The people marking your work
Forty-one mentors, all of them still doing the job
Cadence does not employ full-time instructors. Every mentor holds a working role on weekdays and takes at most two cohorts a term, which is what keeps the feedback specific.
Noor Haddad
Design
Principal designer, Kestrel Health
Runs the motion and interaction practice for a clinical product used in 400 hospitals. Wrote the easing set that Motion for Interfaces is built around.
12 years in the work
Tobias Lindgren
Engineering
Staff engineer, Fathom Logistics
Spent four years moving a 600,000-line JavaScript codebase to strict TypeScript without a rewrite. Teaches the parts that went badly as well as the parts that worked.
14 years in the work
Amara Okonjo
Data
Head of analytics, Brightline Retail
Built a warehouse for a 90-store chain with a team of two. Reads every experiment write-out her learners submit and marks the ones that overclaim.
11 years in the work
Dana Reyes-Whitlock
Product
Group product manager, Orbit Payments
Has killed three of her own features after discovery said so. Leads the discovery course and the Friday clinic where learners bring a decision they are stuck on.
13 years in the work
Ivan Petrescu
Engineering
Accessibility lead, Public Digital Service
Audits government services against WCAG AA for a living. Every exercise in The Accessible Front End is marked with a screen reader, not a linter.
9 years in the work
Mei-Lin Foster
Design
Content design director, Halcyon Bank
Rewrote a retail bank onboarding flow and cut its abandonment by a third. Marks writing line by line, which is slower and the reason people rate it highest.
10 years in the work
Why Cadence
What a capped cohort actually buys
We could run groups of two hundred and the recordings would be identical. These are the four things that would stop being true.
Finish what they start
Across every cohort run in 2025, counted at the final submission rather than at the last login.
Get feedback inside 48 hours
Mentors mark on a rota, and a piece of work that waits longer than two days is escalated to the track lead.
Take a second course
Measured within a year of finishing the first one. It is the number we watch most closely.
A mentor who knows your work
By week three your mentor can name the thing you keep doing. That is the difference between feedback and marking, and it does not survive a group of two hundred.
Finishing, not enrolling
87% of people who start a Cadence cohort finish it, counted at final submission. The industry figure for self-paced video courses sits closer to one in ten.
An honest fit conversation
Advisors talk about half a dozen people a week out of a course. A refund six weeks later costs everyone more than a straight answer on the phone.
A certificate with work attached
Every certificate links to the artefact you defended. A hiring manager can read the spec, the profile or the write-out instead of trusting a badge.