KOVR · 2025–2026
A city-based shift marketplace for multi-location employers and flexible workers: post public or private jobs, build a vetted roster, auto-schedule by reliability and distance, track live shifts and approve timesheets, with a worker mobile app and AI assistants that answer from live data.
read how it was built ↓Shift hiring still runs on agencies, group chats and spreadsheets. Agencies are slow and expensive, manual coordination double-books people, and workers cannot see what is nearby. KOVR is a technology platform rather than a staffing company: employers keep the relationship with their workers, and KOVR handles matching, scheduling and the operations tooling.
Employers work on the web and workers on their phones, but both talk to the same API, so a change on one side shows up on the other in real time.
A public job is open to everyone nearby. A private job is visible only to a vetted roster, so regular staff and new hires are handled in the same tool.
Role and time validation blocks overlapping or illegal assignments, so double-booking is stopped by the system instead of found on the day.
The auto-scheduler ranks workers and shows the reasons: availability, rating, distance, reliability, skills and past performance. The employer can override and invite.
Clock-ins, breaks, tasks, photos and guest counts feed one operations view, and timesheets can be approved with edits and notes.
Billing is per city, permissions are scoped to locations, and a city that is not live yet takes a waitlist instead of an empty map.
Staffing agencies fill shifts for you, slowly and at a markup, and they sit between you and your own workers. Group chats and spreadsheets are free but double-book people and leave no record. General job boards help you find candidates, but stop before scheduling, attendance and pay.
KOVR is built around the shift itself:
Role and time validation sits in the API, so overlapping or invalid assignments are rejected no matter which screen created them.
Onboarding checks availability from GPS or the chosen city. If it is not live, the worker joins a waitlist and sees their place in line.
Events are routed by role, delivered in-app first with email fallback and retries, and users set preferences per category.
SuperAdmin is gated by an environment-set identity and a separate short-lived token, returns a 404 to everyone else, and logs every action.
I designed KovrPay: Stripe moves the money, and KovrPay handles orchestration, onboarding, batch payroll and the filings.
KOVR runs as a web dashboard and a mobile app on one API, launching in Edmonton. These numbers describe what was built. There are no usage figures on this page.
White-label contractor payout infrastructure for shift platforms. Stripe moves the money; KovrPay orchestrates onboarding, batch payroll, T4A, and CRA — Kovr is client #1.
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