Home care

Built for independent home care agencies

First Shift is built for the owner, office manager or scheduler of an independent, non-franchise, non-medical home care agency. One office, 10 to 40 caregivers, a live caregiver ad on Indeed, and a client start date that isn't staffed yet. If that's your agency, this is the page for you.

Not for

• Franchise locations already running the brand's own hiring tool
• Medicare-certified home health agencies with an HR department
• Agencies with 50 or more caregivers and a dedicated recruiter

The checks you already do, flagged

Before a caregiver's first shift, you're already checking the registry, the background screening, TB and CPR by hand. In Texas that's the Nurse Aide Registry and the Employee Misconduct Registry. In California it's Live Scan and the CDSS Home Care Aide Registry. In Florida it's AHCA Level 2 background screening.

First Shift doesn't run any of these checks itself. It flags when an application doesn't state one, so you know what to verify before you call. Check your state's current rule, requirements change.

Ask it in plain English

Ask your pipeline a question the way you'd ask a person: “who are the best three candidates for the caregiver role, and why.” Semantic search finds the right applicants even when their resume doesn't use your exact words.

Connect Claude or ChatGPT to First Shift's read-only MCP server and ask from wherever you already work. It can't move a candidate, edit a record or send an email, it can only answer.

The emails you never get to

The good candidate who never heard back is the one who took another job. First Shift sends acknowledgements, not-this-time replies and interview time proposals automatically from an outbox, so every applicant hears something, and the only emails left for you to write are the ones that matter.

What it costs

Plans run from $49 to $199 a month, unlimited users on every plan, no per-seat fees. Every plan starts with a 7-day trial. See the full breakdown on /pricing.