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Run a brighter, calmer studio.

Playbooks and field notes on keeping members longer, finding the money leaking, and giving your team their week back.

The words Day one beside a list of operational roles a first-time studio owner gets from the first morning
Studio Management

From three years of expensive lessons to day one

The barrier to opening a studio is a knowledge gap, not nerve. A Gen 2 studio hands a first-time owner expert operational help from day one.

Phil Goodwin ·
A studio floor plan with intelligence behind the back desk and people on the open floor
Studio Management

Behind the desk, not in the room

AI does not make a studio less human. A Gen 2 studio runs the back office and keeps the room human: intelligence behind the desk, people on the floor.

Phil Goodwin ·
A ranked Today card showing three prioritised studio tasks out of forty, ordered by value and urgency
Studio Management

Forty decisions, time for three

Running a studio is forty decisions a week with time for three. A Gen 2 studio ranks them so you act on the three that matter most.

Phil Goodwin ·
A job ad listing four back-office roles with the salary struck through and replaced by one membership
Studio Management

The team a single studio could never hire

A big chain runs on a back-office team a single studio could never afford. A Gen 2 studio gives one owner that team behind the front desk.

Phil Goodwin ·
Forty dots with three lit in turquoise, representing forty studio decisions a week with time for three
Studio Management

The Gen 2 studio: when every decision finally has help behind it

Gen 1 software recorded your studio. A Gen 2 studio gives a single owner expert help on every decision, the team a small studio could never hire.

Phil Goodwin ·
Abstract top-down view of a still body of water rendered as a lattice of glowing connected nodes and fine linking lines, representing linked data records resting beneath a calm surface, in cream and clay tones
Technical

The analyst you can't afford, already hired

People ask which AI model is behind Kula Intelligence. The model is the least interesting part. The real work is the data lake underneath, the thing enterprises hire a team to run and a boutique studio never could.

Peter ·
Pilates and Yoga Training
Business

The business is the barrier, not the yoga or Pilates

Four hours with a room of teacher trainees made one thing clear: nobody's scared of teaching. They're scared of the business underneath it. That's the part that's finally changing.

Phil ·
Someone just resigned. What do I do? We asked the AI — live.
Business

Someone just resigned. What do I do? We asked the AI — live.

A live first look at Kula Intelligence with a Bondi studio manager. Mid-session a teacher resigned — and within the hour she had a costed replacement, a retention play and a marketing campaign.

Phil ·
BodyMindLife Bondi
Business

Becs didn't get a dashboard. She got a leadership team.

A Bondi studio manager spent half an hour with the executive team her business could never afford, a CFO, an HR lead and a yield manager on tap, and turned a stressful resignation into an exciting new chapter for a teacher and the studio.

Phil ·