The opportunity
2/2 · Clear, recurring pain
Czech care services are short of workers, and nobody sells a care home cover for a single shift.2 sourcesAPSS ČRapsscr.czAPSS ČR — the staffing-shortage survey (another site)More than 3,000 workers are missing in Czech social services and over half of 625 surveyed facilities report shortage — and the gap deepened between 2023 and 2025.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs —…
- More than 3,000 workers are missing from Czech social services.APSS ČRapsscr.czAPSS ČR — the staffing-shortage survey (another site)More than 3,000 workers are missing in Czech social services and over half of 625 surveyed facilities report shortage — and the gap deepened between 2023 and 2025.
- Over half of 625 surveyed care services report a shortage of workers.APSS ČRapsscr.czAPSS ČR — the staffing-shortage survey (another site)More than 3,000 workers are missing in Czech social services and over half of 625 surveyed facilities report shortage — and the gap deepened between 2023 and 2025.
- Shift apps offer a spare shift only to a home's own staff.2 sourcesMarket checkgrason.czMarket scan — who fills a care shift (another site)Czech searches found scheduling software for staff a provider already employs, a hospitality-born gig app, an events crew platform and classic agencies — no marketplace matching vetted care workers to…Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs —…
P-0033 · Czech care homes are short of carers, and can't book cover for a single shift
The opportunity
About this section
- What this shows
- The problem as it is today: what goes wrong, and who it costs.
- Why it matters to a builder
- Documented pain means you will not have to convince buyers the problem exists before you can sell them the fix.
- How to read the score
- 2/2 means clear, recurring pain: documented complaints, a petition or industry pressure. Scattered complaints make it 1/2.
Czech care services are short of workers, and nobody sells a care home cover for a single shift.2 sourcesAPSS ČRapsscr.czAPSS ČR — the staffing-shortage survey (another site)More than 3,000 workers are missing in Czech social services and over half of 625 surveyed facilities report shortage — and the gap deepened between 2023 and 2025.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs —…
- More than 3,000 workers are missing from Czech social services.APSS ČRapsscr.czAPSS ČR — the staffing-shortage survey (another site)More than 3,000 workers are missing in Czech social services and over half of 625 surveyed facilities report shortage — and the gap deepened between 2023 and 2025.
- Over half of 625 surveyed care services report a shortage of workers.APSS ČRapsscr.czAPSS ČR — the staffing-shortage survey (another site)More than 3,000 workers are missing in Czech social services and over half of 625 surveyed facilities report shortage — and the gap deepened between 2023 and 2025.
- Shift apps offer a spare shift only to a home's own staff.2 sourcesMarket checkgrason.czMarket scan — who fills a care shift (another site)Czech searches found scheduling software for staff a provider already employs, a hospitality-born gig app, an events crew platform and classic agencies — no marketplace matching vetted care workers to…Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs —…
The survey was run in January 2025 by the association of social-services providers.APSS ČRapsscr.czAPSS ČR — the staffing-shortage survey (another site)More than 3,000 workers are missing in Czech social services and over half of 625 surveyed facilities report shortage — and the gap deepened between 2023 and 2025. What a home can do about an empty shift today:
- Shift apps sold to care providers offer the shift only to the staff the provider already employs.2 sourcesMarket checkgrason.czMarket scan — who fills a care shift (another site)Czech searches found scheduling software for staff a provider already employs, a hospitality-born gig app, an events crew platform and classic agencies — no marketplace matching vetted care workers to…Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs —…
- Agencies place nurses and carers into posts by phone, and job boards advertise vacancies; neither covers a single shift.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night.
- No Czech firm sells a care home an outside carer for the shift it needs tomorrow night.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night.
- How a home covers a shift that none of its own staff takes is not known.
Suggested solution
Build an app where vetted nurses and carers pick up single shifts at care homes, as 2 companies already do in 2 other countries.
- The home's shift app. Today: Offers a spare shift to its own staff. With the suggested solution: Also offers it to vetted outside carers.
- Who does this is not known. Today: Who covers a shift no staff member takes is not known. With the suggested solution: A vetted outside carer books that one shift.
- A staffing agency. Today: Places nurses and carers into posts by phone. With the suggested solution: Unchanged: agencies still fill permanent posts.
- The shift marketplace. Today: not done. With the suggested solution: Vets each carer before their first shift.
Not known: who covers a shift no staff member takes.
P-0033 · Czech care homes are short of carers, and can't book cover for a single shift
Suggested solution
About this section
- What this shows
- One way to solve the problem, and how the work would run with it.
- Why it matters to a builder
- It is a starting point to test with buyers, not a plan. The sections below are the evidence for and against it.
