Ask Horarium
Ask about your roster in plain English.
It answers from your own venue’s settings, not a help page. If you ask for something it can’t do, it tells you straight away and shows you where to do it yourself — instead of agreeing and quietly doing nothing.
01 · Inside the line
“How do I stop a shift changing when I regenerate?”
It answers from how your venue is set up
Not from a help centre written once and left. The assistant is given this venue's own settings, so what it tells you about locking, notes or standing rules is what is true here.
02 · Outside the line
“Put two more people on the floor on Friday night”
It tells you when something isn't possible
Headcount comes from your shift templates, so no phrasing of this request would have worked. It says so, and names where the number actually lives, instead of accepting the instruction and quietly doing nothing.
03 · On the line
“Lock Sam's Thursday shift”
It proposes; you decide
The assistant can put an action on screen. Only your click performs it — the same boundary the product keeps between reading what you meant and changing what is real.
Real components, real clicks, recorded answers
The line
It tells you what it can’t do.
Most of what you can type into a week’s notes works. A few things don’t, and it knows exactly which. Here are both lists in full.
What it can do
“Give Priya Nair Saturday off”
A day off for a named person
“Make sure Tom Hale works Friday”
A forced working day for a named person
“Spread the weekend hours evenly this week”
Emphasis on a goal the solver already weighs
“No doubles this week”
Same — an emphasis, not a new rule
“Priya never works Sundays”
Sounds permanent, so it's offered as a real setting afterwards
What it can’t do
“Two more on the floor Friday night”
Headcount lives in a shift template, not in notes
“Run lean on weekdays”
Also a headcount change, for the same reason
“Put Sam and Jo on together”
There is no way to say two people must share a shift
This list isn’t written for this page. It’s the same list the assistant itself is given, which is why it can tell you a limit straight away instead of trying and failing.
Watch it used
Told no, then shown where to go.
One session on a real venue. Typing and the wait while the solver runs are sped up — everything the assistant says plays at its own pace.
01
A question only this venue can answer
“How many hours can Matteo work?” — answered from his own record: a minimum of 15 and a maximum of 30. Not a definition of what maximum hours are. His.
02
Asked for something it can't do
Two fewer people on Friday evening is a headcount change, and headcount lives in a shift template. It says so, says the Floor PM Friday number is currently 5, and offers the settings page rather than leaving you to find it.
03
The change, and the week rebuilt
Friday's number edited in Venue settings, then the solver runs on the whole week again. The wait is sped up here; it takes about half a minute in real life.
It can’t put anyone on a shift.
It answers questions, offers to open the right page, and can suggest one kind of change — pinning a shift so it survives the next regenerate, or unpinning it — which happens only when you click. Nothing it does decides who works when. That is the maths’ job, and the maths shows its working.
Ask it about your own venue.
Once your venue is set up, it answers from your own settings.