Salons, clinics & appointments
Modelling businesses that sell a person's time: salons, spas, tattoo studios, clinics, photography, tutoring, consulting, pet grooming, driving schools. What moves, the setup, and the trap.
These are service businesses: you sell time and capability, usually a specific person's, sometimes in a room or station. The core moves are a service with a duration, a staff requirement, and policies.
Hair salon
Moves: service (a stylist's time) + retail + material use.
- Each service is a service, within a day, with a duration; it requires a stylist (any qualified or a specific one).
- Colour consumes dye/developer → add a recipe to the service.
- Long-hair surcharge and longer time → a variant with a price difference and a duration override.
- Deposit + no-show fee protect the calendar. Retail products sit alongside.
Nail / beauty studio
Moves: service + retail.
- Treatments are services with durations and staff requirements.
- Add-on treatments (gel, art) are add-ons or variants with duration overrides.
Spa
Moves: service over rooms + retail.
- Treatments are services; each requires a treatment room (resource type, whole-unit) and a therapist.
- A "spa day" combining treatments is a bundle of services.
Tattoo studio
Moves: service (artist time + a station).
- Sessions are services requiring a specific artist and a station resource.
- Design notes and reference images are input fields; a deposit is standard.
Dental / medical clinic
Moves: service (practitioner + room) + retail + consent.
- Appointments are services requiring a practitioner (by role/skill) and a room resource.
- Intake forms and consent are input fields — consent-tagged where fulfilment must be gated.
- Dispensed products are retail.
Physiotherapy / chiropractic
Moves: service (a person + a room), often as packages.
- Sessions are services requiring the practitioner and a room.
- A block of 10 sessions is a bundle or a subscription.
Photography studio
Moves: service (shoot + studio) + access (digital delivery) + retail (prints).
- The shoot is a service requiring a photographer and the studio resource.
- Digital galleries are digital products; prints are retail.
- Shoot details (location, brief) are input fields.
Tutoring / music lessons
Moves: service (a tutor's time), often recurring.
- A lesson is a service requiring a specific tutor (or a skill); online lessons need no room, in-person need a room resource.
- A weekly slot is a recurring booking; a term of lessons is a bundle or subscription.
Consulting / legal / accounting
Moves: service (a professional's time).
- Consultations are services requiring the professional; durations per service type.
- Retainers are subscriptions; fixed-scope work is a one-off service or product.
Pet grooming
Moves: service (groomer + station) + retail.
- Grooms are services requiring a groomer and a grooming station resource; size/breed variants change duration and price.
- Pet details are input fields. Products sit alongside.
Driving school
Moves: service (instructor + vehicle).
- A lesson is a service requiring an instructor and a vehicle resource.
- Course packages are bundles of lessons.
Trap across all of these: if the booking needs both a person and a room/station/vehicle, add both a staff requirement and a resource requirement — both are checked before a slot is offered.
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Cafés, restaurants & food
Modelling businesses that make things to order: coffee shops, pizzerias, bakeries, food trucks, restaurants, breweries, catering. What moves, the setup, and the trap.
Hotels, venues & spaces
Modelling businesses built on physical units: hotels, hostels, coworking, courts, bowling, venues, parking, self-storage. What moves, the setup, and the trap.