Symplr is 28 products. Untether is one system.
Symplr is a PE-built healthcare operations suite assembled through acquisitions, manager-first and enterprise-heavy. Untether is one AI-first, clinician-first system that executes the work.
Symplr is a private-equity-backed healthcare operations company (Clearlake and Charlesbank) built through acquisitions. Its platform brings together dozens of applications — credentialing, provider data, compliance, timekeeping, and, via the recent Smart Square acquisition, AI nurse scheduling.
A suite assembled through M&A
Symplr's breadth is real, but it spans products on separate codebases with varying maturity — a multi-vendor environment brought under one logo rather than one native system. Integrating those products is part of the customer's lift.
Manager-first vs. clinician-first
Symplr's scheduling and timekeeping are built around managers and complex pay rules. Untether is clinician-first: AI builds schedules around provider preferences, licenses, and patient demand, and providers self-serve.
One system that executes
Untether replaces the fragmented stack with a single AI-first system that schedules, operates, and reports — instead of a portfolio of point products to wire together.
Pick the workforce management software that fits how your care team works.
Symplr
Symplr may fit if you're a large system buying a broad operations suite.
- You want one vendor across credentialing, provider data, compliance, and timekeeping.
- You're a 10,000+ employee health system with complex union and pay policies.
- You're consolidating governance, risk, and compliance alongside workforce tools.
Untether
Untether fits if you want one integrated system that executes, not a suite to integrate.
- You want AI-first, clinician-first scheduling — not manager-first tools on separate codebases.
- You need the workforce layer to actually run operations end to end.
- You value one system of record over stitching acquired products together.
FAQ
Symplr fits large systems that want a broad operations suite under one vendor; Untether fits teams that want one AI-first system that actually executes scheduling and operations.
Untether is the AI-first, clinician-first alternative to Symplr — one native system instead of a portfolio of acquired products to integrate.
No — we consolidate schedules, rules, and timekeeping from your Symplr modules, so you move onto one system without starting over.
We map your modules, run Untether in parallel, then cut over region by region with on-site support — replacing several tools with one.
Untether models the full clinical workforce in one system and uses AI to schedule and operate it, rather than spanning separate products on different codebases.
AI auto-scheduling and execution in one system — open shifts, on-call, swaps, forecasting, and reporting — without wiring together acquired point products.
How to migrate from Symplr in 3 steps
- 1
Map your stack.
We consolidate schedules, timekeeping, and rules from your Symplr modules and your HRIS — no blank-slate setup.
- 2
Run in parallel.
Untether builds and operates schedules alongside Symplr so your team validates coverage before cutover.
- 3
Cut over with white-glove support.
We embed with your ops team, switch live region by region, and connect payroll — replacing several tools with one.