# About Us

> Meet the team behind Arketa — former studio owners and instructors building booking, payments, and growth software for 2,000+ fitness and wellness businesses.

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_About Us_

## More than a platform, a partner

Behind every successful fitness and wellness business is a combination of software and industry experience. Arketa was built by people who've owned studios, taught the classes, and closed the books, and it shows in everything we make.

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> — Sweat With Sav

> — Present Practice

> — Solace

> — Craft Pilates

> — In Flow Studio

> — Bodycraft

_By the numbers_

## 500,000+ hours working in studios · 2,000+ studios run on Arketa · $500M+ in studio payments processed

## Meet the team behind Arketa

We don’t just understand your challenges. We've lived them.

- **We've done the job**: started studios, taught the classes, worked the desk, chased the failed payments.
- **We build differently:** features exist because someone here needed them, not because a roadmap said so.
- **We support differently:** the person answering your question has stood exactly where you're standing.

Founded on firsthand experience

Instructors, studio managers, and owners before they joined Arketa. Collectively: a lot of 6am classes and 500,000+ hours in the industry.

Jasmine McCarthy

Maggie Calegari

Rachel Lea Fishman

Abby Purcell

Sam Butts

Scott Bartel

Saylor Troop

The team at Arketa has either worked, owned, or taught at studios and knows the challenges already. So there is that business advisement side, which is very reassuring and settling.

Built for wellness, designed for growth

Everything in one place

Arketa provides everything you need to run a healthy wellness business, all in one place. Our features are built to work together, not just sit together.

Tech that lets your studio shine

We provide a fully branded app and website where your brand takes center stage, not ours.

Built to grow with you

The fitness and wellness industry keeps evolving, and so do we. New features ship constantly, so the platform you choose today is even better tomorrow.

## What running on Arketa feels like

### Save time for what matters

- Waitlists, reminders, and sub requests run themselves, so admin hours turn back into teaching hours.
- The after-dinner admin shift disappears, and your evenings come back.

### Grow whenever you’re ready

- Add teacher trainings, retreats, on-demand video, or retail without adding another tool.
- One location or five, the platform is ready when you are, at your pace.

### Improve every step of the client journey

- Two-click booking, an app with your name on it, and reminders that sound like you.
- And when you need help, a real person who's worked in a studio picks up.

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Let's grow your wellness business together