Scheduling · Pulse AI · Coaching

A healthcare schedule everyone trusts.

Save hours on scheduling, reduce overtime and overstaffing, and cut turnover, all with a tool your staff will love.

85%
Less time spent
building the schedule
$25K+
Saved on overtime
and overstaffing
$60K+
Saved per
provider kept
Soonest comprehensive platform: AI scheduling, shift management, payroll, Pulse AI, and coaching

Trusted by healthcare organizations

Utah Emergency Physicians logo, a Soonest client
House of Hearing logo, a Soonest client
University of Utah Health logo, a Soonest client
CarePoint logo, a Soonest client
Pure Pediatrics logo, a Soonest client
My Emergency Room 24/7 logo, a Soonest client
Utah Emergency Physicians logo, a Soonest client
House of Hearing logo, a Soonest client
University of Utah Health logo, a Soonest client
CarePoint logo, a Soonest client
Pure Pediatrics logo, a Soonest client
My Emergency Room 24/7 logo, a Soonest client
Utah Emergency Physicians logo, a Soonest client
House of Hearing logo, a Soonest client
University of Utah Health logo, a Soonest client
CarePoint logo, a Soonest client
Pure Pediatrics logo, a Soonest client
My Emergency Room 24/7 logo, a Soonest client
Utah Emergency Physicians logo, a Soonest client
House of Hearing logo, a Soonest client
University of Utah Health logo, a Soonest client
CarePoint logo, a Soonest client
Pure Pediatrics logo, a Soonest client
My Emergency Room 24/7 logo, a Soonest client

Manual scheduling fails schedulers, providers, and the organization.

Using a manual or unreliable scheduling platform costs your admins their time, your staff their voice, and your organization real money in overtime and turnover. Fix the schedule with Soonest, and everyone wins.

Schedulers are buried

15 to 20 or more hours per scheduling cycle spent chasing preferences, managing rework, and fielding swap requests. That is before EHR updates, compliance tasks, and everything else already on their plate. The burden is relentless and it never fully resets.

4+ full workweeks lost per year

Staff have no voice

Rotating schedules are built around coverage needs, not the people filling them. When staff have no way to submit preferences or flag what happens on shift, frustration accumulates quietly. Burned-out providers stop advocating for themselves and eventually stop showing up.

47% of physicians report burnout

The organization pays for it

Overtime from coverage gaps, turnover from staff who feel unheard, and recruiting costs every time a provider leaves. The schedule is the lever that moves all of it. When it fails, the financial impact compounds every pay period.

$60K to $100K to replace one provider

Soonest is built for both sides of the healthcare schedule.

The admin gets their week back. The staff get a voice and a tool they actually want to use. Each promise makes the other easier to keep.

For Admins

Robust. Hours and headaches back.

  • Rules, fairness, and constraints baked into every schedule
  • 15 to 20 plus hours of building and chasing cut to one click
  • Swaps, callouts, and coverage resolve without your inbox
  • Payroll, time clock, and reporting in the same system
For Staff

Effortless. Software they want to open.

  • Ask anything in plain language. No menus, no training needed
  • Trade, release, or pick up a shift in seconds from their phone
  • Preferences that are actually heard and reflected in the schedule
  • Full visibility into their hours, schedule, and open shifts
When staff love the tool, admins stop chasing them. Each side makes the other easier.

Meet the AI Schedule Assistant.

Your schedule, one question away. Staff and admins ask in plain language, get real answers, and take action from web or mobile without touching a menu.

  • "Who do I work with tomorrow?" answered in seconds, not a phone tree
  • Input preferences and schedule updates in plain language
  • Trade, release, or pick up shifts in one message
  • Request PTO and get it confirmed on the spot
  • Check anything on the schedule, any time, from any device
Soonest AI Schedule Assistant on mobile

Everything your team needs, in one place.

