Qwick
4 known investors
Qwick operates a platform for hospitality businesses to post shifts, find and vet workers, and manage payroll and compliance. The platform serves restaurants, hotels, catering companies, and other hospitality venues with on-demand staffing, hiring, and workforce management tools.
Also known as QwickGo
Investors · 4
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Qwick operates a workforce management platform for the hospitality industry, connecting businesses such as restaurants, hotels, catering companies and event venues with a network of vetted hourly professionals. The platform is organized around four products that can be adopted individually or together: a Marketplace talent network for building a bench of favored workers with clock-in/clock-out time tracking, messaging, shift templates and rosters, and two-way ratings; QwickGo for on-demand shift posting with automated matching and same-day coverage; Hire, which ranks candidates using shift performance data and supports paid working interviews and conversion to permanent roles; and Compliance and Pay modules covering scheduling rules, break and overtime enforcement, worker classification and multi-state payroll.
The company describes an intelligence layer built on four AI agents: Mara for shift matching, Amelia for asynchronous voice and structured candidate screening with results in 24 hours, Oppy for visual planning of large events, and a support agent handling shift questions and escalations with human backup. Workers on the platform pass identity verification, background checks and role-specific skills assessment before their first shift, and a rating system continuously surfaces higher performers.
Qwick reports 350,000+ verified professionals, more than 2.5 million shifts filled, a 95% fill rate, a 30-minute average fill time and coverage in 42 states, with more than 35 hospitality roles available for booking.
Business model
Qwick provides a software and marketplace platform to hospitality employers. For on-demand staffing, the company states there are no contracts or minimums and that businesses pay only when shifts are filled. Its Hire product charges a conversion fee when a marketplace worker is hired directly, with the fee dropping to $0 once the worker reaches 300 hours. Payroll services cover both W-2 and 1099 workers across 50 states.
Revenue is tied to filled shifts (paid only when a shift is filled, with no contracts or minimums), conversion fees when businesses hire professionals permanently, and payroll/compliance services for W-2 and 1099 workers.
Traction
Reported figures include more than 350,000 verified professionals, over 2.5 million shifts filled, a 95% fill rate, a 30-minute average time to fill, a 4.8-star average professional rating, and use by what the company describes as thousands of businesses nationwide.
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Market position
Qwick presents itself as operator of hospitality's largest talent network and a workforce platform addressing coverage gaps, compliance risk and payroll administration for the industry.
Qwick positions itself on breadth (staffing marketplace, hiring, compliance and payroll in one platform), pre-shift vetting of every professional through ID checks, background screening and skills assessment, matching based on shift performance data rather than resumes, and compliance rules that block noncompliant scheduling, overtime and break scenarios before they occur, including predictive scheduling requirements in more than 30 cities.
Technology
The platform pairs marketplace and workforce management software with AI components: intelligent matching trained on more than 2.5 million real shift outcomes, AI-scored candidate profiles, asynchronous voice and structured screening, GPS-verified clock-in and real-time shift tracking, and a compliance engine that applies rules as blocking constraints at scheduling, time tracking and payroll stages rather than flagging violations after the fact. Data from each completed shift — attendance, ratings, rebookings, applied rules and payments — feeds back into subsequent matching.
Go-to-market
The company markets self-service entry points such as posting a shift or booking through QwickGo alongside sales-led demos, and segments prospects by need (urgent single shifts, ongoing recurring coverage, hiring from the shift pipeline, or enterprise-wide workforce management at scale).
Hospitality businesses of varying size, from single venues needing one bartender for a same-day shift to multi-location and national operations requiring recurring coverage, event staffing, compliance, payroll and white-label capabilities across up to 50 locations or more.
Geography
United States; the company reports operating across 42 states, payroll capability in all 50 states, and predictive scheduling compliance coverage in more than 30 cities.
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Key figures
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Qwick do?
- Qwick is a hospitality workforce platform combining on-demand shift staffing with hiring, compliance and payroll tools.
- Who are Qwick's investors?
- Qwick's investors include Foundry, Kickstart, Stage 1 Ventures, Album VC.