HEARD!

Predict Turnover.
Protect Profits.

1st Place · Pepperdine Social Enterprise Collective 2026

HEARD! is the first proprietary predictive workforce intelligence engine built exclusively for hospitality — stopping burnout before it becomes a resignation. Move from reactive scheduling to proactive retention.

Built by hospitality operators · 24/7 support · Anonymous reporting baked in

HEARD! · Product Walkthrough
By The Numbers

The industry's most expensive blind spot.

70–80%
Annual hospitality turnover
Highest of any US industry
$6,000
Cost per resignation
Cornell School of Hospitality
17M
US hospitality workers
Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024
0
Tools predicting it
Until now
The Cost of Silence

Turnover in hospitality isn't a recruitment problem. It's a cultural one.

Scheduling software manages shifts. HR platforms track compliance. Engagement surveys capture sentiment after the fact. None of them see resignation coming. HEARD! does.

Legacy Scheduling & HR Stacks
  • Two disconnected platforms — neither built for hospitality
  • Reactive reporting after the resignation lands
  • Blind to schedule density, shift volatility, and cultural risk
  • No anonymous channel — issues escalate by accident, if at all
HEARD! Predictive Platform
  • Proprietary BurnoutRate™ across 35 weighted categories and 200 data points
  • Color-coded 0–100 risk score with structured manager check-ins
  • Anonymous reporting with full escalation logic, baked in
  • One platform replacing scheduling + HR + engagement tooling
Proprietary Technology

The BurnoutRate™ Algorithm.
Our science. Your advantage.

A proprietary scoring engine we built from the floor up — fusing 35 weighted categories and 200 live data points into a single 0–100 number that tells you who's at risk, why, and how much time you have. A 20-point swing in 7 days fires an alert regardless of absolute score — rapid deterioration caught before it becomes a resignation, a walkout, or worse.

What was once a gut feeling is now measurable, defensible, and ownable — and only HEARD! has it.

0 – 49Green — Healthy range
50 – 64Amber — Elevated, monitor
65 – 69Amber Alert — Manager check-in
70 – 84Red — 24h action window
85 +Critical — Simultaneous HR + Manager
The Product

Three tiers. One platform. Built for how hospitality actually runs.

Employee Mobile App

Where the signal enters the system

Schedules, shift check-ins, and supportive wellbeing prompts feed the BurnoutRate™ engine. Mood data is never visible to managers — privacy is structural.

Manager Dashboard

Algorithmic insight, translated to action

Real-time burnout alerts with operational context. Structured QR-confirmed check-ins create an accountable record without ever capturing the conversation.

HR Dashboard

Organization-wide oversight with teeth

Anonymous reports route intelligently — issues implicating a manager bypass them entirely. Harassment reaches HR immediately. Nothing falls through.

Founder Story

I was the chef. I lived this.

Blake Tallents · Founder & CEO

I spent a decade on the line. I burned out. I watched the people I respected most burn out next to me. And I lost friends in this industry to suicide.

Every single time, the warning signs were there — in the schedule, in the shift patterns, in the silences. Nobody was reading them, because nobody had built the tool to. Hospitality runs on intuition, and intuition fails quietly. By the time someone walks, you're not just losing a person. You're losing months of training, team chemistry, and — too often — someone who needed help long before they needed a new job.

I built HEARD! so no operator has to find out the hard way again. The BurnoutRate™ algorithm is everything I wish I'd had as a chef, as a manager, and as a friend — turned into a system that listens before it's too late.

1st Place·Pepperdine Social Enterprise Collective 2026
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Design Partner Pilot

Become a launch partner.

We're selecting a small cohort of multi-property hospitality operators for paid design-partner pilots. Co-build the roadmap, name a case study, and lock in founder pricing for life.

  • 12-month pilot with founder-priced ACV
  • Direct line to Blake + product team
  • Co-development of integrations specific to your stack
  • Named case study (with your approval) on launch

We review applications weekly. All submissions are confidential.

Free Workforce Audit

A Workforce Health Audit. On the house.

Upload 6 months of anonymized historical roster data. We'll run it through the BurnoutRate™ model and hand you a Workforce Health Audit showing exactly where, when, and why you lost staff. 100% free.

  • NDA-grade handling. Fully anonymized intake.
  • Audit delivered within 7 business days.
  • No commitment. No sales sequence.

By submitting, you agree to our data-handling terms.

Privacy, Data & Compliance

What you need to know before a pilot or audit.