Build an app where vetted nurses and carers pick up single shifts at care homes, as 2 companies already do in 2 other countries.
A home's shift app offers a spare shift only to its own staff, and agencies place nurses and carers into posts by phone, not into single shifts.2 sourcesMarket checkgrason.czMarket scan — who fills a care shift (another site)Czech searches found scheduling software for staff a provider already employs, a hospitality-born gig app, an events crew platform and classic agencies — no marketplace matching vetted care workers to…Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs —…
- The home's shift app. Today: Offers a spare shift to its own staff. With the suggested solution: Also offers it to vetted outside carers.
- Who does this is not known. Today: Who covers a shift no staff member takes is not known. With the suggested solution: A vetted outside carer books that one shift.
- A staffing agency. Today: Places nurses and carers into posts by phone. With the suggested solution: Unchanged: agencies still fill permanent posts.
- The shift marketplace. Today: not done. With the suggested solution: Vets each carer before their first shift.
Not known: who covers a shift no staff member takes.
Why now
0/3 · No deadline
Care homes are short of staff today, and the state's own models call for about 34,700 more care beds by 2035.2 sourcesAPSS ČRapsscr.czAPSS ČR — the staffing-shortage survey (another site)More than 3,000 workers are missing in Czech social services and over half of 625 surveyed facilities report shortage — and the gap deepened between 2023 and 2025.MPSVmpsv.gov.czMPSV/ÚZIS long-term-care prediction (another site)Roughly 34,700 new long-term-care beds are needed by 2035 — every one of them staffed, in a sector already 3,000 workers short.In the source’s words“Prediktivní modely dále ukazují, že při zachování současné struktury péče bude do roku 2035 potřeba vybudovat přibližně 34 700 nových pobytových…”
- Care services say the shortage deepened between 2023 and 2025.APSS ČRapsscr.czAPSS ČR — the staffing-shortage survey (another site)More than 3,000 workers are missing in Czech social services and over half of 625 surveyed facilities report shortage — and the gap deepened between 2023 and 2025.
- Employers posted 380 nurse vacancies in July and 316 care vacancies in August.2 sourcesMPSVdata.mpsv.czLabour Office — July 2026 nurse hiring wave (another site)262 employers posted 380 new general-nurse vacancies through the Labour Office in one month, an annualised wage floor of €10.8 million — the shortage, measured monthly.In the source’s words“Všeobecné sestry bez specializace (kromě dětských sester)”MPSVdata.mpsv.czLabour Office — August 2026 care hiring (another site)222 residential-care employers posted 316 new direct-care vacancies, 528 seats in all, through the Labour Office in August 2026, the second month running after July.In the source’s words“Pracovníci přímé obslužné péče v oblasti pobytové péče”
- Each new bed must be staffed from a sector already short of workers.2 sourcesAPSS ČRapsscr.czAPSS ČR — the staffing-shortage survey (another site)More than 3,000 workers are missing in Czech social services and over half of 625 surveyed facilities report shortage — and the gap deepened between 2023 and 2025.MPSVmpsv.gov.czMPSV/ÚZIS long-term-care prediction (another site)Roughly 34,700 new long-term-care beds are needed by 2035 — every one of them staffed, in a sector already 3,000 workers short.In the source’s words“Prediktivní modely dále ukazují, že při zachování současné struktury péče bude do roku 2035 potřeba vybudovat přibližně 34 700 nových pobytových…”
P-0033 · Czech care homes are short of carers, and can't book cover for a single shift
Why now
About this section
- What this shows
- The dated rules and events that push buyers to act, soonest first.
- Why it matters to a builder
- A dated rule turns “nice to have” into “must buy by”, and tells you how long the window stays open.
- How to read the score
- 3/3 means an enacted rule binds these buyers within 18 months and names a penalty. Without a named penalty it is 2/3. A draft law, a rule on someone else, or a date further out is 1/3.
Care homes are short of staff today, and the state's own models call for about 34,700 more care beds by 2035.2 sourcesAPSS ČRapsscr.czAPSS ČR — the staffing-shortage survey (another site)More than 3,000 workers are missing in Czech social services and over half of 625 surveyed facilities report shortage — and the gap deepened between 2023 and 2025.MPSVmpsv.gov.czMPSV/ÚZIS long-term-care prediction (another site)Roughly 34,700 new long-term-care beds are needed by 2035 — every one of them staffed, in a sector already 3,000 workers short.In the source’s words“Prediktivní modely dále ukazují, že při zachování současné struktury péče bude do roku 2035 potřeba vybudovat přibližně 34 700 nových pobytových…”
- Care services say the shortage deepened between 2023 and 2025.APSS ČRapsscr.czAPSS ČR — the staffing-shortage survey (another site)More than 3,000 workers are missing in Czech social services and over half of 625 surveyed facilities report shortage — and the gap deepened between 2023 and 2025.
