Why Senzo, and why now
Senzo is workforce intelligence built for health workforce planning. It is in build, with three design-partner places open for publicly funded and non-profit health systems. Here is what it is built on and what it is not.
Starts from the planning cycle, not the pay period
Every other workforce platform is a staffing, scheduling, productivity or credentialing tool with analytics attached. Senzo starts from the planning cycle: demand, supply and flows, scenarios, the multi-year gap, and the operational signals that feed it.
Built for publicly funded and non-profit health systems
Multi-entity structure, unionized workforces with collective-agreement constraints, statutory reporting that has to be defended line by line, rural and remote sites. Not a US private-system tool with a currency toggle.
Runs on the data you already have
CSV extracts or an API. No EHR or scheduling integration project as a precondition. The four streams joined at unit and provider-type level, with the pattern surfaced in plain language, not another chart.
Where Senzo sits
Every workforce tool a health system can buy was built for the pay period or for a one-off report. Operational tools have the cadence and the wrong horizon. Planning engagements have the horizon and the wrong cadence. Senzo is built for the gap between them, and it does not try to be either of them.
| Capability | Operational tools productivity, rostering, HRIS analytics | Planning engagements consultant or in-house models | Senzo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Refreshes as data arrives (daily or per pay period) | |||
| Unit and provider-type grain | |||
| Vacancy, overtime, absence and flows in one row | |||
| Multi-year supply and demand horizon | |||
| Multi-profession by default | |||
| Still running next year without the consultants | |||
| Starts from CSV extracts, no integration project | |||
| Built for multi-entity public systems and collective agreements | |||
| Real-time labour productivity and premium-pay control | |||
| Rostering, scheduling and shift fill |
Said plainly
What Senzo is not
Not a productivity tool. If the question is this pay period's premium labour, a real-time labour performance platform answers it better than we do, and always will.
Not a roster. The roster is an input. Senzo is what the roster, the HRIS and payroll feed.
Not a consulting model with a login. The method is the same one a good modelling engagement uses. The difference is that it runs next month, on new data, without the consultants.
Not finished. Pulse works and is being validated with design partners. Forecast is in build. We will not publish an outcome figure until a partner has produced one on their own data.
The value of visibility
What changes when a planning function can see the workforce
Decisions based on last quarter’s data
Decisions based on the data as it arrives
Vacancy, overtime and absence trends visible as they form, at unit level, not a quarter later in an aggregate.
Weeks spent building board reports
The briefing is written before anyone asks
The daily briefing reads the four streams together and says, in plain language, which unit moved and why.
No visibility into emerging staffing risks
The converging pattern is surfaced
Pulse detects when vacancy, overtime and absence trends converge on the same unit, the pattern that precedes a staffing crisis.
Workforce planning happens once a year
Planning runs on the same data as monitoring
Forecast, in build, extends the same series into one-to-five-year projections and scenarios: turnover up 5%, a new unit, a contract ending. Design partners see it first.
Every facility tracks metrics differently
One definition set across the system
Extracts from different scheduling, HRIS and payroll systems are mapped to one set of definitions you can show a ministry.
Agency costs discovered after the fact
Agency dependency visible by unit
Agency hours and cost by unit and role as the data arrives, so the units where permanent hiring would cut recurring premium spend are visible before budget season.
Three design-partner places. Canada and the US.
Pulse on your own workforce data, monthly working sessions with the founder, first access to Forecast. Nothing invoiced for the partnership term.