual obligations, fairness, individual happiness and the hours it takes to find the right balance.