Every night. Every slot.Every DJ. One page.
Rosters you can see at a glance, DJs you drag into slots, a public page for the night that updates itself, and a broadcast that fills a hole at 4:10 on a Friday. Free, indefinitely — not a trial, not a seat count.
One roster for every date, a page that promotes it, and a pool to pull from when someone drops.
Multiple rooms on one night, staff who can each book, and residencies that repeat without rebuilding.
Agencies work differently — seats, artists, split calendars. Talk to us and we'll walk you through it.
One spot for every roster.
Not six group chats.
Right now your lineups live in a chat thread, a note on your phone, and your memory. Kadens puts every night you run — every date, every slot, every DJ — on one grid. You can see the next eight weeks in a glance, and so can everyone who needs to.
Your DJs, dragged into slots.
Build the shape of the night once — warm-up, peak, close — and it repeats for every date. Then fill it. Residents sit where they always sit. Guests drop in for one date. An empty slot stays visibly empty until someone's name is in it.
- Residents and guests, marked. You can see who's a fixture and who's a one-off without opening anything.
- Slot times live on the night, not on each DJ. Set warm-up / peak / close once and every date inherits it.
- Clashes surface before a slot locks. When a DJ accepts, Kadens checks their whole calendar — across your rooms and everyone else's nights — and flags a double-booking before it's confirmed.
- Confirmed means confirmed. The DJ accepted a slot with a date, a time and a fee attached. Nobody "thought it was next week".
- Holes are loud. An unassigned slot looks unassigned — on the grid and in your reminders.
A public page for the night
that promotes itself.
Every night you run gets its own page: your artwork, your dates, and a lineup that fills in as you lock DJs. It's live from the moment you create the night — so the link in your bio is never out of date, and the current lineup is always the one people see.
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Your artwork, your night, your name
The page wears the night's brand, not ours. Drop in the artwork you already made and the page is built.
One link that never goes stale
Put it in the venue's bio and leave it there. It shows this week's lineup this week, and next week's next week, without you touching it.
The lineup announces itself
The moment a DJ accepts a slot, they appear on the page with their set time — and the share card they post for that date is already showing the gig.
One home for the artwork
Every flyer and story asset for the run lives here. Your DJs get told the moment new artwork lands, so they promote with the right one.
The crowd rates the night
Ratings from people who were actually there, feeding the DJ leaderboard. It gives your regulars something to do, and gives you proof the room is good.
You stop chasing DJs.
They start finding you.
Every locked DJ shares the night, which sends their crowd to your page; every rated set carries your room onto their public profile. It runs whether or not you're working on it.
You lock a DJ
They accept the slot. Their name, set time and photo appear on the night's page automatically.
They share it
Their own share card for that date is ready the same moment — so they post it, and their followers land on your page.
The night builds a record
Ratings from people who were there land on the night, and every rated set names it — your room travels on each DJ's public profile.
A drop-out fills itself
Broadcast the open slot to your residents — or just the DJs who've marked themselves available — and the first confirm takes it. Everyone after that sees it's gone.
You can still book the same four people every week. This just means you're not stuck when you can't.
Twelve minutes from
"I can’t make it" to locked.
This is the moment that ruins a Friday. A resident pulls out five hours before doors and you start ringing around. Here's the same afternoon with a broadcast — the real one that put this feature in the product.
Mara pulls out of the peak slot.
One message. Five hours to doors, a paid lineup announced, and 400 people who've seen her name on the flyer.
You hit broadcast on the slot.
The slot flips to open on the grid and on the night's page, and Kadens pushes it to your residents — or just the ones who've marked themselves available for this run, if you'd rather keep it tight.
Kurv claims it. The slot locks.
First confirm takes it — for everyone else the slot shows filled, so nobody turns up thinking they've got the set. The grid updates, the night's page updates, and Kurv's own share card for the night is already correct — he can post it before doors.
No ring-around, no "does anyone know someone", no posting in three group chats and hoping. And if nobody claims it, you know that at 4:30 instead of 9:00.
Publish the artwork once.
The whole lineup posts your night.
The job that eats a promoter's week isn't making the flyer — it's chasing seven DJs to use the right version of it. So the hub isn't storage. Publish a night's artwork and it stops being a file you send: it's already on the gig card every DJ on that lineup shares.
The artwork hub
Every asset for the run — story, feed, flyer — attached to the night, not buried in a Drive folder nobody can find. Versioned, so “the current one” is never a question.
Your art, on their posts
You publish; they share. No re-upload, no “can you send me the story size”, no chasing. And the DJs who most need a good-looking card are the ones who get your brand whole: a DJ on the free tier posts your night with your artwork, your colour and your name on it.
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A free DJ on your lineup — the poster treatment, your artwork, your colour, your name on the lockup. They didn't upload a thing.
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A Working DJ posts the same night under their own brand — your artwork still front and centre.
Give the room something to argue about.
People who were at the night can rate the DJs who played it. Those ratings roll into a public leaderboard — by city, by scene — so your regulars get a reason to come back to the page, and your DJs get a reason to send people to it.
- Ratings from the floor. Not a star-rating widget on a website — people who were actually there.
- Your DJs showcase where they play. Every rated set names the night. Your brand travels on their profile.
- Proof for the guest you’re chasing. A visiting DJ can see the room is good before they answer you.
A leaderboard for nights Coming soon
Right now the leaderboard ranks DJs. A ranking for brands and venues is on the roadmap — same ratings, aggregated to the night. Not shipped yet.
Why DJs answer you faster.
