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Built for Studio Owners Who Need Real Systems

Studio Sensei started because we watched independent studio owners spending hours every week on work that software should handle — and using five different tools to do it, none of which talked to each other.

We're building one system that handles scheduling, bookings, payments, policy enforcement, and AI-assisted operations — where the AI reports to you, not the other way around.

1–3 locations

Our target studio size

6 tools

Average tools replaced

Propose → Approve

Our AI model

14 days

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Our Story

Why We Built Studio Sensei

The studio management software market serves gyms and fitness franchises well. It doesn't serve independent studios nearly as well — and the difference shows up in complexity, pricing, and the amount of setup work required before you can do anything useful.

We talked to dozens of studio owners before writing a line of code. The problems they described were remarkably consistent: juggling multiple apps that don't share data, manually enforcing policies they'd defined but couldn't systematically apply, spending hours on administrative work that software should handle.

The AI angle wasn't a starting assumption — it emerged from a specific observation. Studio owners weren't missing information. They had more data than they could act on. What they needed was a system that surfaced the right information at the right moment and made it easy to act on it — without taking the decision out of their hands.

That's the product we're building. One platform, honest AI, and a clear commitment: every action the AI proposes, you approve before it executes.

// How We Work

Our Values

Owners stay in control

Every AI action requires explicit approval before it executes. You define the policies. The system enforces them. Nothing runs autonomously.

Transparency over impressiveness

Sensei always explains why it's surfacing an issue or suggesting an action. If we can't explain the reasoning, we don't surface the suggestion.

Built for studios, not gyms

We're not building for enterprise gym chains. We're building for a yoga teacher who opens their second location, or a dance studio that's grown to need real systems.

Honest about what's planned

If a feature isn't built yet, we say so — clearly and visibly. We'd rather lose a sale than create an expectation we can't meet.

// Team

The People Building It

[Proof: pending — placeholder team. Real bios and photos before launch.]

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Alex Chen

Co-founder & CEO

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Jordan Patel

Co-founder & CTO

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Sam Rivera

Head of Product

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Morgan Lee

Lead Engineer

// Next Steps

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