The product, front to back
A scheduler with hands.
Most scheduling software shows you the hole in Friday night. Tagout is the first one that gets out of the chair and fills it.
The coverage engine, in motion.
5:12 PM: Dana drops Friday close
Closing server
5:00 – 11:00 PM · Section 3
Dana L. can't make it
“so sorry, family thing 😞”
Tagout picked it up. You keep expediting.
Week of Mar 9
Fully coveredMon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
Marisa T.
Jake R.
Katie S.
Devon K.
Tagout filled Friday 5–11 after Dana dropped it: texted 2 people, Marisa confirmed in 7 minutes.
Scheduling
The week, built before your coffee cools.
Templates for your Tuesday and your Saturday, plus pre-built rotation formats that keep sections and closes fair week to week. Availability, time-off, and role conflicts flagged inline while you build, not discovered by an angry text on Friday.
Swap Thursday close
Jake ↔ Devon · Both under 35 hrs · same role
Drop Sunday brunch
Katie S. · Tagout already has 3 candidates
Pick up Saturday patio
Marisa T. · No conflicts found
One tap each. Tagout handles the back-and-forth.
Swaps & covers
Staff trade shifts. You tap approve.
A server texts “swap my Thursday with Devon.” Tagout checks hours, roles, and rules, lines it up, and hands you a one-tap decision. The entire negotiation happened without you. The authority didn't.
Weekly hours
1 near overtimeJake R.
38.5 / 40 hrs
Marisa T.
31 / 40 hrs
Devon K.
26 / 40 hrs
Katie S.
29 / 40 hrs
Tagout never offers a shift that would push someone into overtime. The expensive surprise just stops happening.
Labor guardrails
The cheapest overtime is the kind that never happens.
Set weekly caps and labor targets once. Tagout routes around them automatically on every offer, swap, and pickup. Managers stop doing mental math at 11 PM; owners stop finding surprises in payroll.
This week · 4 locations
AI active in allDowntown
100%
Riverside
96%
Airport
92%
Midtown
100%
Multi-location
Every store on one screen. Every GM on the same tool.
Group dashboards roll coverage and overtime exposure up to ops leaders, while each GM keeps a tool simple enough to love. Shared staff pools let Tagout borrow a closer from the store two miles away, with your rules.
Hey, Marisa
Harbor & Vine · this week
My week
Open near you
Fri 5–11 PM · Server
Keeps you under 40 hrs
Managers get an app worth opening.
Staff never need one.
Tagout is a full platform: managers get a fast web portal (schedule builder, approvals, labor dashboards, Tagout's activity feed) and staff get their own portal for the week, open shifts, and time-off. The SMS layer sits on top, so nobody is forced to open an app for the everyday stuff. That's why adoption isn't a rollout project.
Fair questions.
What if someone doesn't want texts?+
They opt in when they join and can text STOP anytime. Anyone who prefers the staff portal just uses that; Tagout adapts per person. In practice, texting is the option staff pick for themselves.
Does Tagout ever text the whole roster?+
No. That's the group-blast problem we exist to kill. Tagout ranks everyone eligible by availability, hours, role, and real yes-history, then asks them one at a time, in order, until the shift is covered. It warns you early if replies run slow, and only once the entire list has been asked do you get names and numbers to dial.
Can managers override Tagout?+
Always. Tagout drafts, ranks, and asks, while you set how much it does on its own, from “suggest only” to “handle it and tell me after.” Every action is logged and reversible.
What about tip pools, POS, and payroll?+
Tagout exports clean hour data for payroll and is built to sit alongside your POS. Tell us your stack in the demo and we'll show you exactly how it fits.
How long does setup actually take?+
Import your current schedule, text your staff one onboarding message, set your house rules. Most single locations are live inside a day, often inside a shift.
See the whole thing in 20 minutes.
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.