Management Operating Plane for Distributed Teams

Close the remote-contributor management chasm.

Cadence is the management operating plane for remote and hybrid companies that have outgrown proximity-based management.

It turns 1:1s, goals, recognition, ER context, surveys, and culture signal into a human-owned system where AI develops managers and employees, humans remain accountable, and consented Personality Intelligence profiles support conversations — never scores.

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Cadence 1:1 Meetings workspace showing scheduled manager-report conversations

Product Proof

Real product surfaces, expandable for inspection.

The public site uses rendered in-app views for 1:1s, goals, Personality, and 9-box calibration; live workflows stay separated from roadmap previews.

1:1 calendar rhythm

Rendered workspace view showing scheduled manager-report 1:1s with recurrence and status context.

Goals in the operating plane

Rendered goals surface showing company, team, and individual goals with progress and risk status.

Personality with consent boundaries

Rendered Personality surface showing working-style context as coaching support, not scoring.

9-Box calibration matrix

Rendered 9-box calibration matrix with dual-rating context and roadmap-adjacent claims kept separate.

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How Cadence Works

AI develops managers. Managers develop people.

Cadence is a management operating system — not a decision-maker. The AI helps managers prepare, reflect, and improve. Every people decision stays with the human who owns it.

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Human-in-the-loop

AI coaches. You decide.

Cadence surfaces patterns — low 1:1 frequency, recognition activity, goal drift, ER context, survey signals, and consented working-style context where Personality Intelligence is enabled. Woven 1:1 prompts remain roadmap-labeled. Your managers review every suggestion, edit every agenda item, and make every call. The AI never takes an action on a person that isn't human-approved first.

"The tool does the preparation. The manager does the leading."

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Data & Privacy

Your conversations stay yours.

What's said in a 1:1 stays governed by tenant access controls and consent policy. AI-generated summaries require the same consent guardrails as recording, and HR-facing views should rely on aggregate signals rather than raw meeting transcripts. Your workforce data never trains any AI model, ours or anyone else's.

Audio capture is optional. The platform delivers full value with text-only structured notes.

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Documentation

The record your counsel will appreciate.

Consistent, timestamped 1:1 notes, goal updates, and ER case documentation built into every interaction — not added retroactively. When you need a defensible performance record, it's already there, structured and complete, from the first conversation.

Built for the scenario where a manager and an employee disagree about what was said.

🔒 Data encrypted at rest & in transit

👤 No AI decisions on people

🚫 No customer-data model training by default

📄 DPA available for review

✅ SOC 2 readiness in progress

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The Problem

The management problem hiding in plain sight.

When your team is distributed, the informal mechanisms that made management work disappear. No hallway conversations. No reading body language. No overhearing who's struggling or celebrating who's winning in the break room.

What you have instead: a stack of disconnected tools, compliance theater, and a manager population whose effectiveness varies wildly — and whose impact on retention you can't measure until someone resigns.

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The Fragmented Stack

One tool for 1:1s. Another for performance. Another for surveys. Another for recognition. Six platforms that don't talk to each other — and nobody has the full picture.

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The HRIS Gap

Your HRIS tracks records. It wasn't built for operational management. Forcing it into that role produces clunky workflows and zero intelligence.

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The Lottery

Without a system, management quality is luck. Get a gifted coach and your career accelerates. Get an inconsistent manager and you become a resignation statistic.

Cadence is the system that closes all three gaps — and produces intelligence none of them can.

The Solution

One operating plane. Live management workflows, with roadmap depth clearly marked.

Cadence sits above your HRIS and alongside your video calls — the workspace where management actually happens.

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Consistency

Systematic management

Structured 1:1s, goal tracking, and operating rhythms happen reliably — not when managers remember to schedule them.

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Intelligence

Unified intelligence

Connect 1:1 quality, recognition patterns, ER case history, survey sentiment, and consented working-style context into one Culture Scorecard no fragmented stack can produce. Predictive retention and employment-decision use stay off the current-claim list.

Coaching

AI that develops managers

AI summaries and private coaching are live development infrastructure. They raise the floor on management quality without replacing the relationship or making decisions about people.

Platform Modules

Core management workflows live today. Roadmap modules are labeled.

Cadence connects the operating rhythms managers already run. Preview capabilities are shown for direction, not sold as currently available.

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1:1 Management Engine

The heartbeat of Cadence. Structured agendas, AI summaries, private coaching, and follow-through are live workflows.

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Goals & OKR Tracking

Goal creation, updates, and progress tracking are live. Goal context inside the 1:1 is preview until backed by current tenant proof.

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Personality Intelligence Live

Personality working-style profiles, team view, and coaching read-surface are live in Professional. Woven prompts, retention inputs, and any scoring or employment-decision use remain roadmap or never.

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9-Box Talent Calibration Live

Core 9-box calibration workflows are available in Professional and Enterprise. KVD, predictive retention, and advanced movement analysis stay roadmap-labeled.

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ER Command Center

Full case lifecycle from verbal warning to PIP. Connected to the full management record — so context exists before the case opens.

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Recognition

Recognition feed and posting are live. Recognition-ratio analysis is preview, not an enforced GA control.

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Survey Engine

Pulse response collection and aggregate survey analytics are live. Full campaign templates and manager-level attribution remain preview or roadmap until verified.

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Job Architecture

Job architecture import, versioned role definitions, level context, and role assignments support admin setup today. Role-recasting workflows remain roadmap.

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Connected Agents (BYOA) Preview

BYOA over MCP is preview-labeled. External customer connections open after scope-consent and scoped audit logging ship.

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Culture Scorecard

The unified intelligence layer. Manager scorecard and org-health heatmap views are live; predictive turnover, board-ready reporting, and scoring remain roadmap items.

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Built For Everyone

Built for every layer of the org — one platform.

Cadence looks different depending on where you sit: IC clarity, manager team health, L2 chain signal, CHRO command, and CEO altitude.

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Individual Contributors

Your 1:1s, goals, recognition history, and private coaching in one system.

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Managers

The workspace you actually run 1:1s in. Structured follow-through, AI coaching, and core 9-box calibration are live; recognition-ratio enforcement remains preview.

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Senior Leaders (L2+)

Manager-chain visibility across 1:1 activity, ER context, survey sentiment, and org-health signals. Recognition-ratio enforcement remains preview.

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CHROs & People Leaders

Operational command center — ER pipeline, active PIPs, survey campaigns, manager scorecard and org-health heatmap views, and calibration cycle progress.

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CEOs

Strategic altitude on whether the organization is healthy enough to execute: Culture Scorecard rollups, hotspots, and focused drill-down.

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Transparent Pricing

Consolidate the management workflows that are live today.

Pricing starts at $12/seat/month. Self-serve access is live, and roadmap capabilities are labeled separately from current deliverables.

Essentials

$12/seat/mo

GA target · Billed annually · Min. 50 seats

Core management operating plane for organizations building their management foundation.

1:1 Management Engine
Goals & OKR Tracking
Recognition & Rewards
Pulse survey response collection
Job Architecture
AI meeting summaries

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Stop leaving management quality to chance.

Every day without a system is another day where your employees' careers depend on whether they got lucky with their manager. Cadence is the operating plane that changes that.

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