Scheduling Wizard GTM brain

Scheduling Wizard creates physician, residency and fellowship schedules as a managed service for hospital departments and provider groups.

category

Managed physician scheduling

market profile

  • text: Residency and attending schedules must reconcile coverage, vacations, rotations and local rules, creating recurring administrative work.
  • text: The company positions itself as an outsourced schedule builder, alongside physician scheduling software and internal spreadsheet workflows.

personas

  • title: Residency program director or GME coordinator
    pains:
    • Annual rotations and call schedules require reconciling many program-specific rules.
    • Revisions can take substantial staff time and still provoke equity concerns.
  • title: Chief resident or chief fellow
    pains:
    • Schedule building competes with clinical and educational duties.
    • Vacation requests and rotation coverage must fit together fairly.
  • title: Physician group practice administrator
    pains:
    • Complex clinic and call coverage rules make schedule creation a recurring manual task.
    • Teams need a schedule compatible with their existing operating format.

icp

  • text: Hospital GME residency and fellowship programs with complicated rotation, block and call requirements, especially specialty departments.
  • text: Attending physician groups with recurring clinic and call coverage and a staff member responsible for schedule construction.
  • text: Academic medical center departments are evidenced customers, including Mass General and Johns Hopkins programs.

message pillars

  • text: Take schedule creation off the department's plate.
  • text: Address detailed local constraints rather than forcing a generic template.
  • text: Support the schedules departments actually maintain.

objections

  • objection: Our rules are too complex or unique for an outside service.
    response: Walk through real rotation, leave and coverage constraints and review a representative schedule and revision process.
  • objection: We already use a scheduling platform.
    response: Ask whether the service can deliver in your existing format and how updates flow into your current tools.
  • objection: How do we know the schedule will be fair and maintainable?
    response: Agree upfront on coverage, equity metrics, review responsibility and turnaround for revisions.

competitors

  • name: Thrawn
    website: https://www.trythrawn.com/
    why: Managed residency physician scheduling using optimization.
  • name: QGenda
    website: https://www.qgenda.com/physician-scheduling-software/
    why: Rules-based physician workforce scheduling software.
  • name: Amion
    why: Widely used physician and residency scheduling alternative.
  • name: Chiefly
    website: https://beta4.chiefly.app/blog/best-residency-scheduling-software
    why: Offers residency scheduling software and service.

influencers

  • name: Abdelrahman Hamimi
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/abdelrahman-hamimi-2064ab202_feeling-incredibly-grateful-to-share-that-activity-7437648821838401537-JiHx
    why: Co-founder and CTO shared the YC launch.

keywords

  • residency block scheduling service
  • physician call schedule outsourcing
  • fellowship rotation scheduling
  • GME scheduling software
  • chief resident scheduling
  • physician clinic scheduling

voice

  • Service-oriented
  • Practical and reassuring
  • Time-saving focused

signals

  • text: A residency program is approaching its annual block or call schedule build.
  • text: A department is growing rotations or struggling to balance coverage and vacation requests.

pricing

model: unknown

motion

sales_led

channels

  • outbound email
  • LinkedIn
  • customer referrals
  • SEO

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Samuel Oberly
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: Johns Hopkins and Cambridge trained Mathematician. Building the algorithms that will drive the future of healthcare administration and resource allocation. I am an award-winning and published mathematician, including a civilian service medal for my logistics algorithms built while working for the Department of Defense. I received four degrees in my four years at Johns Hopkins and have deep expertise in algorithm development.
  • name: Zachary Dermody
    title: Founder/COO
    role: COO
    bio: Co-Founder and COO of Scheduling Wizard. Johns Hopkins University, 2024. B.A. in Economics with a minor in Computer Science. Former logistics roles at Amazon and McMaster-Carr. Interested in technology, philosophy, and building the future.
  • name: Abdelrahman Hamimi
    title: Founder/CTO
    role: CTO
    bio: Co-Founder & CTO of Scheduling Wizard | MS, BS Computer science and BA Economics from Johns Hopkins University (2025) | AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Certified

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