ShiftWiz is the work of one person. The scheduling engine, the web application, the Chrome extension, the backend API, the landing page, the test suite, the deployment pipeline. All of it. One developer.

I am not saying that to be impressive. I am saying it because it has real implications for the kind of software ShiftWiz is, and the kind of product it will continue to be.

Every decision was intentional

When a feature made it into ShiftWiz, it made it because I decided it was worth building. Not because a product committee debated it for three quarters. Not because a sales team needed it to close an enterprise deal. Not because a VC told me the TAM looked better with it on the roadmap.

The 25 intelligence features in the scheduling engine exist because scheduling is genuinely complex and I wanted to solve it properly. Simulated annealing exists because greedy algorithms produce mediocre schedules. Forward-checking backtracking exists because without it the engine gets stuck. Multi-seed selection exists because a single run is not enough to find the best result. These were engineering decisions made by someone who cared about correctness, not about shipping a feature fast enough to make a sprint deadline.

The result is software that is dense with intentionality. There is no filler. There are no features that made it in because they were easy to build or because they looked good in a demo. Everything in ShiftWiz is there because it makes the scheduling problem easier to solve or the result better.

No per-seat fees, no upsells, no tiers

The pricing model for ShiftWiz is $29 per month for everything, with no limit on employees. That is a deliberate decision.

Per-seat pricing is standard in this category because it is how you extract more revenue as customers grow. It makes good business sense if maximizing revenue is the primary goal. It makes bad product sense if you actually want customers to use the tool fully and grow with it.

I have no interest in a pricing model that punishes you for adding employees to the system. ShiftWiz gets more valuable as your team gets bigger. More employees means more constraints to optimize, more fairness history to track, more complexity where the engine earns its keep. The pricing should reflect that value, not tax it.

You can reach the person who built it

When you send a message to business@shiftwiz.app, you are reaching me. The person who wrote the scheduling engine. The person who can tell you exactly why the forward-checking threshold is set the way it is and what happens if you push a team past its coverage constraints.

There is no support team routing tickets through a CRM. There is no layer of documentation written to deflect simple questions. There is a developer who knows this codebase completely and can answer questions about how it actually works.

That is unusual for software at this price point. I intend to keep it that way.

What solo-built means for reliability

Building alone has tradeoffs. There is no one to catch my mistakes before they ship. There is no dedicated QA pass before a release. There is no second opinion on architectural decisions.

I address this with a 37-test suite that covers the core engine, authentication, and tenant isolation. I address it with a structured audit process. I address it by building in a way that makes bugs visible: the scheduling engine scores every output, so when something goes wrong the score tells you. The test suite runs against engine-core in isolation so regressions are caught before they touch user data.

Is it perfect? No. But it is honest. I know what I have built, I know where the edges are, and I am continuously improving it. The alternative — a team that moves fast, ships often, and breaks things — is not inherently more reliable just because it has more people.

This is personal

I built ShiftWiz because I watched someone I care about do something hard and tedious every week that a computer could do better. That is a real motivation. It is not a pitch. It is the reason the engine has 25 intelligence features instead of 5. It is the reason I kept improving it long after it was "good enough." It is the reason I know every constraint the engine considers, because I wrote every one of them thinking about a real person's real problem.

That is what you get with ShiftWiz. Software built by one person who needed to get it right.