Founding Operator — PreShifter | 25 Seats. Interviewed, Not Sold.
Founding Operator Program · Cohort 01 · By application

You can't buy this plan.You can qualify for it.

Founding Operator is the lowest rate PreShifter will ever carry — roughly 30% under list, locked for as long as you stay — plus more than $2,000 of white-glove onboarding, included. Twenty-five restaurants per cohort. Every one interviewed first.

Book the qualification call ↓ See what a seat includes ↓

15-minute call · No obligation either way · Not qualifying costs you nothing

Cohort 01 — The Seating Chart — seats claimed · — open

When the chart fills, founding pricing closes with it. Cohort 02 — if there is one — won't carry these rates.

Why this exists

A discount with a reason attached.

A discount without a reason is just a seller blinking. This one has terms. We're early, we're building fast, and the roadmap gets decided in the next year. We'd rather decide it with twenty-five operators who run real services than guess from a dashboard.

So this is the trade, plainly: you give us the truth about how PreShifter performs on your floor. We give you the best rate we'll ever offer, and a product that bends toward your restaurant.
The terms

The deal, written down.

Partnerships work when the terms are plain. Here's both sides of this one.

Your side
What you bring
A
Real services

PreShifter runs your actual pre-shifts, not a demo account on a quiet Tuesday.

B
Twenty minutes a month

One short feedback call. What worked, what didn't, what's missing. That's the whole time commitment.

C
Candor

If something's broken, we want it said plainly. Politeness doesn't ship fixes.

Our side
What you keep
01
The founding rate, for life

Roughly 30% under list, locked for as long as you're subscribed. List prices will rise. Yours won't.

02
$2,000+ of onboarding, included

Menu build-out done for you, founder onboarding, white-glove support: the full stack below, at no charge.

03
A say in the roadmap

Working sessions with the founders, every beta first: your fingerprints on the product your competitors end up using.

04
A direct line

No ticket queue between you and the people building your tool. You'll know us by name.

This is a working partnership, not a coupon code, which is exactly why it's interviewed, not bought.

Included with every seat

The seat comes loaded.

Founding Operators don't start from an empty app. We build your restaurant into PreShifter before your first brief. The setup work that usually stalls software is done for you, before night one.

Onboarding value, included
$0+
at our standard rates · $0 with your seat
01
Menu build-out, done for you

Send us your menu. We enter every dish, modifier, and allergen, structured for briefs and 86s. You open the app to a finished room.

$900Included
02
Founder onboarding & strategy session

One-on-one with the founder: your service mapped into the system, your first briefs planned, your team's rollout scripted.

$300Included
03
The Pre-Shift Playbook system

The playbook, the upsell scripts, and the profit-recovery guide: the full written system behind high-profit pre-shifts.

$200Included
04
White-glove support

A direct line, answers before doors, and when something needs fixing, it's handled for you, not explained to you.

$500Included
05
Your first month, on us

The subscription starts free. See the calm on your own floor before the first invoice exists.

up to $245Included

First month valued at the Pro Max founding rate. Yours matches your tier.
Every item included with every founding seat, on any tier.

The number that never moves

The rate that never rises.

Same tiers as the pricing page, same system, same everything, at the founding rate. The only difference between these cards and list price is the interview.

Annual shows your effective monthly rate · billed once a year

Core 27% UNDER LIST
$92 $67/mo

$799.99 billed once a year.

Up to 25 staff · 1 location
Rate locked — never rises
MOST FOUNDING SEATS
Pro 32% UNDER LIST
$158 $108/mo

$1,299.99 billed once a year.

Up to 60 staff · 1 location
Rate locked — never rises
Pro Max 30% UNDER LIST
$275 $192/mo

$2,299.99 billed once a year.

Unlimited staff · 1 location
Rate locked — never rises

Struck prices are today's list rates · Multi-location groups: founding terms are custom: book a scoping call

Five years from now, this chart is the whole argument. Your line doesn't move.
Pro tier · annual billing
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 List — $158/mo today, and list prices only drift one way Your founding rate — $108/mo, locked $600+ / year stays in the till

At today's list, the lock keeps $600 a year in your pocket on Pro — every year, for as long as you stay. Every list increase after that widens the gap in your favor. You'll never fill out a form to keep it. It's just your price.