- Employers posted 380 nurse vacancies in July and 316 care vacancies in August.2 sourcesMPSVdata.mpsv.czLabour Office — July 2026 nurse hiring wave (another site)262 employers posted 380 new general-nurse vacancies through the Labour Office in one month, an annualised wage floor of €10.8 million — the shortage, measured monthly.In the source’s words“Všeobecné sestry bez specializace (kromě dětských sester)”MPSVdata.mpsv.czLabour Office — August 2026 care hiring (another site)222 residential-care employers posted 316 new direct-care vacancies, 528 seats in all, through the Labour Office in August 2026, the second month running after July.In the source’s words“Pracovníci přímé obslužné péče v oblasti pobytové péče”
- Each new bed must be staffed from a sector already short of workers.2 sourcesAPSS ČRapsscr.czAPSS ČR — the staffing-shortage survey (another site)More than 3,000 workers are missing in Czech social services and over half of 625 surveyed facilities report shortage — and the gap deepened between 2023 and 2025.MPSVmpsv.gov.czMPSV/ÚZIS long-term-care prediction (another site)Roughly 34,700 new long-term-care beds are needed by 2035 — every one of them staffed, in a sector already 3,000 workers short.In the source’s words“Prediktivní modely dále ukazují, že při zachování současné struktury péče bude do roku 2035 potřeba vybudovat přibližně 34 700 nových pobytových…”
Behind those three items are the monthly vacancy data, the models and a change in what carers may do:
- In July 2026, 262 employers posted 380 new general-nurse vacancies through the Labour Office.MPSVdata.mpsv.czLabour Office — July 2026 nurse hiring wave (another site)262 employers posted 380 new general-nurse vacancies through the Labour Office in one month, an annualised wage floor of €10.8 million — the shortage, measured monthly.In the source’s words“Všeobecné sestry bez specializace (kromě dětských sester)”
- In August 2026, 222 residential-care employers posted 316 new direct-care vacancies, 528 seats in all.MPSVdata.mpsv.czLabour Office — August 2026 care hiring (another site)222 residential-care employers posted 316 new direct-care vacancies, 528 seats in all, through the Labour Office in August 2026, the second month running after July.In the source’s words“Pracovníci přímé obslužné péče v oblasti pobytové péče”
- The labour ministry and the health-statistics institute model residential clients rising from 93,536 to 135,624 by 2035, and beds from 76,761 to 111,503.MPSVmpsv.gov.czMPSV/ÚZIS long-term-care prediction (another site)Roughly 34,700 new long-term-care beds are needed by 2035 — every one of them staffed, in a sector already 3,000 workers short.In the source’s words“Prediktivní modely dále ukazují, že při zachování současné struktury péče bude do roku 2035 potřeba vybudovat přibližně 34 700 nových pobytových lůžek.”
- Since 1 July 2026 Act No. 92/2026 lets home-care services help with medication, without breaking the skin, and handle stoma and urine bags.e-Sbírkae-sbirka.gov.czSocial services amendment 92/2026 Sb. (another site)Since 1 July 2026 care services may take on routine health-adjacent tasks — widening what a qualified flexible worker may legally cover per shift.In the source’s words“běžné úkony péče o zdraví, kterými jsou pomoc při užití humánního léčivého přípravku bez porušení integrity kůže” That widens what a qualified flexible worker may cover in one shift.e-Sbírkae-sbirka.gov.czSocial services amendment 92/2026 Sb. (another site)Since 1 July 2026 care services may take on routine health-adjacent tasks — widening what a qualified flexible worker may legally cover per shift.In the source’s words“běžné úkony péče o zdraví, kterými jsou pomoc při užití humánního léčivého přípravku bez porušení integrity kůže”
Willing to pay
0/2 · No sign yet
Care homes pay wages to staff their shifts and use agencies to hire, but no Czech price for a single shift is on file.2 sourcesMarket checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs —…MPSVdata.mpsv.czLabour Office — August 2026 care hiring (another site)222 residential-care employers posted 316 new direct-care vacancies, 528 seats in all, through the Labour Office in August 2026, the second month running after July.In the source’s words“Pracovníci přímé obslužné péče v oblasti pobytové péče”
- Employers advertised 651 general-nurse seats through the Labour Office in July 2026.MPSVdata.mpsv.czLabour Office — July 2026 nurse hiring wave (another site)262 employers posted 380 new general-nurse vacancies through the Labour Office in one month, an annualised wage floor of €10.8 million — the shortage, measured monthly.In the source’s words“Všeobecné sestry bez specializace (kromě dětských sester)”
- The Královéhradecký region tendered €2.19M in January 2026 for personal-assistance services.TEDted.europa.euKrálovéhradecký kraj — personal-assistance development (€2.19M) (another site)A region is paying €2.19 million to develop personal-assistance capacity — public money already flows into getting more care hours delivered.
