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  "license": {
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Homebase: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/homebase/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/homebase/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/homebase.md",
  "title": "Homebase: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Homebase is on the AI workforce planning software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Oct. 20, 2026.",
  "period": "June 5, 2025 to Oct. 20, 2026",
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    "summary": "\"Schedule. Manage. Pay. All from one easy app.\" Homebase sells scheduling, time clocks, payroll and hiring to small businesses with hourly teams. Homebase Assistant, the AI layer, builds schedules from availability and history, spots open shifts and finds people to fill them, flags overtime and compliance risk, and checks timecards before payroll. Owners set the rules and keep the final say.",
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    "text": "\"Schedule. Manage. Pay. All from one easy app.\" Homebase sells scheduling, time clocks, payroll and hiring to small businesses with hourly teams. Homebase Assistant, the AI layer, builds schedules from availability and history, spots open shifts and finds people to fill them, flags overtime and compliance risk, and checks timecards before payroll. Owners set the rules and keep the final say.",
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      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/homebase/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-10-20",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Homebase announces Homebase Assistant for hourly teams",
      "summary": "Homebase Assistant helps with scheduling, payroll timecard checks, job posts, finding replacements for uncovered shifts and screening candidates. SiliconANGLE reports: 'None of them is contacted before the owner gives the go-ahead.' Homebase's own assistant page offers a waitlist.",
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        "name": "The AI workforce planning software map",
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      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/homebase/#event-2",
      "on": "2025-06-05",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Homebase launches Hiring Assistant and Scheduling Assistant",
      "summary": "Homebase introduced its first AI Assistants, a Hiring Assistant and a Scheduling Assistant, 'automating tedious, manual tasks end-to-end'. The Scheduling Assistant builds schedules automatically and was free on any paid tier until 5 September 2025; owners confirm interviews the Hiring Assistant pre-schedules.",
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        "url": "https://www.asbn.com/articles/homebase-brings-ai-to-main-street-with-faster-hiring-effortless-scheduling-tools/"
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