Getting started

On kadrenta.com, press Get started. The plan cards open: pick Free, Studio or Pro. On the next page, fill in your name, your email address and a password of at least ten characters, then press Create account. You can also sign up with Google or Discord. A confirmation link lands in your inbox; open it and you are signed in.

Picked a paid plan? After naming your studio, the button reads Continue to payment, and you finish on a secure payment page.

Some sign-ups are read by a person before the account opens. When yours is, you see Your request is with us, and you hear back at the address you signed up with as soon as you are let in. There is nothing more to do in the meantime.

If somebody invited you to their studio, you skip this: an invitation is the yes.

A studio is your workspace. Your projects, team and clients live inside it, and nobody outside it sees any of that.

The first time you sign in without an invitation waiting, you land on Name your studio. Type a name, tick the box agreeing to the data processing agreement (it explains what Kadrenta does with the personal data your studio puts in; it opens in a new tab so nothing you typed is lost), and press Create studio. You are its owner, on the studio's first seat, and your studio's standard task lists are already filled with a starter set.

If an invitation to somebody else's studio is waiting for you, it shows above the form. Joining that studio and starting your own are two different things, so Kadrenta asks Start your own studio? before you do the second while an invitation is open.

You can rename your studio at any time.

A new studio opens with a welcome card: Show me around starts a short tour of the menu, and I'll find my own way skips it. Two quick questions follow, Which three tools pull at you most? and Alone, small team, or studio?. Your answers put those tools first on your dashboard; everything else stays one click away, and Change redoes it later.

A Get started list on the dashboard walks you through the first steps: Set up your studio, Take a quick look around, Start your first project, Put a version up for review, Put something on a canvas, and Bring someone in. Hide list puts it away. You can always reopen it, or the tour, from the menu under your name.

A colleague who joins an existing studio skips the questions and lands straight in the studio as it is set up.

The top bar is the same on every page:

• The logo takes you home to the dashboard.
• The page names: Dashboard, Sales, Contacts, Canvas, Review, Files, Transfers. A section your studio has switched off is not shown. On a narrow screen they fold into a menu button.
• Inbox opens your notifications; see Staying informed.
• Search finds your projects, shots (by number or code) and tasks by name, with results as you type. Companies, contacts and deals have their own search on the Sales page.
• New starts something from wherever you are: a task, a project, a canvas, a deal, a company, a contact or a transfer.
• Your name, at the far right, opens a menu: Profile and Settings, Admin Console (for owners and admins), Handbook, the tour or the get-started list, and Sign out. It also shows how much of your studio's storage is in use.

The dashboard (/app) is your overview. It opens with counters for what needs your attention, and a Needs attention today strip for deals and companies whose next step is due. Below that come blocks: Projects, General Tasks, My Project Tasks, Reviews waiting on you, and Sales if your studio uses it.

Use Blocks on this page to switch blocks on or off, and drag them (or use the arrows) to put them in the order you want. That order is yours alone; colleagues arrange their own.

Profile and Settings is one page in five tabs:

• Site Settings: how Kadrenta behaves for you, such as Warn me about late work in the top bar (off by default) and Fewer effects. Nobody else sees or changes these.
• Profile: your photo and what you do, as colleagues see you.
• Notifications: where each kind of message reaches you; see Staying informed.
• Connections: you, reachable elsewhere: your Discord account, a calendar feed, and your AI assistant (see The Claude connection).
• Security: your password, two-step sign-in, and Delete your account.

Reporting a problem is built in. Three ways open the same small window:

• Alt + right-click on whatever looks wrong. The window asks What is wrong here? without you leaving the screen.
• On a phone or tablet, press and hold on the thing you mean for about half a second.
• Report something on your own reporting page, /app/debug, for when it is not one thing you can point at.

Type what you saw: the first line becomes the title, the rest the body. Press Enter to send (Shift+Enter for a new line). Add a screenshot by pasting it (Ctrl+V) or dropping it in. Before you send, the window shows exactly what it picked up about the page (which pattern, which section, which page) and nothing else travels along: no page content, no field values.

Your reports wait on /app/debug, each with a status: Open → With Claude → Handled, or Left as is when it was looked at and nothing needed to change. You get a notification when yours is handled.

A studio owner sees every report the team filed on that page, with filters, a Push the batch button, and Environment checks (Send a test mail, Check the file storage). A team member sees their own reports only.

You can also always write to Kadrenta by mail; the address is in the footer of the help page, and it reaches a person.