Use cases

Concrete walk-throughs.

The same eleven primitives compose into very different products. Here are three worked examples — each tells the story of one operator's workflow end to end, naming the primitives at each step.

Scheduling · Allocation

Golf tee sheet

A pro shop running a daily tee sheet with carts, member tiers, dimensional offers (front nine vs back nine), and tournament exception windows.

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Stays · Folio

Hotel front desk

A boutique hotel running multi-night stays with room types, party check-ins, in-room charges that roll into the folio, and consent-gated guest comms.

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Appointments · Retail

Salon & spa

A salon booking variable-duration services against named stylists, with walk-in queues, modifier-driven add-ons, retail product sales, and gratuity on card.

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Don't see your shape?

Seldon's five Availability kinds (grid, range, queue, open_capacity, external) plus Hardin's catalog and Hober's order tabs cover most service-business shapes. Other shapes in the back of the mind: fitness class drop-ins, equipment rentals, charter fleets, urgent-care queues, classroom scheduling, multi-stage medical visits. Tell us yours.