Why Kordis works
The way you run it now works. It just all runs through you.
Kordis wins when an owner feels two things at once: the relief of the work leaving their hands, and the confidence that nothing reckless is happening underneath.
The re-typing
The same worker lives in the scheduler, the payroll file, the spreadsheet, and the text thread. Every copy creates another place for the truth to drift.
The chasing
Confirmations, no-shows, missing cards, worker questions, client changes. None of it is hard once. It is hard because it never stops.
The remembering
Who can work where, what got promised, which client needs which rule. The system of record is still too often the owner's head.
Your real three options
Three ways to run the desk. Priced honestly.
Hire another coordinator
$2,000 to $3,000 or more a month before payroll taxes, and they sleep, take weekends, and eventually leave. Kordis is one flat monthly price and answers the 5 a.m. text.
Point a general chatbot at it
It doesn't know your workers, your clients, or your province's rules. It can't call anyone, and it guesses. Kordis runs on your own records, checks the rules that change by province, and stages every action for your OK.
Keep the spreadsheet
Free, except the payroll evenings, the no-show scrambles, and the cards you find out about late. The old way has a monthly cost. It just never sends an invoice.
All three keep you the decision-maker. Only one hands the work back.
What changes
The same week, with the weight moved.
No new management theory. No software project. The work that used to sit in your phone, your memory, and ten tabs moves into one calm loop: staged, checked, approved.
Your Tuesday, 6:12 to 7:48 a.m. Calls made by you: 0
On it. Nothing needs you yet.
Nothing goes out without your OK.
$24.7B
Canada's staffing industry, most of it still filled one phone call at a time.
Statistics Canada · ACSESS
The real cost
The real cost was never the price. It's the hours.
We won't hand you a calculator full of your own money. The thing a staffing desk actually runs out of is time. Here's where the week goes by hand, and where Kordis hands it back.
Owners lose about half the week to admin — scheduling, follow-ups, re-typing the same names. Kordis carries that half.
So your hours go to the work only you can do: the calls that need your read, the clients who know your name, the next move for the business.
By hand
With Kordis
Pre-screening applicants
By hand15–35 minutes a call — the same fifteen questions, over and over.
With KordisScreened as they apply, scored with evidence. You read the shortlist, not the call sheet.
Confirming the week's shifts
By handHours of calls and texts, every single week.
With KordisDrafted and staged before you wake. You tap OK.
Covering a 6 a.m. no-show
By handA scramble of calls before the client even notices.
With KordisCaught, backfilled, and staged — before your alarm goes off.
Running payroll
By handFour to eight hours a week, by hand.
With KordisDrag in your hours. It's done in minutes.
Credential & reference checks
By hand15–30 minutes each, then days of waiting on callbacks.
With KordisTracked and scored against your own records — gated per shift, your call.
By-hand times are published industry ranges (pre-screen 15–35 min a candidate; payroll 4–8 hours a week; owners and recruiters spend roughly half the week on admin). Your numbers will differ. Kordis stages every action for your one-tap OK — you stay the one who decides.
Not generic AI
ChatGPT answers questions. Kordis does the work.
Ask a chatbot about a no-show and you get advice. The work is still yours to do. And it was trained on the whole internet, where your staffing desk is a speck: it can sound right and still miss the rule, the credential, or the client promise that makes the answer safe.
Kordis was built entirely around staffing work, inside a Canadian agency. It is not trying to be clever about everything. It is built to be reliable at this.
A general AI
Trained on the whole internet — billions of documents.
Example
“Two pickers just texted 'can't make it' for tomorrow's 6 a.m. shift. Who do I send?”
A general chatbot
“Here are some general tips for handling last-minute staff absences: keep an updated contact list, consider an on-call pool…”
A guess — it has never seen your roster.
Kordis
“Maria R. and J. Osei: both carded, inside commute, under weekly hours. Offers staged for your OK.”
SHIFT-1180 ↗Click it. See the record.
Your spreadsheet never made a decision in its life. You did.
Excel computes; you decide what the numbers mean. Kordis works the same way on the whole desk. It works the phones, reads the documents, matches the hours, and lays the results in front of you with sources attached. The judgment never leaves your chair.
The safe on-ramp
Most staffing agencies are already testing better tools. The question is which one you can actually trust.
Kordis makes the AI era feel familiar: plain English in, your own records underneath, sources you can click, and approval before anything reaches money or people.
56%
of agencies running on no AI at all shrank in 2025.
31%
of heavy AI users did.
StaffingHub · 2026 State of Staffing Benchmarking Report
It knows the staffing work
Availability, credentials, hours, who can work at which client, distance, rules, and regulars are checks it already runs. You never have to explain your own desk to it.
It proves where answers came from
Numbers and recommendations point back to your own records. If Kordis cannot prove it, it says so instead of sounding confident.
Money and people wait for your OK
Every text, every hire, every payroll file is staged first. Nothing that touches money or people goes out until you say so.
The 10 checks
Before a worker is offered a shift, Kordis checks the things your best dispatcher checks in their head.
Availability, hours, cards, distance, who can work at which client, skills, training, and the rules that change by province. If someone is ruled out, you see why in plain English.
Example
Maria R. · tomorrow 6:00 a.m.
- Available for the window
- Under weekly hours
- Cards current
- Not double-booked
- Not on do-not-dispatch
- Inside their commute
- Rest + hours rules
- Not blocked by this client
- Has the required skills
- Training up to date
You stay in control
Kordis doesn't replace the owner. It gives one owner the reach of three: a recruiter, a dispatcher, and a payroll clerk.
The product is designed around your approval because the relationships, standards, and judgment are the valuable part of the business. Kordis carries the work so you can spend your day on the conversations that need you.
2 covers staged, nothing sent
Source: SHIFT-1180
Sat 8:00 AM · Riverside
Maria R. · card current · staged
Sat 5:00 PM · Grand ballroom
D. Kaur · Smart Serve current · staged
See it work on your own data before you decide.
Bring a recent week's roster. Kordis will show the work on your own records, with the sources visible and the final call still yours.
On your own data. No credit card.