From AI-generated schedules to real-time wellness intelligence and targeted coaching, Soonest is built for the complexity of healthcare organizations.

Preference-based scheduling that builds itself

Staff set preferences, admins set rules, the solver handles the rest. Multi-location, multi-role schedules resolved simultaneously — no manual rework, no domino effect.

  • Auto-generates schedules from templates and preferences
  • Cross-location scheduling — all sites resolve at once
  • Schedule Grade — system rates fairness and constraint coverage
  • Draft → Review → Publish workflow — you stay in control
  • Staff see exactly which preferences were honored and why
Soonest schedule view

Trades, releases, and call-outs — handled without you

Three distinct workflows for shift changes. Staff self-serve through the platform. You set whether admin approval is required.

  • Trade: 1-for-1 swaps, direct or org-wide
  • Release: "I'd prefer not to work this, but I will if no one picks it up"
  • Call-out: Last-minute illness with immediate admin notification
  • Open shift marketplace — post to org or specific groups
  • "Need staff?" button connects to locum tenens partner
Soonest trade shift view

Clock in, clock out, export to payroll — done.

Time tracking built directly into the scheduling platform. Geofencing ensures staff can only clock in from the facility. Export directly to ADP, Paycom, Paylocity, or any provider.

  • Clock in/out from mobile or desktop with geofencing
  • Automatic overtime and differential calculations
  • Export to ADP, Paycom, Paylocity, and others
  • Real-time hours tracking by department and location
  • Flag discrepancies before payroll runs
Soonest Clock Sessions — time tracking view

Know how your team is doing before someone quits

A 30-second end-of-shift check-in. Staff rate how heavy the shift felt and optionally share what drove it. Pulse AI surfaces burnout signals, safety flags, and at-risk staff — so you can act before it becomes a retention problem.

  • "How heavy was today?" — 1–10 scale, voice or text response
  • Anonymous posting option — staff share what they actually feel
  • AI sentiment analysis, topic clustering, smart safety alerts
  • Predictive risk scoring by department and individual
  • Connected coaching recommendations for at-risk staff
Soonest Pulse AI

Targeted support driven by your team's own signals

Pulse AI identifies what your team needs. Coaching delivers it. From 1:1 burnout recovery to team-level facilitation and safety training — programs are recommended based on your actual data, not guesswork.

  • Burnout Recovery: 8-week 1:1 program for decompression and sustainable pacing
  • Resilience Training: Stress management, mental health first aid, recovery skills
  • Team Dynamics: Facilitation to rebuild trust, handoffs, and communication norms
  • Workplace Safety: Training for aggressive patient encounters and escalation
  • Leadership: New manager foundations, charge nurse programs, executive development
Coaching Programs
Recommendations powered by Pulse AI signals
AI Recommended
1:1 Coaching
Burnout Recovery
8-week program · Decompression, boundary setting, sustainable pacing
Team Seminar
Team Dynamics
Rebuild trust, handoffs, and communication norms across your team
Course
Workplace Safety
Aggressive patient encounters, escalation protocols, rapid response
Team Seminar
Resilience Training
Stress management, recovery skills, mental health first aid

Your new scheduling workflow.

The schedule takes the responsibility. It builds itself from staff preferences and your rules. When someone is unhappy, the fairness report answers for you.

1

Staff set preferences

Simple sliders, about two minutes, updated any time from a phone. No forms, no side texts to the scheduler.

2

The AI builds the draft

The solver resolves every location, role, and rule at once, then grades its own fairness before you ever see it.

3

You review and publish

Adjust anything you want, approve, done. The first pass is no longer your job.

4

Day to day runs itself

Trades, releases, and callouts move through the platform, not your inbox.

The platform pays for itself.

Every item on this page turns into a line item you can measure. One retained provider covers the cost, and the hours and overtime savings repeat every cycle after that.

Hours back every cycle

Your schedulers get 15 to 20 or more hours back per cycle, per location. That time goes to work that grows the organization instead of manual rework.

