Cadence Advisers is the software company behind Tenean: the phone line, the calendar, the customers, the money and the marketing in one place, with an assistant that knows all of it. Built for salon suite owners and service businesses, and run every day in a business we own.
Most operating businesses run on a phone, a calendar, a handful of apps and the owner's memory. Each tool does its job. None of them knows about the others, so the owner is the connection between them: copying, remembering, chasing.
Tenean replaces that arrangement with one record per customer and one place for everything that touches them. A call, a text, an email or a social message lands in one inbox, on the customer's record, on the business's own line. The calendar is the real calendar. The money is the real money. The assistant answers from the business's own facts, books from the real calendar, files what happened on the record, and says what needs the owner tomorrow.
It runs on the web, on iPhone and on Android with one login. It is priced as software, one monthly figure per location, never a share of what the business earns. Payments reach the owner's bank exactly as they do today; Tenean records them.
Tenean is one platform. What makes it a salon suite product or a services product is configuration, not a second codebase: each sector gets its own rooms and its own words on the same spine. A third sector is a configuration, not a rewrite.
For owners who rent suites to independent beauty professionals and are often not in the building. Suites and the floor plan, pros and leases, rent and tours, and every lead answered, booked and on the record. The owner's job is to keep the suites full and the pros in them; Tenean is built around that job.
Tenean for Salon Suites on tenean.com →For plumbers, electricians, cleaners and other service businesses. The first call answered and the visit booked, the estimate sent, the job on the record, the invoice paid. The morning read is the owner's: money won, estimates waiting, invoices past due.
Tenean for Services on tenean.com →The same seven pieces under every sector, in the words tenean.com uses for them.
Peter Lewis spent more than twenty-five years building and running enterprise technology, including AIR Cloud, the platform he took from a blank page to an eight-figure business at Verisk. In 2024 he founded PKNT Enterprises and became the owner of a 28-suite salon suite location in Sharon, Massachusetts.
The tools an owner is offered were each good at one narrow job and knew nothing about each other. The integration layer was the owner. So he built the operating system the business needed and ran the location on it: every lead, every tour, every lease, every repair and every dollar. That system became Tenean.
Cadence Advisers is the company that designs, builds and supports it. The discipline comes from enterprise software: one record, real numbers, AI with a person in charge. The shape comes from what an owner does all day.
The name is from the Latin tenere, to hold: the root of retain, maintain, sustain and tenacity. Tenean holds a business together, every customer, every conversation, every job, in one place.
Tenean is built the way we build everything: one industry-neutral spine, with each sector as configuration on top of it. Isolation between customers is enforced in the database, not intended in the code. Every outward-facing action has a person in the loop. Every standard is held by a test that reads the real source, and each guard is proven able to fail before it is relied on.
It is built and run by a small, senior team directing the agentic engineering organization described on our home page: one coordinator decomposes the work and dispatches AI engineers that each ship a single feature, while a separate operations team runs the live platform. The full engineering brief, with the architecture, the governance framework and screenshots of the running product, is on the platform page.
Tenean is built by Cadence Advisers, deliberately small and deliberately senior. Peter designs the platform and owns the customer relationship. Phillip owns whether it works, and whether it keeps working. The two ran technology together at Verisk for years, Peter leading the global operation and Phillip leading Europe.
The platform's architecture and the customer relationship. More than twenty-five years in enterprise software, and a salon suite location of his own that runs on Tenean every day.
The standard every deployment is held to before it reaches a customer, and the support that stands behind it once it is live. Eighteen years at Verisk, to Vice President of IT. Works from London, so support covers a second time zone.
Cadence Advisers is an advisory firm and a software company. The advisory work diagnoses where a business is out of rhythm and installs the systems that fix it. Tenean is the product those systems became: the operating system we install when the business is a salon suite location or a service business, and the product an owner can start on directly at tenean.com.
It runs on Demo Studios, our demo environment. Tell the team what your business does and they will show you the parts that fit.
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