The studio OS for independent dance studios

Get your evenings back.

E-transfers and cheques for tuition. WhatsApp for studio time. Schedules emailed as PDFs. Parent questions at 11pm. Ida OS replaces the duct-tape stack with one system — built inside a real championship dance studio.

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Gott-Hughton dancers performing on stage

5–10 hrs/week

The admin time owners get back every week — more than a full teaching day.

Zero chasing

Tuition collects itself through Stripe. No e-transfer reminders, no cheque runs, no late fees to police.

11pm, answered

Parents ask Ida — your studio's built-in AI — and get answers from your documents without texting you.

Product

A live calendar and clean books, in one place.

Families book open slots themselves, and every tuition charge, custom invoice, and workshop payment lands in one ledger.

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The Ida OS studio calendar with classes, private lessons, and rentals

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The Ida OS payments dashboard with revenue charts and outstanding charges

The problem

The admin stack at a growing studio is held together with tape.

Most independent studios never adopted studio software — the big-box options are priced and designed for 300-student facilities with a front desk. So the owner becomes the front desk, and the tools become whatever was lying around.

Sound familiar?

The duct-tape stack we see at real studios.

E-transfers and post-dated cheques for tuition

Custom invoices built by hand in a separate paid tool

WhatsApp threads to coordinate studio time

Schedules emailed around as static PDFs

Parent updates sent one by one from Gmail

Competition signups and documents scattered everywhere

The fix

One system for the jobs you repeat every week.

Run the studio

Family records

Stop digging through inboxes and memory — guardians, levels, waivers, and billing status, one search away.

Live calendar

Change a class once and every family sees it instantly — no more emailing a new PDF. Works across every space you rent or own.

Attendance

Take the roll in one tap and let Ida OS track a rate per dancer — so a quiet absence shows up before the feis.

Get paid

Tuition and invoices

Tuition collects itself every month through Stripe. Families on negotiated plans get custom invoices without a separate $250/yr tool.

Workshops

Camps and intensives go from idea to paid signups in an afternoon — no forms tool, no e-transfer tracking.

Reach parents

Parent comms

'Cancelled this Sunday' reaches exactly the right families in one send — instead of forty Gmail threads.

Family portal

Parents log in to pay tuition, check the schedule, and find documents themselves — instead of texting you.

Answer less

Ida AI

Parents ask Ida and get answers from your documents — the 11pm questions stop landing on you.

Competitions

Who's entered, what they owe, what they need — answered before parents have to ask.

Your studio's brain

Stop answering the same question for the fifteenth time.

Tournament packets, FAQ docs, requirements, training videos — upload them once, and Ida, your studio's built-in AI, answers from them. Parents can ask Ida directly, so the question that used to land in your WhatsApp at 11pm gets answered without you.

See how Ida works

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The Ida AI assistant giving a studio owner a full snapshot of families, financials, and schedule

Why not big-box software

The things facility-scale software won't do for you.

Studio software built for large facilities assumes one owned building, a recital season, and a front-desk admin. Independent studios work differently — Ida OS is built around that.

Private bookings

Mark sensitive bookings private so they never show on the shared calendar. Fewer comparisons between families, fewer fights to referee.

Built for renters

Many independent studios rent hours across multiple spaces. Ida OS treats multi-studio scheduling as normal, not an enterprise add-on.

Competitions, not recitals

Big-box software is organized around recitals and costume orders. Ida OS is built for competitive schools that live feis to feis.

Custom invoices

Different families negotiate different plans. Build one-off invoices without leaving the system or paying for a separate invoicing tool.

Multiple owners included

Co-owned schools share one system with no per-seat surprises. Every owner sees the same calendar, payments, and families.

No per-student pricing

Most studio software charges by student count, so your bill climbs every time you grow. Ida OS is one flat price.

Your docs, answered by AI

Upload tournament packets, FAQs, and training videos once. Ida answers parents' questions from them — day or night, without you.

A portal parents actually use

Families log in on web or mobile to pay tuition, manage their card, check the schedule, and read documents — so the questions that used to be your texts become things they do themselves.

Simple on purpose

Owners who tried big-box software found it took longer to learn than the problems it solved. Ida OS works the first time you open it — for you, your co-owners, and the parents you invite in.

Why Ida OS exists

Built by a World Champion who got tired of cheque runs.

Ida OS came out of the Gott-Hughton Irish Dance Academy in Calgary — a championship-winning studio whose back office was post-dated cheques, e-transfers, and WhatsApp threads. We built the system we needed, then turned it into a product for every independent studio fighting the same admin.

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Gott-Hughton dancer competing at the World Championships

Simple pricing

One flat price. No per-student fees.

Most studio software charges by student count, so the bill climbs every time you grow. Ida OS is one flat price for unlimited students, multiple studios, and multiple owners — and it replaces the tools you already pay for separately.

Unlimited students and families

Multiple studios and owners included

Replaces standalone invoicing (~$250/yr alone)

Cancel anytime — your data is yours

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