We learn your rules, collect requests, model the hard constraints, and deliver a fair, publish-ready schedule in 3 weeks. You review the fairness numbers before it goes out. If the group does not accept the schedule, you do not pay.
Timeline
First live schedule in 3 weeks
Proof
Used by Trident Anesthesia for 6 months
Guarantee
If the group does not accept it, you do not pay.
Ask an anesthesia group how call gets built. You will hear some version of this.
One physician owns the spreadsheet.
Two physicians can lose 6–12 hours a cycle between them, sometimes more, and nobody else wants to inherit the job.
Requests come in from everywhere.
Hallway asks. Mid-case texts. Old email threads. Half get lost. The other half conflict.
Fairness is a gut feeling.
Weekends and holidays feel uneven. Nobody can show the math, so every publish restarts the same argument.
You already looked at scheduling software.
It wanted your rules reduced to a settings page. It still needed a human babysitter.
No generic demo. We build around your rules, your people, and your next cycle.
We interview the partner or scheduler who currently owns the process, plus the physicians who know where the land mines are. Post-call rules. Golden weekends. Site mix. Pairing issues. We capture it and model it. You configure nothing.
Your clinicians get one place to submit vacation and call preferences. We import your past schedules so fairness accounting starts from history, not from zero.
We generate the draft and walk you through the numbers: weekends, holidays, requests honored, and open conflicts. We revise until it is ready. Then you publish one source of truth.
Before You Publish
That changes the conversation from opinion to numbers.
Example review dashboard
Proof
NiceSchedule started with Trident Anesthesia. Before us, two physicians were spending 6 to 12 hours each cycle between them building call by hand and fielding the usual complaints about weekends, holidays, and exceptions.
Trident has been using schedules built with NiceSchedule for the last 6 months. That is why the product looks the way it does: requests in one place, historical fairness carried forward, and a review screen that shows the group the draft before it goes out.
6 mo.
In live use
2
Physicians previously building call
6–12 hrs
Per cycle before NiceSchedule
You are not buying seats. You are buying a scheduling process that works.
Rule-Capture Interviews
We interview the people who know the schedule best and turn unwritten rules into something the system can actually honor.
Custom Scheduling Model
Your constraints get encoded into a solver built for anesthesia call, not forced into a generic template.
Historical Fairness Import
If you have past schedules in spreadsheets, we import them so the system knows who's been carrying the load. Fairness starts from history, not from scratch.
One Place for Requests
Vacation, preferences, and exceptions come into one place on one deadline. No hallway asks disappearing into the void.
First Live Draft, Reviewed With You
We build the draft, walk through weekend spread and holiday load, and revise before anybody in the group sees it.
Published Schedule + Ongoing Access
After the pilot, your group keeps the request portal, published schedule, vacation calendar, and fairness dashboard.
If the group does not accept the first schedule, you do not pay.
If we build the first schedule and your group decides it is not a workable replacement for the current process, we walk away without invoicing the pilot. We can make that guarantee because the hard part happens up front: listening carefully, modeling the real rules, and reviewing fairness before publish.
Pilot pricing depends on group size, sites, and complexity. Most pilots land between $2,500 and $7,500.
This is for you if…
This is NOT for you if…
Alternative
Some groups come to us when they are thinking about hiring someone just to collect requests and build call every month. NiceSchedule belongs in that conversation. It is closer to a part-time scheduler than another software rollout: one place for requests, a draft built around your real rules, and fairness numbers ready before the arguments start.
We'll ask about group size, sites, post-call rules, and what is breaking in the current process. Then we'll tell you if this is a fit, what the pilot would cost, and how quickly we could start. No pitch deck. No generic demo.