Covered surfaces the critical duties someone owns the moment their time off is approved, assigns each one a named backup, and flags the gaps before the out-of-office reply goes out.
Vacation Tracker, Day Off, Calamari, Palmy: a calendar of who's out is where they all stop. What happens to that person's work is still a Google Doc or a Slack thread nobody reads once they're gone.
Not a calendar. A ranked list of what's uncovered right now, ordered by how soon it breaks.
Four pieces, built around the moment a PTO request is approved, not around a calendar grid.
Duties surface the moment a request comes in, pulled from what someone already told their manager mattered. No separate form to fill out before you can approve.
You pick the backup. Covered tracks who, by when, and whether they accepted, it never guesses a person for you.
Duties with no backup surface before the absence starts, ordered by how soon they're due, not buried in a report after.
The day someone's back, Covered shows what actually got done against what's still open, so nobody walks into a surprise on day one.
PTO gets requested the way it always has, in whatever tool your team already runs.
Covered pulls in the requester's critical duties and flags anything with no backup.
A manager picks a name and a deadline. The backup gets a note on exactly what they're covering.
On the day back, a short checklist confirms what shipped and what's still open.
It doesn't manage approvals or accrual. It manages what happens to the work while someone's gone.
No. It sits beside whatever you already use, Deputy, Sling, Homebase, When I Work, or anything else. Covered doesn't manage approvals or accrual, it manages what happens to the work.
No. A manager or the requester picks the backup deliberately. Covered tracks the assignment, the deadline, and confirms it was accepted, it doesn't guess who should cover what.
Early access starts with Slack, Google Workspace, and a webhook for anything else. More integrations follow the teams that join early access.
Duty capture and manual backup assignment are free for any team size. Paid coverage, gap alerts, and the return checklist runs $4–6 per user per month for teams over five once we're past early access.
We're building Covered with a small group of ops leads before opening it up. Early access includes free duty capture, priority onboarding, and a say in what ships next.