- Agencies placing nurses and carers publish no price for a single shift.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night.
P-0033 · Czech care homes are short of carers, and can't book cover for a single shift
Willing to pay
About this section
- What this shows
- Who already spends money on this problem, how much, and how they buy.
- Why it matters to a builder
- If people already pay for this, even by hand or through a consultant, you are replacing a spend, not creating a budget.
- How to read the score
- 2/2 means a Czech buyer has paid for this, or a priced job also gets public money that pays part of it. A price on file makes it 1/2. Public money alone earns nothing. Only public buyers publish what they pay, so problems sold to private firms often score lower.
Care homes pay wages to staff their shifts and use agencies to hire, but no Czech price for a single shift is on file.2 sourcesMarket checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs —…MPSVdata.mpsv.czLabour Office — August 2026 care hiring (another site)222 residential-care employers posted 316 new direct-care vacancies, 528 seats in all, through the Labour Office in August 2026, the second month running after July.In the source’s words“Pracovníci přímé obslužné péče v oblasti pobytové péče”
- Employers advertised 651 general-nurse seats through the Labour Office in July 2026.MPSVdata.mpsv.czLabour Office — July 2026 nurse hiring wave (another site)262 employers posted 380 new general-nurse vacancies through the Labour Office in one month, an annualised wage floor of €10.8 million — the shortage, measured monthly.In the source’s words“Všeobecné sestry bez specializace (kromě dětských sester)”
- The Královéhradecký region tendered €2.19M in January 2026 for personal-assistance services.TEDted.europa.euKrálovéhradecký kraj — personal-assistance development (€2.19M) (another site)A region is paying €2.19 million to develop personal-assistance capacity — public money already flows into getting more care hours delivered.
- Agencies placing nurses and carers publish no price for a single shift.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night.
What those July nurse seats cost in wages a year is in the table of what one buyer pays. That is what employers pay to employ nurses, not what a care home pays for cover on one shift. A marketplace would earn a fee on a share of that wage bill, and no Czech per-shift rate is on file to set it.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night. Abroad, workers bid on the shifts they want, and one marketplace says it cuts out agency middlemen.2 sourcesCrunchbasenews.crunchbase.comShiftKey (another site)The US proof at scale: licensed health workers bid on per-diem shifts at 10,000+ facilities, $300M raised at a valuation above $2 billion.florence.co.ukFlorence (another site)The UK version for exactly this buyer: care homes fill shifts directly from 90,000 vetted professionals, cutting out agency mark-ups, with training bundled in.
What one buyer pays
- 270 967 125 CZK a year
- 262 Czech employers advertising 651 general-nurse seats MPSVdata.mpsv.czThe July 2026 nurse postings, priced as a wage bill (another site)262 Czech employers advertising 651 general-nurse seats in one month carry an annual wage floor of about 271M CZK. It is what employing nurses costs them, not what a care home pays for cover on one shift.
One public tender
Towns that put work out to tender in Jan 2026.
- A region is paying €2.19 million to develop personal-assistance capacity. TEDted.europa.euKrálovéhradecký kraj — personal-assistance development (€2.19M) (another site)A region is paying €2.19 million to develop personal-assistance capacity — public money already flows into getting more care hours delivered.
Validated abroad
2/3 · Proven once
Two marketplaces abroad, each about a decade old, let vetted nurses and carers book single shifts at care homes.2 sourcesCrunchbasenews.crunchbase.comShiftKey (another site)The US proof at scale: licensed health workers bid on per-diem shifts at 10,000+ facilities, $300M raised at a valuation above $2 billion.florence.co.ukFlorence (another site)The UK version for exactly this buyer: care homes fill shifts directly from 90,000 vetted professionals, cutting out agency mark-ups, with training bundled in.
- ShiftKey (another site)Based in United States
- Florence (another site)Based in United Kingdom
P-0033 · Czech care homes are short of carers, and can't book cover for a single shift
Validated abroad
About this section
- What this shows
- Companies abroad that already sell a solution, and how far along they are.
- Why it matters to a builder
- Established companies selling it in other markets show that buyers will pay, so you are not betting on an untested idea.
- How to read the score
- 3/3 means established in two or more markets, one of them near Czechia. 2/3 is one established company, 1/3 only early players.
