For Offices & Coworking
Focus-friendly, fully licensed background music for your office. No PRO fees. No contracts. Just the right energy, from first coffee to end of day.
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The open office problem
In a quiet office, every keyboard click is a small interruption. Every phone call carries across the room. Every cough, every chair squeak, every conversation three desks over — your brain catalogs each one. It never stops.
Researchers at the University of Chicago found that moderate ambient sound — around 70 decibels, roughly the level of a busy coffee shop — actually improves creative thinking. Not by adding stimulation, but by creating just enough consistent texture to free the mind from tracking every small disruption.
That's the paradox. Complete silence makes the brain hypervigilant. Random noise overwhelms it. Background music sits in the middle — a steady, intentional layer that gives the auditory system something to settle into.
But there's a catch. The wrong music is worse than no music at all. Lyrics compete with language processing. Unpredictable tempo breaks concentration. Familiar tracks trigger memory instead of focus. The music that helps work happen is specific. Puana is built around exactly that.
Designed for the workday
An office isn't one mood all day. Morning arrivals feel different from deep-work hours. Lunch feels different from the afternoon push. Puana lets you schedule different sounds for every part of the day — in 15-minute blocks, with automatic transitions. Set it once. It runs itself.
Light acoustic, warm instrumentals. People settle in without being rushed. A gentle warm-up for the day.
Ambient textures, minimal electronics. No lyrics, no surprises. The kind of sound that disappears into concentration.
Indie, bossa nova, something with life. The room loosens up. Conversations happen. Energy resets.
Beat-driven but controlled. Lo-fi, downtempo grooves. Enough pulse to carry through the post-lunch dip.
Mellow jazz, soft electronic. The pace eases. People wrap up projects without the room feeling dead.
Events, team drinks, late workers. Something social — funk, soul, a little more personality in the room.
From a small-town cafe to your office
“The regulars who stayed for hours — the writers, the remote workers, the people who came back every single day — they always said the same thing. It's the music.”
Cafe Meria is a small place in Charlevoix, Michigan. Lake town. Seasonal. Not the kind of spot that shows up on tech blogs. But something kept happening there that Jesse Meria couldn't ignore.
People would come in for a coffee and stay for four hours. Laptops open. Headphones off. Working. Not because the Wi-Fi was fast — it was fine, nothing special. Not because of the seating. They stayed because the room felt right. The music held a space that let them think.
When Jesse asked what kept them coming back, nobody said “the playlist.” They said the atmosphere. The feeling. The fact that they could concentrate here in a way they couldn't at home or at their own office.
That was the start of Puana — the idea that the right background music doesn't just fill silence. It shapes how people work. And every office deserves that.
Jesse Meria
Founder, Puana · Owner, Cafe Meria · Charlevoix, MI
What you get
Program different genres and energy levels for every part of the workday. 15-minute blocks. Automatic transitions.
One toggle. Every track, every genre, every hour — family-friendly and workplace-appropriate. No surprises.
Set volume levels per time block. Morning quieter, lunch livelier, afternoon steady. No one touches the dial.
Each office, floor, or coworking location gets its own schedule and settings. One dashboard for all of them.
Staff gets play and pause. Office managers get scheduling and settings. No shared passwords, no accidental changes.
Ambient, jazz, lo-fi, electronic, acoustic, indie. Every track composed for real spaces — not stock music libraries.
No BMI. No ASCAP. No SESAC. Download your license certificate anytime. Show it to any auditor, landlord, or building manager.
See what plays, when, and how long. Understand which genres keep your team in flow and which don't.
The math
Most offices play personal streaming accounts through a Bluetooth speaker and hope nobody notices. But 83% of businesses are doing exactly this — and the fine for copyright infringement is up to $30,000 per track.
The traditional route? A business music service ($25–30/mo) plus BMI ($250-500/year) plus ASCAP ($220-500/year) plus SESAC ($200-400/year). Total: $470-1,400+/year per year. For music you can't even choose.
Music service + BMI + ASCAP + SESAC
Everything included. No PRO fees.
Common questions
Yes. Puana is licensed for any commercial space — private offices, coworking spaces, shared studios, conference rooms. Each location gets its own schedule, volume settings, and team access. One subscription per location.
Puana works both ways. Play through a shared speaker system for the whole office, or let individual team members stream through headphones at their desks. The business subscription covers the space — how people listen is up to them.
Every track on Puana is original music with full commercial rights included in your subscription. No BMI, ASCAP, or SESAC fees. No third-party royalties. Your subscription covers everything. Download a license certificate from your dashboard anytime.
The opposite. Research shows that moderate background sound — around 70 dB — enhances creative thinking and helps mask distracting office noise. Puana's office-friendly tracks are composed to sit below conversation, not compete with it. No lyrics during focus hours, no sudden volume changes, no jarring transitions.
Yes. Multi-location support means each floor, wing, or office can run its own schedule with its own genres and energy levels. Manage them all from one dashboard.
Personal streaming services are licensed for personal use only. Playing them in a commercial space is copyright infringement — businesses have been fined up to $30,000 per track. Puana is built for commercial use, with a license that covers your business from day one.
Yes. Staff members get play and pause controls. Managers get scheduling, genre selection, and settings. Each person gets their own access level — no shared passwords, no accidental schedule changes.
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