Quickstart

Create your workspace, run the onboarding wizard, and get a project with a working gate in about ten minutes.

This is the shortest path from nothing to a project that behaves like a real phase-gate project. Everything here works on the free plan.

Create your account

Go to cadence.alen.world/signup and sign up with an email address and password, or with Google.

Signing up creates two things at once: your user account, and the team workspace that owns everything you build. You are its first admin.

If a colleague has already created the workspace, do not sign up — wait for their invite email instead, and follow the link in it. Signing up separately creates a second, empty workspace with no way to merge the two.

Run the onboarding wizard

New accounts land in a four-step wizard: Welcome, About you, Template, Project.

The About you step asks what kind of work you run — new product development, manufacturing and production, supply chain and logistics, marketing and trade, regulatory and compliance, or something else — and how big your team is. It uses those answers to suggest a starting template.

You can skip the wizard at any point, and replay it later from the user menu at the bottom of the sidebar.

Start from a template

The wizard offers a template so your first project already has phases, tasks and gate criteria in it. Pick the closest one; it is faster to delete a phase than to invent five.

You can also start blank, or generate a template from a plain-English description of your process. See using templates.

Name the project and create it

Give the project a name, a description, a start date and a deadline. The description is worth writing properly — when you create a project from a template, cadence. uses it to rewrite the template's generic task titles and descriptions into something specific to this project.

Create the project. You now have a full phase structure, with the first phase started.

Look at the first gate

Open the first phase from the project sidebar. Below the tasks you will find its gate criteria — the conditions for leaving this phase.

Set one to Passed and add a line of evidence. Notice the Complete phase button at the top of the phase: it shows how many criteria are met, and stays disabled while any of them is still Incomplete. That is the entire mechanism.