Kadence

Kadence appears to be independent and active. No acquisition, merger or rebranding was found in this pass despite this segment having consolidated heavily. The most recent concrete corporate event located was a USD 20 million Series A announced in July 2025 with High Alpha among the investors, and the company site credits Dan Bladen as chief executive and co-founder. A January 2026 press release describes a rebuilt visitor management system. Ownership should be read as unverified-but-unchanged rather than positively confirmed, since no vendor statement of ownership was read.

The product structure is more interesting than the marketing, and it is unusually explicit about splitting the two halves of this category. WorkOps Team covers booking, Kadence AI in Teams and Slack, automatic check-in, visitor management, workplace insights and a Kadence MCP server in early access. WorkOps Pro adds room displays, a visitor kiosk, Move Manager, HRIS integrations named as Workday, BambooHR and HiBob, workplace events, employee surveys and custom roles. SpaceOps is the space planning line: an AI planning agent, stack and scenario planning, space planning down to seat level, guided workflows, publishing plans through to WorkOps, and floor plan editing. An Enterprise Bundle combines WorkOps Pro and SpaceOps. Editable floor plans and visitor management documents are paid add-ons, and Insights Plus is an add-on on the Team tier.

That stack and scenario planning capability puts Kadence in rarer company than most booking apps. Being able to plan to seat level, run scenarios and then publish the resulting plan into the booking system is the workflow that organisations usually have to stitch together across two vendors.

Commercially, Kadence publishes no figures. The pricing page states that quotes are available in your local currency, that onboarding and implementation cost nothing on every plan, that billing is by active user meaning people who make a booking within the month, and that contracts run at least one year billed annually. Active-user billing is a genuinely different model: an organisation where only a third of staff book in a given month pays for a third, which can be far cheaper than per-seat licensing for low-attendance hybrid patterns. There is no free plan and no trial mentioned; the calls to action are a demo and a quote.

Kadence fits organisations that want booking and real space planning from one vendor and whose office attendance is patchy. The active-user billing model is the standout commercial feature: if you have 2,000 employees but only 600 book a desk in a typical month, you pay for 600. That is materially different from per-seat pricing and makes Kadence worth a quote for any organisation with low or uneven return-to-office rates. Conversely, if nearly everyone books every month, active-user billing offers no advantage and the lack of a published rate makes comparison hard.

The SpaceOps line is the other reason to shortlist it. Stack and scenario planning to seat level, with plans publishable into the booking system, covers a workflow most pure booking apps cannot touch. If you are currently exporting floor plans to a spreadsheet to plan a reorganisation, this is the capability to look at.

Reasons for caution. Nothing is priced publicly, there is no trial, and the minimum commitment is a one-year annually billed contract, so evaluation requires a sales process and there is no way to start small. Several desirable items are paid add-ons rather than included: editable floor plans, visitor management documents and Insights Plus. Read the add-on list carefully against your requirements, because the headline tier names understate what you will actually need to buy. The AI planning agent and MCP server are both recent and the MCP server is explicitly early access, so treat those as unproven.

Typical use cases: hybrid organisations with uneven attendance wanting usage-based billing, workplace teams needing scenario-based space planning alongside employee booking, and organisations wanting HRIS-driven user provisioning from Workday, BambooHR or HiBob.