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Workplace operations software helps large employers coordinate hybrid offices while cutting underused real estate costs.
600 companies · 130%+ net dollar retention · $48–$80 per user/year · $4–5M ARR in early 2025
Kadence prices per person using the office ($48–$80 a year), not per square foot, and grows inside accounts twice: more offices and seats first, then extra modules like move and stack planning, which is how one cohort passed 130% net dollar retention.
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Dan Bladen pivoted Kadence from Chargifi, his wireless charging company, after the pandemic made office occupancy and desk allocation urgent. Nasdaq asked whether Chargifi’s cloud platform could instead manage a move to hybrid work. Kadence now serves about 600 companies, including Boeing, Bombardier, Rolls-Royce, Porsche and Revolut. Its core product coordinates desks, rooms, visitors and office use; Space Ops adds planning workflows for moves, stack plans and workplace scenarios. Pricing starts at $48 per user per year and reaches about $80 depending on modules. The company previously reached roughly $1 million in revenue with about 200 customers paying around $5,000 annually, then moved upmarket. It broke $4–5 million in early 2025. Bladen acknowledged an interviewer’s estimate placing current ARR around $15 million, and the episode’s closing recap says north of $10 million. The founder also reports 130%+ net dollar retention for a cohort. Treat those as interview claims, not audited statements. The business is a capital-intensive enterprise SaaS reference, not a quick solo build.
For workplace software sold to facilities and real estate leaders, begin with a narrow operational trigger rather than a broad promise about the future of work.
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Data credibility: Founder interview with Nathan Latka, recorded March 2026. Dan Bladen states the 600 customers, $48–$80 per-user pricing, about $1M revenue from roughly 200 customers at ~$5K in 2023, $4–5M in early 2025, 130%+ net dollar retention for the March 2025 cohort and the $20M Series A. Current ARR is the host's ~$15M estimate, which Bladen said they are "in and around"; the host's recap says north of $10M and new ACVs around $50K. The Willis Towers Watson savings figure is relayed by Bladen. Nothing was shown or audited.
Kadence moved from an early small-business model priced around $5,000 annually per customer toward a larger enterprise contract. In 2023, roughly 200 customers at that average produced about $1 million in revenue.
Kadence’s strongest expansion mechanism is a combination of durable workplace records and additional operational modules. Bladen says customers often start in one geography or location, then expand, while the product also adds module expansion.
Enterprise workplace software can spend months between a promising conversation and a meaningful deployment. Kadence had already lived through a long period at Chargifi where wireless charging looked inevitable but behaved like a vitamin rather than an urgent painkiller.
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