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Scheduling that texts back.

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Tagout covers every dropped shift by text. It knows who's free, who's under 40, and who actually says yes. You never work the phones again.

  • ✓One price covers the house
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  • ✓We move you off your old scheduler
4:52

Tagout

on shift 24/7 · SMS

Hey Marisa, it's Tagout for Harbor & Vine. Dana dropped Friday close, 5–11pm. You're at 31 hrs. Want it?
Text message

Built forRestaurants, cafés, bars & retail

Runs on the phones your crew already carries. If they can text, they're trained.

The old way

Your scheduler is an app your staff ignores.

Push notifications get swiped away. The group chat spirals. So the coverage problem lands where it always lands: on the manager, mid-service, phone in hand. Add it up and covering shifts is a part-time job nobody applied for.

🍔 FOH crew (23)

Manager

Anyone able to cover Friday close?? Dana is out

Kyle

can't, sorry

Sam

who's out?

Manager

Dana. Friday. 5–11. Anyone???

Alexis

maybe? what section

Kyle

wait is this about saturday

…still not covered

The group-chat spiral. Twenty-three people, six replies, zero coverage.

The new way

Watch Tagout cover Friday.

This is the whole product in one scene: a real drop, handled end-to-end, while the manager stays on the floor.

1/5

5:12 PM: Dana drops Friday close

Shift droppedFri · tomorrow

Closing server

5:00 – 11:00 PM · Section 3

DL

Dana L. can't make it

“so sorry, family thing 😞”

Tagout picked it up. You keep expediting.

For the manager

Run the floor, not the phone tree.

The portal is fast. The thread is faster: text “Marisa called out tonight” and a ranked list comes back, ready to work. When an ask outgrows a text, the reply links straight into the portal.

Week of Mar 9

Publish

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Sun

Marisa T.

5–11
5–11
5–11
11–5

Jake R.

11–5
11–5
5–11
5–11
11–5

Katie S.

5–11
5–11
OFF
OFF
5–11

Devon K.

5–11
11–5
11–5
5–11
5–11
T

Tagout filled Friday 5–11 after Dana dropped it: texted 2 people, Marisa confirmed in 7 minutes.

Build the week in minutes, not Sunday nights.

Start from last week or a template. Conflicts get flagged while you build, not after you publish. One tap sends the week to every phone in the building.

Swaps and covers arrive pre-solved.

By the time a request reaches you, the hours, the roles, and usually the replacement are already handled. Your job shrinks to one tap: approve.

A server smiling at a text message on her phone between shifts

“Friday 5–11 just opened up. Want it? You'd stay under 40.”

the text she's smiling at

For your team

Zero training. It's just texting.

Swaps, pickups, availability: all handled by reply. The full staff portal is there when they want it, but it's a choice, not homework. The 19-year-old host and the 30-year vet both just text.

“Drop my Tuesday”

→ Tagout starts finding coverage

“What do I work this week?”

→ Week texted back instantly

Meet Tagout

The quiet operator on every shift.

Not a chatbot bolted onto a calendar. A coverage engine that works the way your sharpest manager does, and never sleeps.

Tagout

Coverage · nights, weekends, holidays

On shift
  • Call-outsZero, ever
  • DoublesHappily
  • Response timeAbout 40 seconds
  • July 4th weekendAvailable
  • TipsPolitely declined

Employee of the month, every month

Availability ✓ Hours ✓ Roles ✓

Reads the whole board

Availability, time-off, roles, stations, weekly hours: Tagout knows the same things your best AGM knows.

Marisa: 8 of 9 asks

Knows who says yes

Tagout learns each person's real pickup pattern and asks the likely yeses first, so shifts fill in minutes, not hours.

“omg yes 🙌”

Texts like a person

No robotic blasts. Short, warm, personal messages people actually answer, signed by your restaurant.

Heads-up at 1:15 PM

Escalates early, not at 4:55

Slow day for replies? Tagout warns you while there's still time to act, keeps working the list, and only hands you numbers to dial once every eligible person has been asked.

Real restaurant, real edge cases

Trained on the weird nights, too.

Anyone can fill an empty Tuesday. These are the moments that make a GM trust the system with the keys.

6:04 AM

Covered: Luis takes 8–2. Told Sam to feel better.

The 6 AM call-out

Sam calls out at 6:04. By 6:41, Luis has confirmed for prep. Your first notification arrives with your coffee, not your alarm.

11:40 AM

Thursday just got a 40-top at 7. Want me to add a server?

The 40-top on a Tuesday

A big party lands on the books. Tagout catches the bump, checks your usual coverage for that shift, and offers to staff up.

2:15 PM

Rain tonight. Anyone want the evening off? Two spots.

The rained-out patio

The forecast flips. Instead of eating labor on an empty patio, Tagout offers voluntary cuts. First replies win.

Always on

Curfew rule enforced automatically, every offer, every week.

The 17-year-old host

Minors can't close past curfew in your state. Tagout knows, so she is simply never offered the 11 PM shift. Compliance without a binder.

Week 4

Heads up: Dana has dropped 3 straight Fridays.

The quiet pattern

Third dropped Friday in a row? Tagout doesn't gossip to the group chat. It hands you the pattern, privately, with the history.

Before publish

Heads up: that swap means close Sat, open Sun at 9. Still good?

The accidental clopen

A swap would have Katie closing Saturday and opening Sunday brunch. Tagout catches the clopen and asks her first, so nobody finds it on the published schedule.

For restaurant groups

One pilot store. Then all of them.

Tagout rolls out the way ops leaders actually buy: prove it in one location, then scale on your calendar. Every GM gets the same dead-simple tool. You get the numbers that matter, roll-up clean.

  • ✓

    Group dashboard

    Coverage, open shifts, and OT exposure across every store, live.

  • ✓

    Shared talent pool

    Let Tagout borrow a closer from your store two miles away, rules included.

This week · 4 locations

AI active in all

Downtown

100%

0 open

Riverside

96%

1 open

Airport

92%

2 open

Midtown

100%

0 open

The switch

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Staff responds via

App they have to open

✓ A text they answer anyway

Open shift coverage

Blast + hope + call list

✓ Tagout finds, asks, confirms

Pricing

Modules, add-ons, tiers

✓ One house price, everything on

Put Tagout on the schedule.

Watch it cover a real shift in 20 minutes, then pilot it for 30 days with your old scheduler still running. If you don't stay, we refund your launch fee.

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