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You don't know what you're worth.
The café down the street pays $2.45/hr more for the exact same job. Nobody tells you.
Coming soon
Your next move is $5/hour away.
A career app for hourly workers. See what local employers actually pay, the skills that get you to the next role, and a verified profile that travels with you.
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Pilot cities Q3 2026
7
Industries at launch
$0
Always free for workers
ROADMAP TO LAUNCH
NOW
Waitlist open
Sign up · pick your industry
Q3 2026
San Jose pilot
First 5,000 workers · 20 employers
Q4 2026
+ 2 cities
Expanding by demand
2027
Nationwide
Every industry, every city
WHY NEXTSHIFT
72 million Americans work by the hour.
None of them have a map.
LinkedIn was built for desk jobs. Indeed is a search box. Nothing was built to actually move a shift worker up. So we built it.
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There's no career ladder posted anywhere.
What's between Barista and Manager? What skills, how long, how much more? Total mystery.
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Your experience doesn't travel.
3 years of perfect shifts? You start from scratch every application. Resumes can't prove reliability.
HOW IT WORKS
One app. Three powers.
01 · CAREER GPS
See the exact steps to your next role.
Tell us your job, your city, your skills. NextShift draws the path. Every role, every wage, every cert between you and the top of your industry. Each step is timed and priced so you know what you'll earn, what you'll learn, and how long it takes.
Tailored to your industry: barista, warehouse, CNA, and more
Each step shows real wages, time estimates, and skills you need
Side branches for pivots, because nobody goes straight up
02 · WAGE TRANSPARENCY
Know what you're worth, by employer.
Live pay data from real workers at real cafés, warehouses, stores, and hospitals near you. See where you fall against the local median and the top 10 percent. Pay stops being a secret you only find out the day you quit.
Crowdsourced from 1,200+ workers per role per city
Sortable by employer, distance, and pay trend
Anonymous reporting protects your job
03 · VERIFIED PROFILE
One profile. Every employer trusts it.
Your skills, hours, and reliability, verified by managers who actually worked with you. Apply with one tap. No resumes, no "years of experience" guesswork, no starting from zero every time.
Past managers verify your skills with a single tap
Show-up rate, retention score, and shift count travel with you
You decide who sees what (your current employer is hidden by default)
BUILT FOR YOUR INDUSTRY
We don't pretend everyone's
career looks the same.
Each industry gets its own roadmap, its own wage data, and its own visual metaphor. Because a barista's path isn't a forklift driver's path.
Baristas
Warehouse
Drivers
Retail
Servers / bartenders
Construction
CNAs / care
Auto / mechanics
COMING SOON
Cleaning / facilities
COMING SOON
OUR PROMISES
What we'll never do.
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Charge workers. Free, forever.
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Resumes you'll ever upload
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Recruiter spam in your inbox
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Wage data sold to third parties
FOR EMPLOYERS · LAUNCH PARTNERS
Be the first employer in your city.
We're hand-picking 20 founding employers across cafés, restaurants, retail, warehouses, and care facilities. You get early access to verified candidates, founding pricing locked in for life, and a direct line to the team building this.
20 Founding employer spots open
$0 First 6 months on NextShift
1:1 Onboarding with the founding team
SAMPLE · YOUR DASHBOARD
Verified candidates, ready to hire.
LOCAL
Pool
THIS WK
Active
AVG TIME
Reply
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Sample A.
Barista · 2 yr
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SB
Sample B.
Barista · 3 yr
92
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Sample C.
Lead Barista · 1 yr
89
FIT
QUESTIONS
The short answers.
When does NextShift launch?
Pilot starts in San Jose in Q3 2026, then expands to two more cities by end of year. Join the waitlist and you'll be among the first to get the app the day it opens in yours.
Will NextShift be free for workers?
Yes, always. The whole worker side of the app (roadmap, wage data, verification, applications) costs nothing. Employers pay to access the verified candidate pool.
How will wage data be verified?
Workers anonymously submit their wages and we'll cross-check against payroll links and time-since-last-paycheck signals. Outliers get discarded. We won't publish a number until at least 5 workers have reported it for that employer-role.
Will my current employer see I'm on NextShift?
No. By default, your current employer is hidden from search and from your "open to roles" status. You can override this if you want them to see you.
Who verifies skills?
Past managers and coworkers you've actually worked with. They get a one-tap form via SMS, no signup needed. Each skill needs at least 2 verifiers before it counts as verified.
What industries will NextShift cover at launch?
Barista and café work, warehouse and logistics, driver and delivery, retail, hospitality, construction trades, and healthcare aide roles. Auto and facilities are next on the roadmap.
Why not just use LinkedIn?
LinkedIn was built for desk jobs that come with resumes and references. Shift work doesn't have those. NextShift is built specifically for hourly work: shift-by-shift reliability, manager verification, hour-by-hour pay data.
Pilot opens Q3 2026
Get in early.
Drop your email. We'll text you the day NextShift opens in your city, plus priority access to early features.