Martial arts schools run on things that were never built for them.
Spreadsheets, a Facebook group, a PDF of the curriculum, generic fitness-business software that does not know what a belt is, and somebody’s memory. Each part works. Together they leak.
None of those systems understand rank or lineage. They cannot tell you what a student is eligible to test for, how recently they drilled a technique, or what an instructor needs to know before class starts. So the work falls on people. The same student details get typed into two systems by hand. A parent asks what their child needs for the next belt and somebody goes looking for the binder.
That is not a discipline problem. Most dojos are run by organized, careful people. The systems are the problem, and they are what Konjo replaces — with one that carries the art itself, not just the invoices.
Konjo is the software a martial arts school runs on — belts, curriculum, attendance, testing, memberships — with a member app included.
Who builds it
Konjo is built by Galen Jauss, a martial artist and a computer science student at UC Irvine. He started as a child at a small dojo that chose care over scale. He earned a black belt in Cuong Nhu in high school, and has taught ever since.
He also works the desk at the school where he teaches — leads, invoices, cancellations, pauses — on a stack of QuickBooks, spreadsheets and a paper notebook. Signing up one new student there means copying the same name, age, rank and contact details out of a paper waiver into two different systems, by hand. Konjo started as the fix for one annoyance in that job, then became the curriculum, then the training log, then the teaching tools, then the whole school.
It is built on personal time and funded by a teaching job. There is no venture money behind it and no company above it yet.
Every art keeps its own words.
Konjo is multi-style by design. Cuong Nhu is the launch community, not the product’s ceiling.
Your ranks, your ladder
A style carries its own rank ladder — kyu and dan, geup and poom, stripes, sashes, or something that exists only at your dojo. A student who trains two arts holds a rank in each, on one profile.
Your curriculum, your requirements
Head instructors set what each rank at their school has to show. Konjo does not ship a curriculum and tell you it is the right one.
Your vocabulary
Konjo says dojo, belt, rank, test, kata — the words the art already uses. Where a word belongs to one lineage, the shared parts of the product say rank. Nobody should have to read another style’s terminology to run their own school.
About the launch community
Konjo was first built for Cuong Nhu, a Vietnamese mixed martial art. It is the community the founder grew up in, and the one that would tell him the truth about what was wrong with it. That is the launch community, not the shape of the product. Rank ladders, curriculum and terminology are per style — a taekwondo school and a kung fu school deserve software that understands them too.
Six things this product will not trade away.
The dojo is the authority
Konjo records and verifies. Instructors decide who is ready, what a rank means and what counts as attendance. Software should never be the thing that promotes a student.
Training data should become teaching help
Logs, attendance, curriculum confidence and test requirements are only worth collecting if they come back to an instructor as something useful on the floor.
Community is part of the product
Events, groups, announcements and a feed for your own school are how a dojo holds together between classes. That belongs inside the software, not in a social network that owns your members.
The member app is included
Student software is usually an upsell, and usually a weak portal. Konjo is built around the student and instructor app, and it is in the one price for everyone at your dojo.
No hidden lock-in
One published pricing model, plain Stripe with no markup, no contract, and a full export of your data whenever you want it. Software should keep customers by being useful.
Serious practice, not a game
Streaks and milestones show up on their own. A promotion gets a moment, because a person on the mat gave it to you. No cartoon rewards for showing up, and no guilt when you miss a week.
One person, one price, and a launch quoted up front.
A founder does your launch
Every new school is set up by a person, on video, over its first 90 days. You send your exports, your school gets built, and you approve every section before anyone is invited. That is the same person who writes the software. Konjo calls it Guided Launch.
One published price
One flat monthly price per location with everything in it: no tiers, no per-student fees, and no markup on card processing. There is one other charge: Guided Launch, once, quoted next to that monthly price before you commit. The model is on the pricing page, and both numbers come to you in writing.
Nothing that traps you
No contract and no minimum term. You cancel in the product, and you can export your people, families, memberships, attendance, ranks and payments while you are a customer and for 30 days after.
Where Konjo actually is today
Konjo is new. The app is in the hands of martial artists through TestFlight and on the web. Konjo Studio is built and running. No school runs its entire business on it yet. You will not find customer counts, star ratings or testimonials on this site — inventing them is the first thing that would make the rest of it untrue. What you can do is book a demo and judge the product with your own school in front of you.
Talk to the person who builds it
There is no sales team to get past. Email goes to the founder, and you will hear back.
- Emailgalen@getkonjo.com
- ApplyAlready decided? Apply to bring your dojoThe form opens on studio.getkonjo.com. It asks about your school, takes no payment and creates no account — a person reads it and emails you to plan the launch, price included.
- How your data is handledSecurity and subprocessors
See it with your own school in it.
Book a demo and bring your ranks, a class list and a page of your curriculum. The call is with the person who writes the code, so the answers are the real ones.