CANOPY for the school

CANOPY for the music school.

The whole school runs on it: faculty with their own logins, tuition across teachers, recital seasons coordinated in one place, the trial-lesson pipeline that catches every inquiry. Your school’s name on the sign-in screen. Your data in the school’s own Google Workspace.

A small brick music school at golden hour. Tall arched windows lit warm from within, ivy at the corner, autumn leaves on the path, a brass plaque by the wooden front door.

Sunday, 9 PM.

You opened the school because you love teaching music. The admin took the nights.

Three families behind, and you don’t know which three.

Tuition is past due somewhere across the roster. You can’t tell who without messaging eight teachers on a Sunday night to ask each one if their families are caught up.

A new piano teacher starts Tuesday morning.

The welcome packet hasn’t been updated since the last hire, two years ago. The studio policies, the first-week schedule, the parent introduction letter are still only in your head.

Five weeks until Spring Recital. No running order.

Eight teachers are contributing performers. Nobody has drafted the program. Two students are waiting on sheet music that’s on backorder, and you don’t have the list of which two.

what you can do with one tap

What one tap does.

Friday, 4:48 PM

A photo of the stack becomes 28 grades.

A pile of graded papers on your desk. The weekend is right there. You snap a photo, tap Record grades, and the 28 marks land in the gradebook. The marked-up copies save to each student’s folder. The parents who asked for a heads-up get one in your voice. Close the laptop.

3:58, two minutes to class

You mark the one who isn’t there. The room is logged.

You’re across the room signing a permission slip. One tap on the student who isn’t there. Or you tell your assistant “everyone but Bobby showed up.” Today’s attendance is in. Bobby’s family gets the auto-draft note in your voice.

Walk-in, Tuesday afternoon

Their welcome packet is ready before they leave.

A new family at the door, here to see the place. You tap Welcome packet. A branded packet with their name, your policies, and your rates lands in their email and in their Drive folder under a minute later. They sign and send it back the same evening.

what’s inside

Twelve tools every CANOPY ships with, plus four for a music school with faculty.

What every CANOPY school gets

  • Students and families
  • Schedule on shared Google Calendars
  • Parent and family communications
  • Documents (welcome packets, invoices, programs)
  • Tuition: invoices across families, balances, overdue
  • Lesson attendance and cancellations
  • Progress: practice scores per student, lesson ratings
  • Lessons: sessions, repertoire library, practice log
  • Progress reports and school transcripts
  • Tasks and reminders for the faculty
  • School knowledge base (policies, calendar, contacts)
  • School branding, plus Cadence as the school’s assistant

The four built for music schools

  • Faculty rosters with revenue split per teacher
  • Recital seasons: rosters, program order, fee tracking
  • Method-book and sheet-music tracking with auto-billing
  • Trial-lesson inquiries through a six-stage pipeline

Pro turns these four on by default. Add or drop any of them from the settings tab whenever you want. The app updates in the background. No rebuild, no migration.

what your faculty actually opens

The school’s home screen, the morning before lessons.

The faculty digest Cadence drafted on Sunday night, the day’s lessons across every teacher, the three things that need a director’s eye, ranked. That’s the screen.

The Resonance Music School home on a phone. The school mark centered, a warm greeting, today’s lessons and a single line for the faculty digest.

It opens to the eight things you care about, ranked.

The home screen is the school’s name, the faculty digest you sent Sunday night, the day’s lessons across every teacher, and the families with a balance that need a call. The data is one tap down when you want it. The school doesn’t feel like triage anymore.

  • The school’s name on every parent-facing screen, your colors throughout
  • Cadence in a side tab. Open her when you need her, ignore her when you don’t.
  • Faculty, families, recitals, inquiries: each one menu away
Optional AI

Cadence for the school, if you want her.

Cadence drafts the faculty digest you send on Sunday night. She writes the welcome packet for the piano teacher who starts on Tuesday. She drafts the trial-lesson confirmation and the what-to-bring document while you’re teaching the 4:00. You read, change a sentence if you want, send.

Switch her off in settings and the school runs the same. Faculty rosters, tuition, attendance, lesson notes, every core module keeps working. AI is one tab in this app, never a dependency.

She helps the days you want help. The other days, the app already does the work.

A music director’s desk overhead. A violin case half-open, sheet music with handwritten notation, a small coffee cup, a metronome, marking pencils.

a week at Resonance

Three moments from a real school week.

A music school faculty lounge. An upright piano against the wall, two plum reading chairs, a wall calendar with rehearsal slots blocked off, warm light through a tall window.

Monday, 9:14 AM

Every teacher walks in already briefed.

The faculty digest went out at 8 PM Sunday. The week’s schedule, the two new students who started this week, the parent who wants a meeting with Mrs. Park. Every teacher opened it on their phone over coffee. Mondays start with teaching, not triage.

