AI Schedule Generation

Set your coverage rules and let ScheduleForward build a balanced schedule for you. You stay in charge — it does the heavy lifting, you review and publish.

Open the admin panel

The idea

Instead of placing every shift yourself, you tell the app what “covered” looks like — how many people you need, where, and when — and it fills the schedule in for you. It tries to spread the work fairly and respect people’s preferences. Then you check it over and publish.

It builds, you decide

The generator never publishes on its own. It hands you a ready-to-review schedule; you have the final say.

Set the rules

Say what coverage you need

For each location and time, set how many people should be on. This is the target the app aims to hit.

Lean on preferences

People’s availability and preferences feed in automatically, so the schedule fits real life better than a blind shuffle would.

The requirements editor distributing shift counts across members, marked balanced. — The requirements view: coverage targets per person and tag, kept in balance as the schedule fills.

Generate and review

Generate

Run it. In a moment you get a full schedule built around your rules, ready to review.

Check the coverage

The requirements view shows where you’re covered and where there are gaps, so you know exactly what still needs attention.

Adjust, then publish

Move anything you want by hand, then publish when it looks right. Don’t love it? Tweak the rules and generate again.

AI Schedule Generation FAQ

Does it publish the schedule automatically?

No. It builds a first version for you to look over. Nothing reaches your team until you review it and publish.

What if I don’t like part of what it made?

Change it. The generated schedule is a starting point — you can move shifts, swap people, or run it again with different rules.

What does it use to decide who works what?

Your coverage rules (how many people you need, where, and when) plus your team’s preferences and availability. The more clearly you set those, the better the result.

How do I know everything is covered?

The requirements view shows you, location by location, where you’re fully covered and where there are still gaps.

Draft Scheduling

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