The Gen 2 fitness business | Kula
The Gen 2 fitness business · for studio and gym owners

Your whole business, pulled together.

Keep the software you already use. Use the AI you already use.

Your booking system knows bookings. Your payments platform knows payments. Payroll, accounting and marketing each know their part, and the person joining it all together is you, usually at night. A Gen 2 business pulls your studio or gym together once, underneath, so you can ask it anything from your phone, your instructors can see the room before they walk in, the tools you wish existed can be built on it, and work can be handed to it. On the software you already run. One level at a time, each paying its way before the next.

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Level one is US$149 a month, month to month. Fourteen days to decide, money back if it wasn’t worth it. Prefer company the first time through? .

Owner
Teamvia the Tribe app
ChatGPT
Claude
Gemini
AI workers
AI apps
Kulaone shared understanding of your studio or gym
Bookings
Payments
Payroll
Accounting
CRM
Marketing
Operations

Keep the software you already run. Nothing below the bar is replaced.

Why changePulled together01 Ask it02 The team03 Build04 AI workersOne level at a timeHelp
Why studios and gyms are changing

Today, you are the business brain.

Bookings, payments, payroll, accounting, marketing and a few spreadsheets each hold a piece of the truth. None of them holds the whole. So you become the integration, the memory and the decision engine, and every question ends the same way: let me check and get back to you.

Chat answersReasoning understandsAction actsA workforce owns jobs

AI is moving from answering questions to doing work.

The step-change is not a better chatbot. It is software that can reason across the business and complete work. That only helps a studio or gym if the software can see the whole of it.

The marketing AI sees the ad account. The finance AI sees the books. The retention AI sees the CRM.

An AI worker is only as good as the business it can see.

Point an AI at one system and it sees a slice, and it can be confidently wrong about the rest. Each one is sure of its own corner and blind to the others. Another silo does not fix the silos.

The AI built into your software. A new all-in-one platform. A consultant.

The alternatives all miss the same layer.

The AI inside your booking system sees one system. A new all-in-one makes you migrate. A consultant builds one client at a time. Gen 2 puts the shared understanding underneath the tools, not another tool the business has to move into.

For you
Gen 1
Gen 2
Sunday night
Five tabs, three logins and a spreadsheet, to answer one question.
Ask it on your phone. Answered before the kettle boils.
When a teacher resigns
An evening working out who can cover, who only comes for her, and what it costs.
One question: replacement options, the members at risk and what to do first.
What your instructors know walking in
Who is booked, and not much else.
Who is back after a gap, who is new, who needs a word, with the reason attached.
The tool you wish existed
Request, specification, roadmap, developer, integration. A year, if ever.
Describe it. Build it on the business. Use it.
Who does the admin
You and your team, with software recording that you did.
Your team and AI workers, from the same understanding, with you making the call.
What you keep
Everything, plus the job of joining it together.
Everything you already run. Kula connects across it.
How it pulls together

One business. One shared understanding.

Kula sits between your people and your software. It connects across the systems your studio or gym already runs, keeps one picture of the business current from them, and hands that picture to whatever is asking: your AI, your instructors’ app, a tool you built, an AI worker. You do not need to know where an answer lives. Neither does your AI.

  • One picture. Every member, class, plan, instructor and payment across every system you run, kept current as the day goes.
  • One definition of a member. When the booking system, the payments platform and the CRM each have their own version of Sarah, Kula knows they are the same person.
  • Who sees what. Your instructors see their room, you see the business, and an AI worker sees only what its job allows.
  • A memory. What happened, why you decided what you decided, and what worked next time. It stays when a manager leaves.

Everything above the Kula layer works from the same four things. That is why each level you add works with the ones before it instead of beside them, and why nothing has to be re-entered along the way.

You don’t need to know where the answer lives. Neither does your AI.

The four levels

Ask it. Put intelligence with the team. Build what you need. Give AI work.

Each one sits on the same shared understanding of your studio or gym. Each one is optional. Each one is labelled with what you can use today, because a roadmap is not a product.