Two marketplaces abroad, each about a decade old, let vetted nurses and carers book single shifts at care homes.2 sourcesCrunchbasenews.crunchbase.comShiftKey (another site)The US proof at scale: licensed health workers bid on per-diem shifts at 10,000+ facilities, $300M raised at a valuation above $2 billion.florence.co.ukFlorence (another site)The UK version for exactly this buyer: care homes fill shifts directly from 90,000 vetted professionals, cutting out agency mark-ups, with training bundled in.
- Crunchbasenews.crunchbase.comShiftKey (another site)The US proof at scale: licensed health workers bid on per-diem shifts at 10,000+ facilities, $300M raised at a valuation above $2 billion.
$300M raised at a valuation above $2B, led by Lorient Capital (Crunchbase News, Jan 2023); licensed professionals bid on per-diem shifts at 10,000+ healthcare facilities, skilled-nursing first
- florence.co.ukFlorence (another site)The UK version for exactly this buyer: care homes fill shifts directly from 90,000 vetted professionals, cutting out agency mark-ups, with training bundled in.
£28.5M ($35M) Series B led by AXA Venture Partners (company, Jun 2022); 90,000 care professionals and 2,000+ care organisations; shift-matching plus training
In the US a Dallas company founded in 2016 lets licensed health workers bid on single shifts at more than 10,000 facilities, skilled-nursing and long-term-care homes first.Crunchbasenews.crunchbase.comShiftKey (another site)The US proof at scale: licensed health workers bid on per-diem shifts at 10,000+ facilities, $300M raised at a valuation above $2 billion. It raised $300M led by Lorient Capital at a valuation above $2 billion, announced in January 2023.Crunchbasenews.crunchbase.comShiftKey (another site)The US proof at scale: licensed health workers bid on per-diem shifts at 10,000+ facilities, $300M raised at a valuation above $2 billion.
In Britain a London company founded in 2017 by a doctor from the National Health Service matches care homes with shifts and bundles in training, for 90,000 care professionals and more than 2,000 care organisations, with 100,000 people on its e-learning.florence.co.ukFlorence (another site)The UK version for exactly this buyer: care homes fill shifts directly from 90,000 vetted professionals, cutting out agency mark-ups, with training bundled in. It raised a £28.5M Series B led by AXA Venture Partners (the insurer AXA's venture fund) in June 2022, and says its app cuts out agency middlemen so shifts are filled directly.florence.co.ukFlorence (another site)The UK version for exactly this buyer: care homes fill shifts directly from 90,000 vetted professionals, cutting out agency mark-ups, with training bundled in.
No Central European example is on file.Crunchbasenews.crunchbase.comShiftKey (another site)The US proof at scale: licensed health workers bid on per-diem shifts at 10,000+ facilities, $300M raised at a valuation above $2 billion.
Market gap
2/2 · Open
Established Czech firms sell shift apps and single-shift work, but none sells care homes cover from outside their own staff.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night.
New, selling this: nobody on file. Established, selling this: nobody on file. New, selling something nearby: Chytrá organizace (since 2016), Přehlednější zdravotnictví (Medfair) (since 2019), Domelie (since 2025), Plánuj směny, sestrycz.eu, Směny.cz, VeruApp. Established, selling something nearby: Dayswaps (since 2017), Grason (since 2018), Shiftiary (since 2019), Flecto (since 2021). No established player sells this here.
The space is still open
- EarlySells something nearby · since 2016Chytrá organizace (another site)It sells internal shift planning to providers for staff they already employ — a rota tool, not a marketplace.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearby · since 2019Přehlednější zdravotnictví (Medfair) (another site)It sells job advertising to healthcare employers, including posts advertised as flexible — a board where a care operator posts a vacancy and waits, which is hiring rather than covering a shift that starts tomorrow.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearby · since 2025Domelie (another site)It brokers household caregivers to families, selling to consumers rather than shifts to facilities.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearbyPlánuj směny (another site)It sells a rota tool where colleagues swap shifts with each other and claim whatever is left over — the pool is the employer's own payroll, so a shift with nobody internal free stays empty.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearbysestrycz.eu (another site)It is a staffing agency for healthcare: it offers nurses, practical nurses, care workers and physiotherapists posts at hospitals and care operators, brokered by people over the phone.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearbySměny.cz (another site)It sells internal shift planning to providers for staff they already employ — a rota tool, not a marketplace that brings workers in from outside.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearbyVeruApp (another site)It sells care-agency operations software, which plans the staff a provider already employs rather than filling open shifts from outside.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EstablishedSells something nearby · since 2017Dayswaps (another site)It sells shift-planning software and runs a healthcare page, and its open-shift feature offers a spare shift to the employer's own team rather than to anyone outside it.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EstablishedSells something nearby · since 2018Grason (another site)It sells shifts in hospitality, retail and warehousing — the app grew out of restaurant staffing, and its own live job feed returns gastronomy postings and nothing else.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EstablishedSells something nearby · since 2019Shiftiary (another site)It sells shift planning to hospitals for the staff they already employ — the rota, not the recruiting — and its founder puts it plainly: it helps doctors and nurses plan their own duties and shifts.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EstablishedSells something nearby · since 2021Flecto (another site)It sells the exact shape this problem calls for, to a different industry: workers book individual shifts at partner employers rather than take a job.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
P-0033 · Czech care homes are short of carers, and can't book cover for a single shift
Market gap
About this section
- What this shows
- Czech companies that already sell this, and firms nearby that sell something else.
