Overview
Welcome to the Cascade docs. Cascade is Aftora's multi-service hosting platform: identity (Headwaters), control-plane policy (Fabric), billing (Ledger), tenant panel APIs (Conduit), node runtime (Cascadia), and operator aggregation (Weir).
Private Early Access — Cascade is still in private early access. These docs now distinguish what already exists in the current backend stack from what is still being hardened before wider rollout.
What is Cascade?
Cascade is intended to replace the patchwork of billing panels, game panels, VPS tooling, and per-node scripts that hosting businesses usually operate separately. The target platform is unified, but the current implementation is still maturing:
Headwaters,Fabric,Ledger, andConduitare real backend services in active development.Cascadiaalready runs on customer-controlled hardware with hardware-bound activation and machine-certificate work in progress.Weiris still an operator-facing backend-for-frontend under active hardening, not a finished production console.- The public site and docs are ahead of the final backend integration state.
Current capabilities
| Workload | Description |
|---|---|
| Identity | Headwaters-backed auth, orgs, sessions, invites, MFA, and OIDC/OAuth |
| Control Plane | Fabric tenant lifecycle, entitlements, signed actions, node licensing, and policy bundles |
| Billing | Ledger catalog, subscriptions, checkout, provider webhook handling, and enforcement hooks |
| Tenant APIs | Conduit customer/staff/service APIs for the panel-facing runtime |
| Runtime | Cascadia node daemon, workload execution, policy sync, and machine activation |
| Operator Surface | Weir operator/admin aggregation APIs, still under active hardening |
How to use these docs
- New to Cascade? Start with Quick Start to get oriented.
- Setting up the backend stack for frontend work? Read Backend Stack for Frontend Work.
- Setting up your first node? Head to Installation.
- Curious about the real service graph? Read the Architecture overview and Service Ownership.
- Managing workloads? See Workloads for details on each type.
- Want the honest maturity snapshot? See Platform Status.
Getting help
During private early access, the best way to get help is still your invite channel. The backend stack is not yet advertised as general-availability production software.