The Gen 2 studio: one business, one shared understanding. Four levels side by side: ask your business, an owner asking on her phone which classes need attention; equip your team, an instructor seeing today's classes with member context; build what you need, custom apps shaped by your experience; give AI work, a human and AI workforce. All four stand on Kula, one shared business context of members, classes, team, payments and operations, which reads from the bookings, payments, CRM, accounting, marketing and payroll software you already use. Less admin, better connections.
Available today
01 · Ask it

Ask the whole business, from anywhere.

Kula Intelligence connects across the systems your studio or gym already runs and gives Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini one picture of the whole business to reason over. You ask in plain language, in the app already on your phone, from the floor, the car or the couch.

  • Thirty seconds on your phone instead of thirty minutes on the laptop. How did last week go, who has gone quiet, can we afford another 6am: asked and answered where you are.
  • The teacher who resigns on a Tuesday: replacement options, the members anchored to her and what to do first, from one question and no prebuilt workflow.
  • Read-only, through safe views rather than raw access. Nothing changes in the systems your team uses every day.
  • Mindbody, Wix and GymMaster today. Other booking systems are on the connector roadmap, and telling us yours moves it up the list.

This is where most studios start, and where many stay for a while. That is fine. The shared memory is already building.

Included with Kula Fitness
02 · Put intelligence with the team

Context reaches the person when the work happens.

What you know about the business is only useful when it reaches the person at the moment it matters. Tribe is the instructors’ app: their schedule, who is coming, Whispers, messages, covers and compliance, across every studio or gym they work at.

  • For gyms and PTs as much as class studios: 1:1 sessions live in the same app as classes, so a PT sees their day the same way an instructor does.
  • A Whisper before class: “Sarah’s back after three weeks, welcome her home”, with the reason attached and the instructor still deciding what to say.
  • Covers offered to the people who are available and qualified. First to accept gets it, and the booking system updates itself.
  • One login across every studio an instructor teaches at, which is a large part of why teachers value it.

Tribe ships with Kula Fitness, the studio side owners and managers run the business from.

Examples today, talk to us
03 · Build what you need

Software at the speed of the operator.

Phil has run studios for twenty-five years. He is not a software engineer. Now he builds the software his studio needs, because the business is already understood underneath and AI writes the code. Twenty-five years of running the floor decides what should exist.

  • An instructor bonus model, PT commissions, a small-class notice, an intro-pass tracker, a Meta tracker, an invoice creator: tools built on the business, not another silo.
  • The old path was problem, request, specification, roadmap, developer, integration. The Gen 2 path is problem, describe, build, use.
  • The Instructor Bonus Builder is published on GitHub with full documentation and a live demo that needs no login, so you can run it on your own studio or gym, or build your own from it.

These are examples built on the business, not included modules. What you can build depends on your systems, your data and the job, so tell us the job and we will say what is possible now and what needs work.

Where it is going
04 · Give AI work

A human and AI workforce, from one understanding.

AI is moving from answering questions to doing work. Once your studio or gym is understood in one place, work that draws on that understanding can be handed to an AI worker: the weekly read of what needs attention, the draft to a member who has gone quiet, the first pass at next month’s roster. You make the call.

  • Retention, marketing, finance, operations, member support, compliance: AI workers take their place in the same row as the team, standing on the same Kula layer.
  • An AI worker is only as good as the business it can see. Point one at a single system and it sees a slice, and can be confidently wrong. Another silo does not fix the silos.
  • Every worker acts inside the same policy and permission model as everything else, and every action is on the record.

This is the direction of Gen 2, and we show it as that: what we are building towards, not something on the price list today.

One level at a time

Start with the business you already have.

Nobody moves a studio to Gen 2 in a weekend, and nobody has to. Each level uses the context the one before it built, and you can stop at any level and still be running a Gen 2 studio at that level. The order below is the order studios actually take.

01
Connect it

Pick your booking system and connect in minutes. A single studio is usually ready in about thirty minutes, and bigger multi-site books take a few hours. Nothing below is replaced.

