Kalinklo runs one operations engine with vocabulary and service-type suggestions tuned to your kind of organization. You pick your type when you create the workspace, and the setup page shows a getting-started card matched to it. Here is what setup looks like for each type — and, honestly, what is usable today, what is ready to wire, and what still needs product or implementation approval.
Orchestra / symphony
- Import first: your roster (musicians + sections) from Personnel → Import — CSV or paste.
- Invite first: your orchestra / personnel manager and section principals; add the rest of the roster after.
- Productions & services: a production is a program or concert cycle; its services are the rehearsals and performances members are called to.
- Fully supported — this is the engine's home ground.
Opera company
- Import first: your company (principals, chorus, orchestra) from Personnel → Import.
- Invite first: your music, production, and chorus staff.
- Productions & services: a production is an opera; its services are music rehearsals, staging calls, chorus calls, piano tech, sitzprobe, dress, and performances — service-type suggestions are opera-specific.
- Guided pilot: cast / cover persistence is ready to wire, but customer-facing cast / cover screens, voice-type fields, and rehearsal reports are not enabled yet. Use documents and roles meanwhile.
Festival
- Import first: your festival roster and guest artists.
- Invite first: artistic and production staff, then the performing roster.
- Productions & services: a production is a festival program or event; its services can be rehearsals, performances, masterclasses, artist talks, tech rehearsals, travel days, opening events, workshops, panels, jury sessions, or outreach events.
- Roadmap — not built yet: application / audition intake, and housing / travel-itinerary assignment. Track those outside Kalinklo for now.
Conservatory
- Import first: your students and ensembles / sections.
- Invite first: faculty and ensemble directors.
- Productions & services: a production is a concert, recital, or assessment cycle; its services can be lessons, studio classes, seminars, ensemble rehearsals, coachings, recitals, juries, auditions, performances, and concerts.
- Academic vocabulary and service-type hints are wired; union / CBA payroll advisory is off by default.
- Roadmap — not built yet: jury / audition intake, deep room-scheduling, and multiple concurrent named ensembles under one account (needs a schema addition). Run one ensemble per workspace for now.
School / youth music program
- Import first: your students and sections.
- Invite first: your directors and section coaches.
- Productions & services: a production is a concert, recital, or assessment cycle; its services can be rehearsals, sectionals, lessons, studio classes, seminars, recitals, auditions, performances, concerts, assemblies, and festival / competition events.
- Academic vocabulary and service-type hints are wired; union / CBA payroll advisory is off by default.
- Roadmap — not built yet: guardian / minor consent workflows, tuition, and student-information-system sync.
Chamber ensemble
- Import first: your players.
- Invite first: your ensemble manager.
- Productions & services: a production is a program or tour; its services are rehearsals, concerts, recordings, and run-outs.
- Runs fully on the operations engine with ensemble vocabulary; sections and the seating chart are off by default (small ensemble).
Ballet company
- Import first: your dancers, pit, stage management, production staff, and company management.
- Invite first: artistic, ballet master, stage management, production, and company management staff.
- Productions & services: a production is a ballet or repertory program; its services can be class, studio rehearsal, stage rehearsal, tech, dress, performance, understudy, put-in, and tour dates.
- Guided pilot: casting / company-call persistence is ready to wire, but alternate-cast screens, injury / availability layers, and movement-specific calls are not enabled yet.
Dance company
- Import first: your dancers, collaborators, production staff, and touring contacts.
- Invite first: artistic, rehearsal, production, and company management staff.
- Productions & services: a production is a dance work, program, residency, or tour; its services can be class, rehearsal, stage rehearsal, tech, dress, performance, workshop, residency, and tour dates.
- Guided pilot: casting / rehearsal-group persistence is ready to wire, but choreographic casting screens, movement-specific calls, injury / availability, and company-call automation are not enabled yet.
Theater / Broadway production
- Import first: company, pit, crew, stage management, and production contacts.
- Invite first: stage management, general/company management, music, production, and finance staff.
- Productions & services: a production is a show or run; its services can be rehearsals, music calls, company calls, put-ins, understudy rehearsals, tech, dress, previews, performances, load-in, and load-out.
- Guided pilot: call-sheet / show-report persistence is ready to wire, but run-of-show screens, swing / understudy tracking, and cue-level stage-management workflows are not enabled yet.
Church / worship music
- Import first: choir members, organists, cantors, staff singers, and music staff.
- Invite first: director of music, choir manager, organist, section leaders, and administrators.
- Productions & services: a production is a service cycle, term, or special liturgical period; its services can be rehearsals, services, evensong, mass, cantor calls, organ rehearsals, weddings, funerals, and feast-day services.
- Guided pilot — not built yet: liturgical calendar auto-generation, guardian/minor safeguarding, and section-scoped leader views.
Military band
- Import first: band roster, sections, rank/role notes, operations staff, and protocol contacts.
- Invite first: band leadership, operations, personnel, library, logistics, and finance staff.
- Productions & services: a production is a concert, ceremony, protocol event, or tour; its services can be rehearsals, ceremonies, parades, concerts, memorial services, protocol events, travel days, and recordings.
- Guided pilot — not built yet: rank-aware hierarchy, chain-of-command approvals, duty/pay-grade rules, and military-specific compliance.
Film / TV / game scoring
- Import first: session pool, contractor contacts, copyists, orchestrators, and production contacts.
- Invite first: contractor, session coordinator, copyist/orchestrator, finance, and production staff.
- Productions & services: a production is a scoring project or session block; its services can be spotting sessions, recording sessions, overdubs, orchestration reviews, copyist deadlines, mix reviews, cue reviews, deliveries, and pickup sessions.
- Demand-pulled pilot: session / cue / deliverable persistence is ready to wire, but takes, rights / residuals, studio booking, session payroll, and customer-facing scoring workflows require a paying design partner and legal review. Do not claim this as a proven scoring-stage system.
Don't see your type?
If your exact model is not listed, choose the closest type or Other for the plain operations engine. Kalinklo adds verticals by configuration plus named native primitives, not forks.
Police, civic, and community bands: choose Other — the plain, engine-neutral operations setup. Do not pick Military band: that vertical carries military-specific framing (rank hierarchy, chain-of-command) that does not fit a civilian ensemble, and its guided pilot is not built yet.
Where to next
- [Import your roster](/help/roster-import)
- [Signing in](/help/signing-in) — including the access-code path when email isn't set up
- [Getting started](/help/getting-started)