The interview, honestly

Twenty-five seats. Deliberately few.

White-glove onboarding and real founder access don't scale. That's the whole reason the cohort is capped. So we choose carefully. Here's the honest filter.

Apply if
You run — or want to run — a real pre-shift, and you're tired of it living on paper and memory.
You operate a single location with a team you brief daily, from a 20-seat bistro to a 200-cover room.
You'll say the uncomfortable thing: to us, about our product. That's the job.
You want a tool shaped around how you actually run service, and you're early enough to shape it.
Skip it if
You want software you install and never think about. Fair: that's what the list plans are for.
Twenty minutes a month of feedback genuinely isn't there in your schedule.
You're between concepts: the program needs live services to be worth anything to either of us.
You're here for the discount alone. It shows in the first call, every time.

Not a fit isn't a closed door. The list plans and the 14-day trial are open to everyone, always.

The process

Qualifying takes one call.

01

Book the interview

Fifteen minutes with the founder: the same call as the demo. You'll see the system live either way.

02

We talk fit

Your room, your rhythm, your appetite for candor. Decided fast, usually on the call itself.

03

Your rate locks that day

Seat claimed, rate locked, menu build-out scheduled inside the week. Your first brief ships days later.

And if it's not a fit? You've spent fifteen minutes, seen the product live, and keep the playbook: the demo's walkout deal, unchanged. No list-price penalty, no waitlist purgatory. We'll tell you straight on the call.
The calendar · Cohort 01

Pick a time. That's the application.

There's no form behind this page. The fifteen-minute interview below is the entire process, and it books straight onto the founder's calendar.

Fifteen minutes, founder-led. The same call as the demo. You'll see the system live either way. A straight answer on the call. Fit or not, you'll know before you hang up. Qualify, and your rate locks that day. Seat claimed, menu build-out scheduled inside the week. Pass, and you keep the playbook. Fifteen minutes spent, nothing owed either way.
You'll meet Jazek Creacy — FounderEx-FOH manager & bartender. Every interview, run by him.
The interview calendar
Founding Operator · 15 min · times shown in your timezone
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25 founding seats · the calendar closes when the chart fills
Before you apply

Asked before applying.

Not while you're subscribed. The rate you lock on qualification day is your rate on monthly or annual billing, through every list-price increase, for as long as your subscription stays active. If you cancel and come back later, you return at whatever list is then. That's the one way to lose it.

One ~20-minute feedback conversation, plus honesty in between when something breaks or delights. No essays, no surveys, no committee meetings. You run your restaurant; telling us the truth about the app is the whole job.

No. Same terms as every PreShifter plan: no contract, cancel anytime, keep access through the period you've paid for. The lock protects your price; it doesn't bind your exit. We keep the deal by being worth keeping.

Core, Pro, and Pro Max — single-location plans, any size room. Multi-location groups get founding terms built custom on an Enterprise agreement; mention it on the call.

Yes — every founding seat gets the full stack: menu build-out done for you, the founder onboarding session, the playbook system, white-glove support, and your first month free. It's not a Pro Max perk; it's what "founding" means here.

Founding pricing closes with Cohort 01. If we ever open a second cohort, it won't carry these rates — the deepest discount belongs to the operators who took the earliest bet. List plans and the free trial stay open to everyone.

Because the program only works if the feedback is real. A discount attracts buyers; an interview selects partners. Twenty-five operators who'll tell us the truth are worth more to this product than five thousand silent subscribers — and the rate reflects that value honestly.

Cohort 01 · Applications reviewed weekly

Seats are interviewed, not sold.

One fifteen-minute call decides it. Qualify, and your rate locks for as long as you stay — with $2,000+ of onboarding done before your first brief. Pass, and you've lost fifteen minutes and kept the playbook.

Pick your interview time ↑ Compare with list pricing
15 minutes · Founder-led · Straight answer on the call · When the chart fills, this page comes down

Rather prove it to yourself first? Start the 14-day free trial — and apply whenever you're ready.