BPM OS – Personal Weekly planner
Your week.
Your Rows.
Your Rules.
Cadence is a personal weekly planner built for the way a BPM practitioner actually works — with a recurring row for your daily commitments, custom swim lanes for different kinds of work, and a holding row for everything that needs scheduling eventually.
Free for personal use. Runs locally on your machine. No account, no tracking, no cloud. Team deployment is part of the BPM OS bundle.
What Cadence is – and Isn’t
This is your planning tool.
Not Your team’s. Yours.
01
Built for one person’s week
You spend all day managing other people’s processes, projects, and progress. Cadence is the one place your own week lives — what you have to do, what repeats every week, and what’s waiting for a slot.
02
Not a project board, not a task manager
Cadence doesn’t replace your kanban board or your email. It’s a weekly grid — Monday through Friday, your rows, your tasks. Simple by design, because your week is already complicated enough.
03
Made for how BPM work actually flows
The daily recurring row handles your standups, 1x1s, and publishing schedule. The holding row catches everything you haven’t placed yet. The middle rows are whatever your work actually looks like — not what a generic app decided it should look like.
“I tried every productivity app. They all wanted me to manage projects or set due dates or build systems. I just wanted to see my week — what’s recurring, what I need to do today, and what I’m not ready to schedule yet. So I built Cadence.”
Roland Woldt
Host, What’s Your Baseline? – EA/BPM Practitioner
“Turns out a lot of people wanted the same thing.”
How it’s structured
Four kinds of work.
One week view.
Cadence divides your week into four types of rows — each with a different color and purpose.
The structure is opinionated enough to be useful, flexible enough to fit your actual week.
All row labels are editable. All row colors are yours to set.
The default setup is a starting point. Rename “Recurring” to “Daily,” change “Work” to “BPM Projects,” add a “Private” row, remove one you don’t need — it takes about 90 seconds in the admin panel and it sticks.
Features
Everything for a clean
Weekly planning habit.
Recurring tasks that follow you
Mark any task as recurring — weekly, every N weeks, or daily on weekdays — and it copies itself into future weeks automatically. No more rebuilding your week from scratch on Monday morning.
Week-by-week navigation
Browse forward and back through any week in your history. Jump to the current week instantly. Each week is stored as its own file — lightweight, portable, and readable without the app.
Search across all weeks
The search bar finds tasks across every week in your history — not just the current one. Useful for finding when you last did something, or pulling up a task you remembered mid-week but can’t place.
Task templates
Set up a template of tasks that pre-populate every new week — your baseline week, so to speak. The recurring row syncs automatically, and you can set additional template tasks for any row and day.
Task details — links and importance
Mark tasks as important to make them stand out visually. Add a URL to any task — useful when a task is actually a meeting link, a Jira ticket, or a document you need to open when you get to it.
Git backup & local storage
Every week is a single JSON file on your disk. Connect a Git repository for automatic version history, or just leave the files in place — they’re yours, readable, and always there.
Why it’s free
Free for personal use.
On Purpose.
Cadence is the first BPM OS tool most people will try. So it should cost
nothing to start. Here’s the thinking behind that.
What you get for free
Server / team deployment is available as part of the BPM OS bundle ($299).
Who it’s for
One tool. One Person’s Week.
Cadence is a personal tool. But the people who need it most are the ones running the
most complex programs.
BPM / Process Managers
EA / IT Architects
Consultants & Practitioners
Who it’s for
Cadence is one piece of the BPM OS.
Cadence handles your week. Playbook holds your process documentation and
standards. Course Flow manages your training development projects. Atlas maps your
learning paths. Outline structures your content. Groundwork structures your ideas.
Together they form a local-first toolkit purpose-built for running a BPM program —
without a single subscription.
Pricing
Free to Start.
More when you’re ready.
Cadence is free for personal use, forever. When you’re ready for the full BPM OS — or
want to deploy it as a team tool — the bundles are there.
Free
Cadence
Weekly planner – free for individual use forever.
FREE
No purchase. No account.
– Other BPM OS apps not included
– Templates/content packs not included
Cadence Team license
A license key that allows multiple projects.
$29
Everything in Cadence
– Other BPM OS apps not included
– Templates/content packs not included
Best value
Full BPM OS Stack
All six apps – best value
$299
One-time · $225 saving vs. individual
– Templates/content available separately
Common Questions
Things people ask
Before they download
How is Cadence different from Notion, Todoist, or any other task app?
Most task apps are built around projects, tags, and due dates. Cadence is built around weeks — specifically, the week of a person who has recurring commitments, different kinds of work, and a running list of things not yet scheduled. It’s also local-first with no account required, which none of those tools are.
Is it really free? What’s the catch?
Yes, really free for personal use on your own machine. No catch. Cadence is the entry point to the BPM OS ecosystem — if it’s useful, the hope is you’ll eventually want Playbook or CourseFlow too. But there’s no obligation and no trial period that expires.
Can I use it on Mac, Windows, and Linux?
Yes. There’s a setup script for each platform. Once it’s running, it opens in your browser — so it looks and behaves identically everywhere.
Can multiple people use one Cadence installation?
Cadence is designed as a personal tool — one person’s week, one installation. If you want to deploy it on a shared server for a team, that use case is with a team license and BPM OS. Each person on the team would ideally have their own instance.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Cadence runs as a local server on your machine. As long as the server is running, it works without an internet connection. No cloud sync required.
What does “roll to next week” do?
At the end of the week, one click copies all unfinished tasks (plus your recurring ones) into the following week. You start Monday with your undone tasks already there, not scattered across last week’s view.
Can I use this alongside my existing tools?
That’s exactly how it’s meant to work. Cadence isn’t trying to replace your email, your calendar, or your project management tool. It’s the view of your own week that sits alongside all of those — your personal dashboard, not a second system of record.
How does Cadence fit with the other BPM OS tools?
Cadence is your week. Playbook is your team’s process documentation. CourseFlow manages training projects. And so on.
They run on the same platform launcher — one command starts all apps — but each is independent. Use one, use all, or start with Cadence and add more when you need them.
Ready to plan your week properly?
Download Cadence.
It’s Free
No account. No credit card. No expiry date. Just download it, run the setup script, and open your browser. Your week is waiting.
Part of the BPM OS from What’s Your Baseline?