FAQ

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Verified Engineering
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Documented Design
Specified in internal design material; intended, not yet implemented or verified live.
Documented Pricing
Stated in current pricing material; commercial terms may change before general availability.
Strategic Direction
A committed direction for the product and business, not a delivery date.
Requires Verification
Flagged rather than guessed. Where we don't know, we say so.
  • Is Cadence Ops a project management tool?

    Strategic Direction

    No. Project management tools treat every initiative as a task list that finishes and is archived. Cadence Ops treats a production as an operational unit that recurs, evolves and generates knowledge the next production should reuse.

  • Do higher plans unlock more features?

    Strategic Direction

    No. Every plan — including your free first event — runs the same complete core platform. Plans differ by how many productions can be active at once and by organisational features (SSO, SLAs, dedicated onboarding), not by which modules you can see.

  • Is the first event really free?

    Documented Pricing

    Yes. Your first production runs on Cadence Ops at no cost — a real event with your own crew, gear, vendors and documents, not a sandbox or a scripted prototype. No card is required and nothing starts a subscription.

  • What does the Event Pass actually cost, and what do I get?

    Documented Pricing

    $690 AUD per event: one active production, the full platform, full crew and vendor capacity, for the life of that production. It is a single payment for a single event — not a monthly subscription and not an annual commitment.

  • If I start on Event Pass, do I lose that money if I later go Annual?

    Documented Pricing

    No. 100% of your Event Pass spend from the preceding 12 months is credited against your first year on the Annual plan. Trying Cadence Ops one show at a time does not mean throwing that money away when you move across.

  • What does the Annual plan cost, and what is included?

    Documented Pricing

    From $899 AUD/month, billed annually — $10,788 AUD/year. It starts with 4 concurrent active productions and the complete platform.

  • Does "4 concurrent active productions" mean only 4 events a year?

    Documented Pricing

    No. It means up to 4 productions can be active at the same time. When one closes out, the slot frees up — so you can run substantially more than 4 events across a year. If you regularly need more than 4 active at once, contact us for a tailored capacity arrangement.

  • What if we are bigger than the standard annual capacity?

    Documented Pricing

    That is what Enterprise is for: capacity sized to your production calendar, plus implementation, multi-entity deployment, SSO and commercial terms shaped around how you actually operate. Priced on the specifics rather than a published number.

  • Will AI features cost extra?

    Strategic Direction

    Core AI-assisted capabilities are part of the platform, not gated add-ons. Where a feature carries genuine variable compute cost, usage may be metered — that's a compute cost pass-through, not feature-gating.

  • Is the "Oracle" / institutional-memory layer live today?

    Documented Design

    No. It is not shipped software. It exists as a named interface concept in internal design material. Treat any reference to it as directional, not a current capability.

  • Is native ticketing available to customers now?

    Verified Engineering

    The underlying signed-ticket infrastructure exists in the system, but no live event currently issues tickets through it — external ticketing integrations are what's actually in use today.

  • What is StageTrace, and is it part of Cadence Ops today?

    Verified Engineering

    StageTrace is a separate, early-stage computer-vision spatial tracing capability under active development. It is not yet integrated into the core Cadence Ops platform.

  • Can I see real customers or usage numbers?

    Requires Verification

    We don't publish customer names, testimonials, revenue or usage figures, because none have been verified for public disclosure. Where we don't have verified evidence, we say so rather than imply it.

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