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Clipboard connects healthcare facilities with qualified professionals to cover open shifts through a staffing marketplace.

category

Healthcare shift staffing marketplace

market profile

  • text: Healthcare facilities use flexible shift coverage to address call-offs and gaps in their regular workforce.
  • text: The marketplace serves long-term care and is expanding into hospitals, home health and dental staffing.

personas

  • title: Long-term care staffing coordinator
    pains:
    • Last-minute call-offs consume time spent calling agencies and individual clinicians
    • Unfilled shifts put pressure on permanent staff and continuity of care
  • title: Director of nursing at a skilled nursing facility
    pains:
    • Needs qualified staff for each shift without losing visibility into credentials
    • Inconsistent agency workers create onboarding and care continuity concerns
  • title: Home health operations director
    pains:
    • Referral demand exceeds available clinicians in some geographies
    • Scheduling and travel constraints make coverage difficult

icp

  • text: US skilled nursing, assisted living and long-term care operators with frequent CNA, LPN or RN coverage gaps.
  • text: Hospitals and home health organizations seeking local, qualified workers for unpredictable or dispersed demand.

message pillars

  • text: Fill gaps by broadcasting shifts to qualified local workers.
  • text: Automate recovery from cancellations.
  • text: Make scheduling and payment easier for facility teams.

objections

  • objection: Will a worker cancel just before the shift?
    response: Ask about local fill performance and replacement procedures and pilot the service with a defined set of shifts.
  • objection: Will variable staffing bills be predictable?
    response: Request role and location-specific hourly rates and agree on any shift differentials before posting.

competitors

  • name: CareRev
    why: Local per-diem healthcare staffing marketplace.
  • name: ShiftMed
    why: On-demand nurse and CNA staffing platform.
  • name: ShiftKey
    why: Healthcare shift marketplace with long-term care presence.
  • name: IntelyCare
    why: Flexible nursing workforce and staffing service.

influencers

  • name: Wei Deng
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dengwei
    why: Founder and co-CEO sharing the company's mission and healthcare work experience.

keywords

  • nursing home shift coverage
  • CNA staffing app
  • per diem nurse staffing
  • long term care staffing
  • healthcare call off coverage
  • home health staffing marketplace

voice

  • Empathetic and service oriented
  • Direct and reassuring
  • Community minded

signals

  • text: A facility has recurring open CNA or nursing shifts, rising overtime or high call-off rates.
  • text: A home health provider is expanding service geography and struggling to cover referrals.

pricing

model: usage

motion

hybrid

channels

  • SEO
  • sales
  • events
  • worker referrals
  • mobile app

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Wei Deng
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: I'm a graduate of Yale and Yale Law School. Have done law, finance, product and operations, and am currently running a company that matches healthcare facilities with available nurses nearby.

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