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7. Team & Vision Report
team & vision report
the team behind shiftly
Three operators and engineers who lived this problem firsthand, now building the fix themselves.
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the team
Built by people who had lived this exact scheduling problem.
Marcus Reyes
CEO and Co-Founder
A decade running schedules for a 120-location restaurant group convinced Marcus that spreadsheets were quietly bleeding every operator dry.
Priya Anand
CTO and Co-Founder
After building the forecasting engine at a workforce-analytics startup acquired in 2023, Priya knew hourly scheduling needed the same rigor.
Jordan Wells
Head of Product, Co-Founder
Years designing operations software for frontline teams taught Jordan that workers deserve the same visibility managers already have.
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CEO and Co-Founder
Marcus Reyes
Marcus Reyes spent a decade as regional operations director for a 120-location restaurant group, owning labor cost across every store. He built schedules by hand in spreadsheets, watched managers overstaff slow nights and understaff busy ones, and absorbed the payroll surprises that followed each month. After a quarter where three stores blew their labor budget in the same week because nobody could see cost until it was too late, Marcus decided the industry needed a system that forecast labor cost before the shift started, not after payroll ran. He co-founded Shiftly to build exactly that system.
linkedin.com/in/marcusreyes
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CTO and Co-Founder
Priya Anand
Priya Anand built the forecasting engine at a workforce-analytics startup that was acquired in 2023, spending years turning messy point-of-sale and foot-traffic data into hourly demand predictions retailers could trust. After the acquisition, she watched larger vendors bolt her forecasting work onto calendar-first scheduling tools as an afterthought, disconnected from the labor-cost numbers managers actually needed. She kept meeting operators who wanted forecasting built into scheduling from day one, not layered on top of it. When Marcus described the same gap from the operator's side, Priya recognized the missing piece and co-founded Shiftly to put forecasting at the center of scheduling instead of the edge.
linkedin.com/in/priyaanand
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Head of Product, Co-Founder
Jordan Wells
Jordan Wells spent seven years designing operations software for frontline retail and hospitality teams, focused on the tools workers actually touch every day. Across dozens of deployments, Jordan noticed the same pattern: managers got dashboards, and workers got nothing, not even visibility into their own upcoming pay or the ability to swap a shift without calling a manager. That imbalance felt backwards. When Marcus and Priya described building a forecasting engine for managers, Jordan pushed to give hourly workers the same transparency, and co-founded Shiftly to make sure the worker app was never an afterthought.
linkedin.com/in/jordanwells
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