Comparison
The spreadsheet is the real competitor, and we respect it
Nearly every downballot field program runs on a shared spreadsheet, because it is free, everyone knows it, and it works right up until the week it matters most. This page is about that week.
What the spreadsheet cannot see
The double-booking
Two organizers edit two tabs, and Jasmine is now at Takoma Rec and Petworth Library for the same 10am shift. The spreadsheet shows two filled cells. Capstone Volunteer flags the conflict the moment the second assignment lands, because both cells are the same person in one system.
The gap hiding in a tab
With 74 centers and 700+ shifts across tabs, an empty cell is invisible until someone scrolls to it. The gap panel lists every uncovered shift in one place, ranked by urgency, with fill candidates attached. Nobody scrolls tabs at midnight.
The no-show with no history
The spreadsheet records that a cell was filled. It does not record that this volunteer has flaked twice before. Capstone Volunteer carries reliability counts across campaigns, so the fill panel already knows who shows up.
The midnight report
Someone still has to turn the tabs into an answer to "are we covered tomorrow?" That someone is the field director, at midnight. The 7am report answers it automatically, every morning, in one email.
Your spreadsheet is the starting point, not the enemy
Switching costs nothing but the upload. The importer reads your existing workbook as it is, with column auto-mapping, phone and ward normalization, and dedup that runs exact, then phone, then fuzzy. It was built against real campaign workbooks and it survived the sci-notation phones, the multi-value cells, and the free-text shift entries. Ten minutes of setup, one upload, and the grid is live.
And the price argument is smaller than you think. The 7-day trial costs nothing and is long enough to import the workbook, build the grid, and read two 7am reports. A spreadsheet costs $0 and one gap at 6am. After the trial, $99 a month buys the version of election week where that gap was filled Monday night.