Built to kill the scheduling spreadsheet

The problem

Every dance studio we've talked to does the same thing: they open a spreadsheet, start assigning classes to rooms and instructors, and then spend the next few hours (or days) hunting for conflicts. Is Sarah double-booked? Does this room have back-to-back classes with no turnover time? Did anyone notice that two advanced classes are scheduled at the same time as the beginner prerequisite?

It's a constraint-satisfaction problem — the kind of thing computers are genuinely good at. But studios keep doing it by hand, every session.

What Cadence does

Cadence takes your rooms, instructors, classes, and any rules you care about, and finds a valid schedule automatically. No conflicts. No double-bookings. In seconds, not hours.

Once your schedule is set, you publish it as a live URL — a real-time display your front desk can put on any screen. Instructors can check it from their phones. Parents can see what room their kid is in. And when something changes last minute, the display updates automatically — no refresh needed.

Who built it

Cadence is built by Rob Mastronicola, a software developer who got tired of watching small businesses solve hard operational problems with the wrong tools. Dance studios are organized, detail-oriented businesses — they deserve software that matches that.

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