- Why it matters to a builder
- A mature Czech seller means taking customers from an incumbent. Firms nearby still matter: the buyer may already pay them.
- How to read the score
- More points mean a more open field. 2/2 means no Czech company sells this, 1/2 only early ones do, 0/2 a mature one does.
Established Czech firms sell shift apps and single-shift work, but none sells care homes cover from outside their own staff.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night.
New, selling this: nobody on file. Established, selling this: nobody on file. New, selling something nearby: Chytrá organizace (since 2016), Přehlednější zdravotnictví (Medfair) (since 2019), Domelie (since 2025), Plánuj směny, sestrycz.eu, Směny.cz, VeruApp. Established, selling something nearby: Dayswaps (since 2017), Grason (since 2018), Shiftiary (since 2019), Flecto (since 2021). No established player sells this here.
The space is still open
- EarlySells something nearby · since 2016Chytrá organizace (another site)It sells internal shift planning to providers for staff they already employ — a rota tool, not a marketplace.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearby · since 2019Přehlednější zdravotnictví (Medfair) (another site)It sells job advertising to healthcare employers, including posts advertised as flexible — a board where a care operator posts a vacancy and waits, which is hiring rather than covering a shift that starts tomorrow.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearby · since 2025Domelie (another site)It brokers household caregivers to families, selling to consumers rather than shifts to facilities.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearbyPlánuj směny (another site)It sells a rota tool where colleagues swap shifts with each other and claim whatever is left over — the pool is the employer's own payroll, so a shift with nobody internal free stays empty.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearbysestrycz.eu (another site)It is a staffing agency for healthcare: it offers nurses, practical nurses, care workers and physiotherapists posts at hospitals and care operators, brokered by people over the phone.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearbySměny.cz (another site)It sells internal shift planning to providers for staff they already employ — a rota tool, not a marketplace that brings workers in from outside.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearbyVeruApp (another site)It sells care-agency operations software, which plans the staff a provider already employs rather than filling open shifts from outside.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EstablishedSells something nearby · since 2017Dayswaps (another site)It sells shift-planning software and runs a healthcare page, and its open-shift feature offers a spare shift to the employer's own team rather than to anyone outside it.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EstablishedSells something nearby · since 2018Grason (another site)It sells shifts in hospitality, retail and warehousing — the app grew out of restaurant staffing, and its own live job feed returns gastronomy postings and nothing else.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EstablishedSells something nearby · since 2019Shiftiary (another site)It sells shift planning to hospitals for the staff they already employ — the rota, not the recruiting — and its founder puts it plainly: it helps doctors and nurses plan their own duties and shifts.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EstablishedSells something nearby · since 2021Flecto (another site)It sells the exact shape this problem calls for, to a different industry: workers book individual shifts at partner employers rather than take a job.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
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- Established: Grason (another site)2 sourcesMarket checkgrason.czMarket scan — who fills a care shift (another site)Czech searches found scheduling software for staff a provider already employs, a hospitality-born gig app, an events crew platform and classic agencies — no marketplace matching vetted care workers to…Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs —…
It sells shifts in hospitality, retail and warehousing — the app grew out of restaurant staffing, and its own live job feed returns gastronomy postings and nothing else.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night. Six independent routes — the marketing site, the company blog, the App Store listing, trade coverage from 2020 and 2021, the trade register and the state register — name restaurants, warehouses, logistics and supermarkets, and not one of them names healthcare or social care.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night. Trading since 23 February 2018 and reported as used by Alza, Mall and Albert, with roughly 350 businesses and 4,500 workers on the platform by 2021.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night.
- Established: Flecto (another site)Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night.
It sells the exact shape this problem calls for, to a different industry: workers book individual shifts at partner employers rather than take a job. Trading since 25 March 2021 and used by named partners including Continental, Aramark, Avian, Promens and DF Partner — manufacturing and catering, with no hospital, care home or social-service employer among them.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night.
