We're Looking for Beta Testers: A Free Month of Pro for Emergency Medicine Groups

We're opening Slipstream ER to a small group of beta testers, and if you build the schedule for an emergency department, this is aimed squarely at you. Ten emergency medicine groups will get every Pro feature free for a full month — the complete platform, not a stripped-down preview — in exchange for using it on a real schedule and telling us what's wrong with it.

That last part is the actual price of admission. We don't need cheerleaders; we need directors and schedulers who will run a real month through the engine and tell us where it fights them.

Why we're doing a beta at all

Slipstream was designed by an emergency medicine physician, and it's built around the constraints that make ER scheduling unlike any other scheduling problem: circadian-aware shift progressions that rotate forward instead of backward, night runs that stay grouped instead of scattering across the month, real recovery time after nights, nocturnists treated as a role rather than a burden to redistribute, time-off request windows, and month-over-month equity tracking for nights, weekends, and holidays.

The engine behind it is the most advanced AI scheduling system we know of that was purpose-built for emergency medicine. It generates a fully-covered month in seconds and shows its work: every constraint it honored, every trade-off it made, and a plain-English report of anything it couldn't satisfy.

But an engine is only as good as the departments it has scheduled. Every group has a wrinkle we haven't seen — the doc who can only work Tuesdays, the two-hospital split, the resident coverage rules. Beta testers are how those wrinkles get found and fixed before the wider launch.

What you get

A full month of Pro, free, for your whole group. That includes unlimited schedule generation, the equity report and monthly email, provider self-service for time-off and swaps, open-shift management, coverage tracking, and export to the formats your hospital already uses.

You'll also get us. Beta groups work directly with the founder — setup help, a walkthrough for your schedulers, and a direct line for anything that breaks or confuses. When the beta ends, beta groups keep a permanent founding-member discount as a thank-you for taking a chance on something new.

And the practical pitch is simple: the schedule that eats a weekend of someone's life every month gets built in seconds, the fairness arguments get an answer that isn't "trust me," and the spreadsheet retires.

What we ask from you

Use it for real. Load your providers, set your rules, generate an actual month, and publish it — or run it side-by-side against the schedule you build the old way and tell us where ours falls short.

Tell us the truth. A beta tester who says "this constraint doesn't match how my department actually works" is worth more to us than a hundred compliments.

That's it. No case-study obligations, no testimonial requirements, no contracts. If Slipstream doesn't earn its place after the month, you walk away having lost nothing but a few setup minutes.

Who's a good fit

Emergency departments and EM groups of roughly five to forty providers — physicians, PAs, and NPs — where one person currently builds the schedule by hand. If you have nocturnists, a night-equity problem, or a group chat that lights up every time the schedule drops, you're exactly who we built this for.

Spots are limited to ten groups because we onboard every beta site personally, and we'd rather do it well for a few than badly for many. When they're gone, they're gone until the next round.