A DJ gets your slot offer with everything they need to say yes in it — date, room, set time, fee, and the artwork. Two taps, no negotiation thread, no “let me check and get back to you”. That's the whole reason this works: the DJs are already here, using it for their own bookings.
“u free the 25th?”
- No time, no fee, no room — three more messages before anyone knows anything
- Sent to five people at once, then an awkward retraction to four
- Buried in a group chat by Tuesday
- Nothing in writing when the fee is disputed
A slot they can accept
- Date, room, set time and fee attached to the offer
- Any clash with their other gigs is flagged before it locks
- One tap to claim, and it's in their calendar and yours
- Confirmed in writing, both sides looking at the same record
Why this costs you nothing.
Fair question, and the honest answer is a business model, not generosity. Kadens makes money from DJs who want their own brand on their booking page, and from DJs running produced events. Promoters and venues are the reason those DJs are here at all.
DJs pay. You don't.
Our revenue comes from DJ subscriptions — a marketing tier and an operations tier. Charging the people who bring the DJs in would be charging twice for the same room.
You make the product work.
A booking platform with no nights on it is a directory. Every roster you build makes Kadens more useful to every DJ, which is what we actually sell.
It's an activation, not a purchase.
Switching on a booker workspace adds it to your account. There is no booker plan in billing, no card, no seat count, and nothing to cancel.
So we'll be specific about what free means
- No card at signup, and no card later.
- No cap on nights, dates, slots or DJs you roster.
- We don't sell your contacts, your lineups, or your data. Ever.
- No commission on bookings. We're not in the middle of your money.
- Your DJs don't need a paid plan to accept your slots.
- If that ever changes, existing nights keep working and you'll hear it from us first.
More rooms. More staff.
Same one grid.
A venue isn't one promoter with more nights. There are two rooms running at once, three people who can book, and a residency that's been going for four years. All of that is handled — and none of it is a different plan.
Two rooms, one Friday, no collisions.
Give the night as many rooms or stages as it has, each with its own slots and times. One grid shows both. The night's public page shows both lineups, and a DJ accepting in one room is flagged if they're already on somewhere else that night — including your other room.
Everyone who books, on the account.
Add your bookers, your ops manager, your bar manager. They each get their own login and their own view of the same rosters — so when someone's on leave, the night doesn't sit in their inbox.
A weekly that doesn't get rebuilt weekly.
Set the pattern once — every Friday, three slots, these residents — and the dates generate ahead of you. Change one week without touching the rest, and see the whole run at a glance so a hole four weeks out is visible now, not on the day.
What promoters say back to us.
“My DJs won’t sign up to another app.”
Most of them are already on it — Kadens is free for DJs and they use it for their own bookings, calendar and public page, not for you. When you offer a slot, it lands somewhere they're already checking. A DJ who isn't on Kadens yet gets an invite by email instead — the sign-up is free and takes about a minute, and once they're on your roster they get slots like anyone else.
“The group chat works fine.”
Until someone leaves the chat, or two people say yes to the same slot, or the fee you agreed in March is a scroll-back in October. The chat is fine for talking — it's a terrible database. Keep the chat. Put the roster, the times and the fees somewhere they can't be scrolled past.
“I only run one night a month.”
Then it takes about ten minutes to set up and you'll use it twelve times a year for free. The value isn't volume, it's the two things that hurt at any scale: a slot to fill this week, and a page you can point people at that's always correct.
“I book the same four people. I don’t need a pool.”
Good — that's a healthy night, and nothing here pushes you to change it. The pool is for the Friday one of the four is sick. It sits there costing nothing until you need it, and when you do it's the difference between twelve minutes and five hours.
“Free means you’ll charge me later, or sell my data.”
Neither. DJ subscriptions are the business — you're the reason DJs find it worth paying for, so charging you would be charging twice. We don't sell contacts or lineups, we don't take a commission on your bookings, and there's no booker plan in billing to quietly switch on. If that ever changed, existing nights keep working and you'd hear it from us first.
We'll set your first night up with you.
Send us the night, the slots and your regulars, and we'll build the roster, the page and the artwork hub with you on a call. It takes about twenty minutes and it costs nothing — we'd rather you started with it working than with an empty grid.
Straight answers.
Is it really free, or free for now?
Free, indefinitely. Turning on a booker workspace is an activation, not a purchase — there's no card, no seat count, and no booker plan in billing to upgrade to. Our revenue comes from DJ subscriptions.
Do my DJs need to pay for anything?
No. Everything a DJ needs to accept your slot, see the artwork and show up on the night is free for them too. DJs only pay if they want their own branding on their personal booking page, or the tools for running produced events.
What if a DJ isn't on Kadens?
Invite them by email. They sign up free — about a minute — and land on your roster; from then on they get your slot offers, the clash checks, the app notifications and the artwork alerts like any other resident.
Can more than one person at the venue book?
Yes. Add as many staff as you like with their own logins and roles. Seats only exist on the Agency plan, which is a different product for DJ agencies managing artists.
Can I run two rooms on the same night?
Yes — each room gets its own slots and times on the same date, and both appear on the night's page. If a DJ accepting one room is already booked elsewhere that night, including your other room, the clash is flagged before it locks.
What happens to the night's page if I stop using Kadens?
It stays live with whatever's on it until you take it down, and you can unpublish it any time. Your rosters, your history and your artwork are yours — nothing gets held hostage.
I'm a DJ agency. Is this the right page?
Not quite. Agencies manage artists rather than nights — separate calendars, seats, and split visibility — and that's a paid per-seat plan. Get in touch and we’ll show you how it’s set up.
Set up your first night.
It's free, and it takes ten minutes.
No card. No seats. No booker plan to upgrade to.
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