- Established: Shiftiary (another site)Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night.
It sells shift planning to hospitals for the staff they already employ — the rota, not the recruiting — and its founder puts it plainly: it helps doctors and nurses plan their own duties and shifts.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night. Trading since 4 January 2019 and used by FN Motol, ÚVN, FN Hradec Králové and FN Bulovka, planning for about fifty facilities and three hundred departments in Czechia and Slovakia.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night.
- Established: Dayswaps (another site)Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night.
It sells shift-planning software and runs a healthcare page, and its open-shift feature offers a spare shift to the employer's own team rather than to anyone outside it.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night. Trading since 4 December 2017 and used by more than 100 companies and 10,000+ employees across five countries, per its own site.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night.
- Early: Směny.cz (another site)Market checkgrason.czMarket scan — who fills a care shift (another site)Czech searches found scheduling software for staff a provider already employs, a hospitality-born gig app, an events crew platform and classic agencies — no marketplace matching vetted care workers to facility shifts.
It sells internal shift planning to providers for staff they already employMarket checkgrason.czMarket scan — who fills a care shift (another site)Czech searches found scheduling software for staff a provider already employs, a hospitality-born gig app, an events crew platform and classic agencies — no marketplace matching vetted care workers to facility shifts. — a rota tool, not a marketplace that brings workers in from outside. No start year and no figures for how many providers run it are published.
- Early: Plánuj směny (another site)Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night.
It sells a rota tool where colleagues swap shifts with each other and claim whatever is left overMarket checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night. — the pool is the employer's own payroll, so a shift with nobody internal free stays empty. No start year and no figures for how many providers run it are published.
- Market checkgrason.czMarket scan — who fills a care shift (another site)Czech searches found scheduling software for staff a provider already employs, a hospitality-born gig app, an events crew platform and classic agencies — no marketplace matching vetted care workers to facility shifts.
It sells internal shift planning to providers for staff they already employMarket checkgrason.czMarket scan — who fills a care shift (another site)Czech searches found scheduling software for staff a provider already employs, a hospitality-born gig app, an events crew platform and classic agencies — no marketplace matching vetted care workers to facility shifts. — a rota tool, not a marketplace. Trading since 18 January 2016; it names nobody who has bought it and publishes no count.
- Early: VeruApp (another site)Market checkgrason.czMarket scan — who fills a care shift (another site)Czech searches found scheduling software for staff a provider already employs, a hospitality-born gig app, an events crew platform and classic agencies — no marketplace matching vetted care workers to facility shifts.
It sells care-agency operations software, which plans the staff a provider already employs rather than filling open shifts from outside.Market checkgrason.czMarket scan — who fills a care shift (another site)Czech searches found scheduling software for staff a provider already employs, a hospitality-born gig app, an events crew platform and classic agencies — no marketplace matching vetted care workers to facility shifts. No start year and no figures for how many agencies run it are published.
- Early: sestrycz.eu (another site)Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night.
It is a staffing agency for healthcare: it offers nurses, practical nurses, care workers and physiotherapists posts at hospitals and care operators, brokered by people over the phone.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night. A home cannot post tomorrow night's shift on it and no per-shift price is published — this is the agency arrangement a shift marketplace would displace, not a version of one.
- Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night.
It sells job advertising to healthcare employers, including posts advertised as flexible — a board where a care operator posts a vacancy and waits, which is hiring rather than covering a shift that starts tomorrow.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night. Trading since 12 August 2019; it names nobody who has bought it and publishes no count.
- Early: Domelie (another site)Market checkgrason.czMarket scan — who fills a care shift (another site)Czech searches found scheduling software for staff a provider already employs, a hospitality-born gig app, an events crew platform and classic agencies — no marketplace matching vetted care workers to facility shifts.
It brokers household caregivers to families, selling to consumers rather than shifts to facilities.Market checkgrason.czMarket scan — who fills a care shift (another site)Czech searches found scheduling software for staff a provider already employs, a hospitality-born gig app, an events crew platform and classic agencies — no marketplace matching vetted care workers to facility shifts. Domelie s.r.o. has traded only since 5 March 2025 and publishes no count of families it has served.
Each firm's name, customers and dates are in its row. What they sell:
- Four Czech rota tools, none naming its customers, plan the shifts of staff a care provider already employs.2 sourcesMarket checkgrason.czMarket scan — who fills a care shift (another site)Czech searches found scheduling software for staff a provider already employs, a hospitality-born gig app, an events crew platform and classic agencies — no marketplace matching vetted care workers to…Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs —…
- An established one does the same inside hospitals, for about fifty facilities and three hundred departments in Czechia and Slovakia.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night.
