Cascade was born from the concrete needs of transitional urbanism players.
Plateau Urbain
A transitional urbanism cooperative that turns vacant buildings into affordable workspaces, with emergency housing solutions when possible.
Yes We Camp
A collective that creates and runs welcoming transitional venues, blending culture, inclusion, and experimentation.
Communa
A Brussels-based nonprofit association that develops collective, activist occupations to turn vacant buildings into genuine urban commons.
A commission that follows usage, not software that captures value.
Proportional to actual usage
Cascade takes a small share of the revenue managed through the platform — never a fixed subscription disconnected from a venue's actual activity.
Capped, never extractive
Beyond a certain threshold, the rate decreases: the goal is the federation's financial balance, not profit maximization.
Funded by its members
Cascade grows through the contributions of the organizations that use and govern it, in keeping with the Coopyleft license.
Open code, under a Coopyleft license.
cascade-coop / cascade
Digital infrastructure for the collective management of resources — contracts, contributions, invoicing, payments.
They're testing Cascade with us
Communa
When you have too much work, you end up saying no to certain space bookings just because you don't have time to deal with the paperwork. With Cascade, we can get the contract, signature, and invoicing all moving from a single subscription.
Plateau Urbain
As soon as an occupant changes space or rate, that information has to ripple everywhere. With Cascade, we make the change once and it carries through to the contract, the amendments, and the invoicing.
Yes We Camp
We built a lot of our tools with spreadsheets. It works, but as soon as you want to connect occupancy, contracts, and invoicing, it gets complicated. With Cascade, everything is connected around a single subscription.