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A more beautiful
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Built around independent stylists · HSR Layout, Bengaluru

Your Talent.
Your Terms.

KANSO is a new kind of salon for independent stylists — beautiful spaces, best-in-class infrastructure, and the freedom to build your business, your way.

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The film

Thirty seconds inside the room.

The room at HSR, before the doors open. Daylight through the glass, pale oak and terrazzo, and the quiet that everything else here is built around.

KANSO HSR LayoutBefore the doors open · 0:30

Meet KANSO

A new kind of salon for a new generation of stylists.

KANSO combines the freedom of independence with the beauty, professionalism and support of a modern salon. Designed by stylists, for stylists.

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A KANSO stylist cutting at her station in daylight

Why KANSO

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

We stripped out everything that gets between a stylist and their client, and invested the difference in the things that actually matter.

Independence

Be your own boss, set your schedule, keep your clients.

Higher earning potential

More of what you earn stays with you, month after month.

Elevated image

A premium, design-led environment that attracts the clients you want.

Best-in-class infrastructure

Beautiful spaces, professional tools and amenities — all taken care of.

A KANSO stylist at the window before opening

The neighbourhood

Why HSR, and why first.

Dense, young, professional, and underserved at the top of the market. Most of the good salons in Bengaluru are twenty-five minutes away in traffic — which for a client on a Tuesday evening may as well be an hour.

A KANSO stylist laying out her tools at the station

What you get on day one

A room that is already finished.

Your station and equipment, the full software stack, professional product and back bar, laundry, the colour bar, marketing and your public profile, and monthly education. You bring your hands and your book.

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What comes with the chair

Independence, without being on your own.

Working for yourself usually means giving up everything a good employer provides. We did not think that trade was necessary, so we kept the protections and handed back the control.

Two KANSO stylists working at neighbouring stations

Health cover, from your first day

Medical cover for you and your family, paid by KANSO and live from day one.

You and your family

Every rupee, visible

A live ledger of every booking, payout and deduction, as it happens.

Settled on a fixed day

Training that travels

Placements with partner salons in Tokyo, London and Milan. Flights on us.

By invitation, annually

An induction worth the name

Two weeks before opening, led by senior names from the industry.

Before you take a single client

A master class every month

One paid day a month with someone who has shaped the craft.

Twelve a year, included

Covered for the work itself

Professional indemnity and public liability at your chair, held by KANSO.

Held by the house

The KANSO card

One tap. Your whole day.

Every founding stylist receives a KANSO card, made for them. It is the quiet piece of technology that keeps the room running without anyone reaching for a screen.

  • Tap in at your stationYour chair, your day and your first client open the moment you arrive.
  • Tap to shareA client touches their phone to your card and lands on your booking page. No app, no typing.
  • Tap to settleClose an appointment and it lands on your earnings ledger the same second.
  • Yours, and only yoursLose it and it is switched off from your app in one tap.

Support & infrastructure

More than a chair.
A real foundation.

We take care of the operational details, so you can focus on what you do best — your clients.

A KANSO educator guiding a stylist at the long oak table

Beautiful, fully equipped spaces

Booking & payment systems

On-site amenities — laundry, colour bar, refreshments

Marketing support to help you grow

A community of like-minded professionals

12
Chairs, generously spaced
Nov '26
HSR Layout opens
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Agreement. No employment contract
100%
Of your client book stays yours

Your potential

See what you could earn at KANSO.

Choose a membership, then move the sliders. Everything updates as you go.

Monthly membership ₹0 up to 70 bookings ₹500 for each booking above 70, never more than ₹25,000 a month. The long-term path
4-day membership ₹6,000 a month Four salon days a month, booked in advance. ₹1,500 a day. A way to begin, about a day a week
8-day membership ₹10,000 a month Eight salon days a month, booked in advance. ₹1,250 a day. A way to begin, about two days a week

Your month

₹

Optional. Average product ₹1,200, you keep 15%.

The slider starts at a practical figure for this membership. Move it freely.

What you take home

Service earnings 50% of ₹1,44,000 billed ₹72,000
Product earnings 15% of products sold ₹0
Member fee ₹0
Earnings after member fee ₹72,000

Illustrative estimates only. Actual bookings, revenue and earnings depend on your availability, services, pricing, clients, demand, product sales and the membership you choose.

How the monthly fee grows Monthly membership only

Bookings a monthMember fee
70 or fewer₹0
80₹5,000
90₹10,000
100₹15,000
110₹20,000
120 or more₹25,000

₹500 for every booking above 70, up to ₹25,000.

Drag across the chart to set the bookings slider.

The three paths, at target

MembershipDaysBookingsRevenueYour 50%FeeAfter fee
Monthly24120₹2,88,000₹1,44,000₹25,000₹1,19,000
4-day420₹48,000₹24,000₹6,000₹18,000
8-day840₹96,000₹48,000₹10,000₹38,000

Five bookings a salon day, ₹2,400 average order value, no product commission. These targets are separate from where the slider starts.

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Stylist stories

Eight chairs. Eight stories.

Our founding stylists are being chosen now. As each one starts, their story goes here, in their own words. These are the four questions we are asking them.

Placeholder portrait of a KANSO founding stylist
Cutting

Why I left a commission chair

Interview coming
Placeholder portrait of a KANSO founding stylist
Colour

What I do differently with colour

Interview coming
Placeholder portrait of a KANSO founding stylist
Bridal and events

How I built my book

Interview coming
Placeholder portrait of a KANSO founding stylist
Curls and texture

What my first month here felt like

Interview coming
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About you

What are you looking for in your next chapter?

Every stylist's journey is different. Tell us what matters most to you, and we will tell you honestly whether KANSO is the right next chapter.

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A KANSO stylist beside his chair, looking out to the street

Questions

The things stylists actually ask.

If your question is not here, ask it directly. We would rather have the conversation.

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