- Another established one sells it to more than 100 companies in five countries, and its open-shift feature offers a spare shift only to the employer's own team.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night.
- Two established Czech marketplaces let workers book single shifts, one in manufacturing and catering, the other in restaurants, warehouses and supermarkets.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night. The second one's own live job feed carries gastronomy postings only.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night.
- Neither marketplace names a health or social-care buyer in public.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night.
- A healthcare staffing agency places nurses, carers and physiotherapists into posts by phone, and publishes no per-shift price.Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs — but nobody selling a care home the shift it needs tomorrow night.
- A job board sells health employers vacancy adverts, and a young firm places household carers with families rather than shifts with care homes.2 sourcesMarket checkgrason.czMarket scan — who fills a care shift (another site)Czech searches found scheduling software for staff a provider already employs, a hospitality-born gig app, an events crew platform and classic agencies — no marketplace matching vetted care workers to…Market checkinfo.flecto.czWho fills a Czech care shift — the second sweep, and the Grason answer (another site)A wider Czech search in a care home's own words. It found a mature Czech shift marketplace in factories and canteens, mature Czech rota software inside hospitals, and agencies that place people into jobs —…
Whoever sells outside cover must first decide who employs the carer.EUR-Lexeur-lex.europa.euDirective (EU) 2024/2831 on platform work (another site)The EU platform-work directive must be transposed by 2 December 2026 and presumes an employment relationship wherever a platform directs and controls the work — it dates the question of who employs the worker, and it runs against a marketplace that would direct carers' shifts. The EU platform-work directive, due in Czech law by 2 December 2026, presumes employment wherever a platform directs and controls the work.EUR-Lexeur-lex.europa.euDirective (EU) 2024/2831 on platform work (another site)The EU platform-work directive must be transposed by 2 December 2026 and presumes an employment relationship wherever a platform directs and controls the work — it dates the question of who employs the worker, and it runs against a marketplace that would direct carers' shifts.
Execution difficulty
1/3 · Hard
Makes it easier
- Over half of care services are short of workers.
- No Czech firm sells them outside cover for one shift.
Makes it harder
- Placing a worker on another employer's shift needs an agency licence.
- EU rules presume platform workers are employees from December 2026.
- Two established shift marketplaces run next door.
P-0033 · Czech care homes are short of carers, and can't book cover for a single shift
Execution difficulty
About this section
- What this shows
- What stands between you and the first sale: who buys, what permission selling needs, what it must plug into, and whether it needs outside money.
- Why it matters to a builder
- It tells you whether a small team can start selling soon, or needs a licence, a certification or funding first.
- How to read the score
- More points mean easier to enter: 3/3 is easy, 0/3 very hard. It is not added to the Opportunity total, and local competition does not count here: that is Market gap.
Hard
Makes it easier
- Over half of care services are short of workers.
- No Czech firm sells them outside cover for one shift.
Makes it harder
- Placing a worker on another employer's shift needs an agency licence.
- EU rules presume platform workers are employees from December 2026.
- Two established shift marketplaces run next door.
Local competition does not change this level. It is covered under Market gap.
Suggested first moves
- Build the worker side first: a pool of vetted nurses and carers in one region who want to pick up single shifts at care homes.
- Call the managers of care homes in one region that already use a staffing agency, and ask what one uncovered shift costs them.
- Open every talk with a care home on the long-term staffing gap, not this month's vacancies.
P-0033 · Czech care homes are short of carers, and can't book cover for a single shift
Suggested first moves
About this section
- What this shows
- A few concrete steps to start with.
- Why it matters to a builder
- They are cheap ways to learn whether buyers will pay, before you build much.
- Build the worker side first: a pool of vetted nurses and carers in one region who want to pick up single shifts at care homes. A shift only sells if someone qualified takes it, and a law in force since this summer lets care workers cover more routine health tasks, which widens who can take one; see Why now. Decide before the first shift who employs each carer, because the EU's platform-work rules presume employment where a platform directs the work, as Market gap explains; the licence this needs is under Execution difficulty.
- Call the managers of care homes in one region that already use a staffing agency, and ask what one uncovered shift costs them. Agencies place people into posts by phone and publish no per-shift price, so nobody outside knows what a shift costs a home; see Market gap and Willing to pay. Your fee has to come out of what the home already pays, so find that number before you set a price.
- Open every talk with a care home on the long-term staffing gap, not this month's vacancies. The ministry's bed models, every bed to be staffed, meet a sector already short of workers; see Why now. The shortage a home has this month is the smallest it will be.
- Watch the two Czech shift marketplaces that serve factories, canteens and restaurants, because either could open a care line. Both already let workers book single shifts, and neither names a care buyer yet; see Market gap. Move into care homes before they do.