Built in the booth, not in a boardroom.

I’m Nick. I’m a working DJ in the Melbourne hip hop and R&B scene — clubs, private gigs, produced events. Kadens didn’t start as a company idea; it started as the mess on my own phone.

My bookings lived across WhatsApp, Instagram, text, email, and a spreadsheet I updated when I remembered. The moment that made this product was specific and unglamorous: standing in a supermarket on a Thursday, not sure whether Saturday’s gig was actually confirmed, scrolling three apps trying to find the message where somebody may or may not have said “locked in.” If you play for a living, you know that particular sick feeling.

Everything I tried was built for someone else. Wedding CRMs assume every gig is a wedding and every client fills in forms. Link-in-bio tools are decoration — they don’t know what a booking is. Invoicing tools think a gig is a line item. Nobody had built for the DJ who plays a club on Friday and a 21st on Saturday — and that person is most working DJs. They had no tool at all, so they ran their business out of a group chat.

So Kadens is that tool: one inbox for every booking however it arrives, a calendar that tells the truth, a page you can put on a business card, and — when the night is big enough to have a script — the run-sheet and live console to run it.

Kadens doesn’t do your bookkeeping, your tax, or your invoicing. There are good tools for that. Kadens runs your gigs.

Five events. 100+ guests each. Every one run on Kadens. Beau, an MC working Melbourne production events, took Kadens from first enquiry to last cue across five real nights before it had a single paying customer.

Kadens is available worldwide today. We’re building local density one scene at a time, and Melbourne is first. If your scene is next, tell us.