Built in the booth, not in a boardroom.

A working DJ, MC or band takes bookings from everywhere at once: a DM, a forwarded email, a text from a promoter, a conversation at the end of a gig. Every one of them has to end in the same three things — a date actually held, a price actually agreed, and somebody who actually turns up. Most of that lives in a phone, and a phone is not a system.

So the same failures repeat. A Saturday gets promised twice because the two threads were in different apps. A gig is “confirmed” in a chat that cannot be found three weeks later. On the night, the order of the room lives in one person’s head, and the crew find out what changed by asking. The bigger the night and the more people on it, the more each of those costs.

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

We build for the DJ who plays a club on Friday and a 21st on Saturday, because that is most working DJs and nobody had built for them. Wedding CRMs assume every gig is a wedding and every client fills in forms. Link-in-bio tools are decoration; they have no idea what a booking is. So the work went into the thing underneath: a booking that has a state, a date that is either held or it is open, and a night that runs off one sheet everyone can see.

Kadens is not your accountant. Bookkeeping, tax and BAS are somebody else’s job and there are good tools for it. What the paid tier does carry is the commercial paperwork attached to a gig: contracts with e-signature, and invoices issued from the booking with payments recorded against them.

Kadens is not a wedding planning tool. Guest lists, seating charts, budgets and registries belong with the couple and whoever is planning the day.

Kadens is not a marketplace. We do not rank DJs by what they pay us, and we do not sell your enquiries to anybody.

Kadens started as one working DJ’s mess — gigs spread across DMs, texts, email and a spreadsheet, with no way to answer “is Saturday actually confirmed?” without scrolling three apps. That is not a niche problem. It is how most of the scene operates, which is why the first version had to be built rather than bought.

Everyone who touches the product works events. Nothing ships here because it demos well.

Scene first. Kadens is available worldwide today, but density beats reach: a booking tool is worth more when the promoters, venues and DJs you already work with are on it. So we build one scene at a time rather than spreading thin across all of them.

The screenshots below are the running app. Where something is still being built, the pricing pages say so rather than paint it.

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

Who it is for

Working DJs, MCs and bands — and the promoters, venues and crew around them

Where we work

Available worldwide, built one scene at a time

Run on Kadens

Five events end to end, 100+ guests each

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