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Planned Operational engine

Cadence

Calendars, availability, reminders, and recurrence as a shared service — the scheduling layer the work engines deliberately don’t own.

Replaces a calendar library bolted onto every app

In the constellation

Cadence highlighted in the live map — hover or tap any node to explore.

01Why

Why it exists

Calendars, availability, reminders, recurrence — every app that schedules anything needs them, and almost every app bolts on its own half-built version. Time-zone math, DST edge cases, and recurring-event expansion are quietly some of the easiest things to get wrong.

The work engines deliberately stop at the clock: they manage what gets done, not when. That leaves a real gap with nothing in it.

02What it is

What Cadence is

Cadence is the shared time layer. It answers “when is everyone free,” expands recurring events correctly across time zones, and fires reminders at exactly the right moment — so no app has to reinvent the calendar.

It does the clock, not the calling. The engine computes availability and fires timers; deciding what’s the right time and what matters most stays with the app above it.

03Capabilities

What it does

Availability & scheduling

Free-busy and multi-party scheduling computed across calendars, correctly.

Recurrence

Recurring events expanded with full time-zone and DST handling — the part everyone gets wrong.

Reminders & timers

Deterministic reminder firing at a specified time — “fire this at T,” reliably.

Time-reasoning

Answers “when is free,” “when is next,” and “what’s overdue” across people and commitments.

04The cleavage

The line between judgment and machinery

AccelMars draws one hard line through every product: what an AI decides, and what runs deterministically. Cadence sits on the deterministic side.

Deterministic — no AI in the path

Deterministic by design

  • Calendar and availability math
  • Recurrence expansion with time-zone correctness
  • Reminder and timer firing

Cadence does the clock, not the calling. It computes when things can happen and fires events on time; what’s the right time and how to prioritize is the app’s judgment, above the engine.

05Connections

How it connects

Used by

Apps composing Cadence.

Planned

Planned — designed, not yet built. It will power scheduling in Aide, operational timing in Ops, and follow-up reminders across future support apps.

Open-core, like Anchor and Booster — the mechanical engine in the open.