Hi it’s Nawfal and Ismail,
and here’s why we are building Planifio
Two friends who got tired of watching managers drown in spreadsheets.
Our Story
It started with bad schedules.
Student jobs in Brussels. Retail, events, coffee shops. Every place had the same chaos: managers spending Sunday nights on Excel, last-minute WhatsApp panic, the same people always stuck with bad shifts.
Good managers were becoming spreadsheet zombies.
They didn't open a business to play schedule Tetris for 10 hours a week.
The Question
We are not all tech-savvy, so what if you could just talk to your schedule?
No 47-tab software. No 2-week onboarding.
Just: "I need someone for Saturday" — and it figures it out.
That's Planifio.
Why us?
Nawfal
Handles the business side: strategy, sales, making sure we're building something people actually want to pay for. He studied finance but realized spreadsheets are only fun when they're not about shift planning.
Ismail
The architect: built the whole platform, made sure your data stays safe (GDPR-compliant, obviously), and somehow keeps everything running while we throw new features at him weekly.
Alex
Our product and AI lead, who makes sure Pia (that's our AI assistant, you will love it) actually understands what you mean, not just what you say.
Why We Care?
We've been the employees with unfair shifts.
We've seen good people burn out and leave.
Scheduling should be fast, fair, and invisible.