Homebase Brings AI to Main Street with Faster Hiring, Effortless Scheduling Tools

New AI assistants automate hiring and scheduling to simplify team management for small businesses

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Homebase, the all-in-one platform for small business team management, hiring, and payroll, today introduced its first in a new class of AI-powered solutions: Hiring Assistant and Scheduling Assistant. The new AI Assistants are designed to take on the actual work of hiring and scheduling—automating tedious, manual tasks end-to-end—so that small business owners and managers can save hours each week and stay focused on running their business and supporting their teams.

Homebase’s AI Assistants were built specifically for the unique challenges of small businesses, delivering powerful automation without the complexity or cost. Intelligent assistants use machine learning and generative AI to eliminate time-consuming manual tasks, from writing job descriptions to building optimized shift schedules, built to meet the unique needs of every hourly team. By learning from each business’s behaviors and team preferences, the tools deliver tailored support that helps small businesses make smarter decisions, move faster, and compete at a new level.

Hiring is one of the biggest time and cost burdens for small businesses, but Hiring Assistant changes that, using AI to automate and accelerate every step of the process and recommend best-fit candidates faster. Hiring Assistant helps business owners and managers:

• Generate job descriptions and post jobs across multiple job boards with a single click.
• Screen applicants via AI-powered interviews, gathering insights on fit, availability, and experience based on the business’ hiring criteria and needs.
• Pre-schedule interviews directly with top candidates for business owners to confirm, eliminating back-and-forth coordination.

With Hiring Assistant, businesses can reduce time-to-hire, improve candidate quality, and eliminate repetitive tasks—all without needing to learn a new system or manage a complicated setup.

Once the right people are in place, the next hurdle is keeping shifts staffed and teams running smoothly. Scheduling Assistant eliminates the guesswork and manual effort traditionally required, automatically creating schedules in seconds by factoring in the team’s real-time availability, past shift history, preferences, and cost optimization. Once the schedule is built, it helps identify and prioritize replacements as changes happen, helping small business owners find better coverage in less time, reduce burnout, boost team satisfaction, and give owners back valuable time.

“Small business owners wear a lot of hats, and the day-to-day work of running a team can be overwhelming,” said John Waldmann, CEO of Homebase. “Our new AI assistants are here to take real work off their plate, saving time on repetitive tasks involved in hiring or creating a team’s schedule. Homebase aims to help small businesses save 100M hours in the coming year, time that can be reinvested back into their businesses, teams, and communities.”

As the first in a new class of AI solutions for Homebase, these solutions represent Homebase’s commitment to building cutting-edge, accessible technology that helps small business teams thrive. Scheduling Assistant is available for free to all customers on any paid plan through September 5, 2025. After that date, it will be included exclusively in the Plus and All-in-One plans. Hiring Assistant is currently in free beta and available to all customers through September 5.

Learn more and join the waitlist for the new Hiring Assistant. For more information on Homebase’s full suite of team management tools, visit https://www.joinhomebase.com/.

About Homebase

Our mission is to make small business teams unstoppable.

Homebase is the everything app for hourly teams, with employee scheduling, time clocks, payroll, hiring, communication, HR, and more. More than 100,000 small (but mighty) businesses rely on Homebase to make work radically easy and give their teams superpowers. As the leader in small business team management, Homebase tracked 1+ billion hours for 2.5+ million workers last year. Homebase was n amed a 2024 Fast Company’s Brands That Matter and is a 2025 Webby Award winner.

Homebase is based in San Francisco, Houston, Denver, and Toronto. We are backed by leading venture investors L Catterton Growth, Emerson Collective, Notable Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Baseline Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Bedrock Capital, and PLUS Capital.