Wednesday, 2:42 PM

A trial inquiry lands while you’re teaching the 2:30.

The inquiry form on the website fires. The slot enters the pipeline at stage one. The parent gets the confirmation Cadence drafted, with the what-to-bring attached. Your phone shows a tile that reads “new inquiry: piano, age 9, Saturday morning.” You read it after the lesson, not during.

A hallway in a music school with three open doorways. A grand piano in one room, a circle of chairs in another, a cello in the third.
An empty recital hall set for performance. Rows of chairs facing a grand piano on a low stage, sheet music open on the music desk, warm stage lights.

Friday, 6:45 PM

The recital was already programmed Tuesday.

Eight teachers’ students performing tonight. The running order came from every teacher’s student list, ordered by piece length. Cadence drafted the program copy from the repertoire tab. You exported the PDF on Tuesday, fixed one entry, sent it to families Wednesday. Tonight you just listen.

how to get yours

You’re looking at the school’s demo on this page.

No sales call before you can see it. No demo schedule. The faculty digest, the trial pipeline, the recital program are all on this page already.

Look

You’ve been doing it since you scrolled in.

The home screen, the Monday faculty digest, the Wednesday inquiry tile, the Friday recital. That’s the actual app. Scroll back to anything you want a second look at.

Buy

Checkout takes about two minutes.

Drop in the school’s name, your billing email, your card. Stripe handles the payment. Pro locks in. Cancel any time in month one.

Make it the school’s

Set it up in about ten minutes.

Your app is already at your subdomain. The setup wizard walks you through picking the brand colors. About ten minutes from your end.

The app scales without scaling up. A three-teacher studio and a twelve-teacher school with admin staff run the same app, with more rows in the same tabs. Never a rebuild.

pricing

One price for the music school.

Pro turns on every module a music school needs. Unlimited teachers, unlimited students. No per-seat counting, no enterprise call.

$699/mo · Pro

or $6,999 once to own.

Faculty rosters with revenue splits per teacher. Full recital season management. The six-stage trial-lesson pipeline. Method books and sheet music with auto-billing. Cadence on every faculty member’s side tab.

Start the school’s CANOPY

Includes

  • The 12 core modules and Cadence
  • Faculty rosters with per-teacher revenue splits
  • Recital season management: rosters, programs, fees
  • Sheet music and method-book tracking, auto-billed
  • Trial-lesson pipeline through six stages
  • Parent and student portals, magic-link sign-in
  • Unlimited teachers, unlimited students

Voices

What directors have said back.

Eight teachers, one app. I stopped texting each one for an update.

a music school director

The welcome packet writes itself for every new hire. I haven’t redone it in eight months.

a conservatory director

Spring Recital ran without three weeks of nightly emails. That’s the bar.

a music school director

questions

What directors ask before they buy.

Will the app look like my school, or like CANOPY?

Your school’s name on the sign-in screen, your colors on the buttons, Cadence renamed to whatever you call your assistant. The parent who opens the family portal to see Olivia’s practice score sees your school. CANOPY is the rails. It doesn’t show.

How does it handle multiple teachers?

Each faculty member signs in with magic-link (one tap on their phone). They see the students they teach, their schedule on their own Google Calendar, their roster, their notes. You see everything: their notes, their tuition, the families they work with, the per-teacher revenue split.

My teachers track repertoire and practice scores, not letter grades. Does the app fit that?

Yes, that’s how it’s built. Every student carries a current piece list and practice notes. Progress is what the teacher wrote after a lesson, with a 1–10 practice score, not a percentage on a quiz. Recitals run on a season cycle, the way a music school actually works.

How does the trial-lesson inquiry pipeline work?

A parent fills out the inquiry form on the school’s website (or you log a phone call). The slot enters the pipeline at stage one. Cadence drafts the confirmation, the what-to-bring, and the follow-up after the trial. You read each one, change a line, send. The pipeline shows where every inquiry sits: Inquiry, Questions Answered, Packet Sent, Trial Booked, Enrolled, Declined.

Where does the school’s data actually live?

In the school’s own Google Workspace. Student profiles are Google Sheets in your Drive. Faculty records are Sheets in your Drive. Recital programs are PDFs in folders you own. If you ever leave CANOPY, every spreadsheet stays in your account. We never see it. We never sell it. Anthropic does not train Claude on it.

Do I have to use the AI?

No. Cadence is one button in the corner. Open her when you want help on the faculty digest, close her when you don’t. The school runs the same with her off: faculty rosters, scheduling, tuition, attendance, all of it.

Can I add modules later?

Open the settings tab, tick the module you want. The app updates in a few minutes. Same for turning one off. No support ticket, no rebuild, no data migration.

Is there a free trial?

No. There’s a free demo (Willowbrook). It runs the actual app with sample data. Use it as long as you need before you decide.

From a teacher, for music schools

Run the school on what you wish you’d had.