Save on overtime and overstaffing

See staffing gaps, overtime exposure, and coverage risk before they hit payroll. Labor decisions move from reactive to planned.

One retained provider covers it

Replacing one provider costs $60K to $100K or more. Pulse AI flags who is at risk before the resignation letter arrives. Most clients keep several.

Most tools only handle the schedule. Soonest also handles the people.

Built by physicians

Soonest was built because our founder was frustrated building his own group's schedules by hand. The product exists because the people who built it lived the problem.

Human + AI, not one or the other

Every client gets a dedicated schedule assistant, a real person who builds your setup, handles the details, and stays with you. Software alone does not solve the problem. Neither does a human working in spreadsheets.

End-to-end, not point solutions

Scheduling, shift management, payroll, wellbeing intelligence, and coaching in one platform. When everything connects, the data means something and the interventions actually work.

Built for healthcare organizations managing clinical schedules in-house.

We're not a general-purpose scheduler dressed up in a white coat. Soonest was built by and for healthcare providers who lived this problem.

Physician Groups

Physician-owned groups managing clinical coverage at one or more facilities. This includes emergency medicine groups, cardiology groups, anesthesiology groups, etc.

Urgent Care Chains

Regional and independent multi-location urgent care groups managing cross-location scheduling complexity, coverage gaps, and seasonal demand shifts.

Hospital Systems

Multi-department health systems managing scheduling across physicians, nursing, and support staff at scale — with regulatory compliance, float pools, and volume complexity.

Specialty Practices

Groups spanning multiple locations with complex scheduling rules, shared support staff, and varying shift structures across sites.

Freestanding Emergency Centers

Independent FECs requiring 24/7 EM-trained coverage at one or multiple locations, often with lean admin teams and physician-owned structures.

Physician Staffing Groups

Groups managing clinical coverage across multiple client facilities — with per-site rule sets and the coordination overhead that comes with contracted staffing.

Frequently asked questions.

Usually 3–5 business days from data collection to your first published schedule. Total time commitment on your end: about 4 hours, spread across a few short calls. Our Schedule Assistant handles the rest — entering users, shifts, locations, and constraints on your behalf.
QGenda and ShiftAdmin handle scheduling but leave the real work to admins and ignore the wellbeing side entirely. Soonest goes further: preference collection, multi-site resolution, and ongoing swap management are automated — and Pulse AI + Coaching address the root causes of burnout that scheduling alone can't fix. Plus, every tier includes a dedicated human assistant.
No download required. Staff can set preferences, view schedules, and manage shifts entirely from a browser on any device — even on a phone. Soonest also has a dedicated mobile app available for iOS and Android with the full feature set for staff on the go.
Yes. The solver is built around your constraints — shift minimums and maximums, role requirements per shift, location assignments, time-off blocks, fairness rules, and more. Your Schedule Assistant works with you to enter all of these during onboarding. Hard blocks and soft preferences are handled separately, so the system knows the difference between "I'd prefer not to" and "I absolutely can't."
Most groups using existing tools still have admins doing heavy lifting around preferences, rework, and swap management — and have no visibility into how their team is actually doing after every shift. If that sounds familiar, Soonest addresses both. The best way to evaluate: let us build you a free custom schedule from your real data. No commitment, no restructuring on your end — just send shifts, locations, and headcount in any format.
Soonest has three dedicated workflows for this: trade, release, and call-out. A call-out triggers an immediate notification to admin and opens the shift to the org. Staff can claim it directly through the platform. If your group uses locum coverage, there's also a built-in "Need staff?" button that connects to a locum tenens partner. Most coverage gaps get resolved without admin ever having to chase anyone down.

See Soonest built
around your group.

Tell us about your shifts, locations, and headcount, and we will tailor the demo to your actual scheduling setup. If you like what you see, your first published schedule is 3 to 5 days away.