02
Ask it

The same day, ask the questions that used to take three logins. This is where most studios start, and where many stay for a while. The shared memory is already compounding.

03
Put intelligence with the team

When the team is ready, add Kula Fitness and give your instructors Tribe. Same context, now on the floor, before class.

04
Build what you need

When a tool you wish existed comes up, describe it. Build one, use it, then decide on the next. Twenty-five years of studio experience decides what should exist.

05
Give AI work

When there is a job you would hand to a capable new hire with clear rules, hand it to an AI worker with the same rules. One job at a time, with approval where it matters.

The AI gets better on its own. The understanding of your business only compounds once it’s connected.

Every answer, correction and outcome adds to a memory of your studio or gym that stays when a manager leaves and gets more useful over time. Whichever level you are on, that memory is already working for the next one.

Help, when you want it

As much help as you need. Or none.

Most owners connect and go on their own. If you would rather have company, we can work with you at whatever depth makes sense, from a free fifteen-minute call to a full workshop with your team.

Fifteen minutes · free

A quick call

For the question you actually have: does this fit my systems, what would level one look like for us, what should I ask first. No slides.

About an hour · free

A Studio Health Check

We connect your numbers and walk through them with you: who is drifting, where the money is leaking, what to do this month. You keep the findings either way.

Half day to full day · priced for each client

A workshop with your team

Running a Gen 2 studio or gym, on your own data: levels one and two live in the room, the tools worth building, the jobs worth handing to AI, and the order to do it in. What it costs depends on what you need, so it starts with a conversation.

Consultants: if you advise studios or gyms yourself, we can help you bring Gen 2 to your clients. .

Your data, locked down

Built on your own data, kept safe.

Every level works from the full picture of your business, and every level sees only what policy and permissions allow. Your data is walled off on its own, encrypted, read through safe views rather than raw access, and every action is on the record.

Runs on your own connected data.
Your studio walled off on its own.
Every action on the record.
Encrypted, with strict access controls.
Fair questions

Honest answers, before you commit.

Yes. Kula reads members, bookings, attendance and payments from GymMaster, Mindbody or Wix whether your business runs on classes, PT, memberships or all three. Tribe covers 1:1 sessions as well as classes, so a PT sees their day the same way an instructor does. The questions are the same: who is drifting, which slots are full, what happened while you were away.
No. Most studios connect and ask, and stay there for a while. Each level is optional, each one uses the context the last one built, and you can stop at any level and still be running a Gen 2 studio at that level.
No. Kula reads the systems you already run and replaces none of them. Mindbody, Wix and GymMaster are connected today. Other systems are on the connector roadmap, and telling us yours moves it up the list.
Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, on a plan that supports connectors. If you already use one of them, you are ready. The email we send when your studio is live starts your first session in one click.
Kula Intelligence, the ask-it level, for studios on Mindbody, Wix or GymMaster. Tribe, the team level, with Kula Fitness. Custom apps are examples and reference builds we work through with you. AI workers are the direction we are building towards.
Your studio sits walled off on its own, encrypted, read through safe views rather than raw access, with every action on the record. Kula can read everything you have connected and change nothing.
Connect in minutes. A single studio is usually ready in about 30 minutes, and we email you the moment it is. Bigger multi-site books can take a few hours.
Yes, as much or as little as you need. A free fifteen-minute call to answer the question you actually have, the free Studio Health Check where we walk through your own numbers with you, or a workshop with your team on moving your studio or gym to Gen 2, priced for each client depending on what you need. If you are a consultant who advises studios or gyms yourself, we can help you bring Gen 2 to your clients too.
Kula Intelligence is one price, month to month, with fourteen days to decide and your money back if it was not worth it. Kula Fitness includes it. Current pricing is on the pricing page.
Build yours

This is a Gen 2 business. Let’s build yours.

Pick your booking system and connect in minutes. Level one is thirty minutes away, month to month, with fourteen days to decide. Or bring one question you cannot answer without three logins and put it to a real studio first.