The AI-powered operating plane that makes every manager your best manager — regardless of natural talent.
Remote and hybrid work removed the safety net. The hallway conversations, the body language reads, the informal check-ins that made management work — gone. What's left is a lottery. Some employees get a gifted manager who coaches, advocates, and develops them. Most don't. Cadence closes that gap.
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.
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.
Your HRIS tracks records. It wasn't built for operational management. Forcing it into that role produces clunky workflows and zero intelligence.
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 sits above your HRIS and alongside your video calls — the workspace where management actually happens.
Structured 1:1s, goal tracking, and calibration cycles happen reliably — not when managers remember to schedule them.
Connect 1:1 quality, recognition patterns, ER case history, and survey sentiment into one Culture Scorecard no fragmented stack can produce.
After every meeting, both the manager and the employee get private AI coaching on what just happened. The feedback loop that actually changes behavior.
Each module is powerful alone. Together, they produce intelligence no point solution can.
The heartbeat of Cadence. Structured agendas, AI-captured meeting notes, private post-meeting coaching for both participants.
Learn more → 🎯Live goal context in every conversation. Trend analysis over time. Accountability built into the 1:1, not bolted on at review time.
Learn more → ⬛Quarterly blind dual-rating with L1/L2 gap coaching. Top-talent retention workflows and structured bottom-left interventions.
Learn more → 📋Full case lifecycle from verbal warning to PIP. Connected to the full management record — so context exists before the case opens.
Learn more → ⭐The 5:1 Rule enforced. Manager recognition ratios tracked in real time and visible to L2. Recognition as accountability, not wallpaper.
Learn more → 📊Pulse, engagement, exit and stay interviews. Aggregate signals connected to the manager responsible — not just a department score.
Learn more → 🏗️Living role definitions visible in every 1:1. Career paths always current. Role recasting tied to 9-box outcomes.
Learn more → 🏆The unified intelligence layer. Manager effectiveness scores, turnover prediction, heat maps, and A-player environment scoring.
Learn more →Cadence works for the IC who wants to know where they stand, the manager who wants to be better, and the CHRO who wants to see everything.
Your goals, your feedback, your coaching — visible and private. Know where you stand, where you're going, and what happened in every 1:1.
The workspace you actually run 1:1s in. AI coaching after every meeting. Recognition ratio tracking. 9-box guidance for every direct report.
Dashboard of every manager in your chain: 1:1 compliance, recognition ratios, ER trends, survey sentiment, effectiveness composite.
Operational command center — ER pipeline, active PIPs, 9-box cycle progress, survey campaigns, merit cycle status, Culture Scorecard. Everything at scale.
The average fragmented management stack costs $25–30 per seat per month and shares no data. Cadence replaces all of it — starting at $12/seat/month at GA.
Pricing reflects GA targets. Current beta access is invitation-only.
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.