Cameras · switchers · lights · projectors · video walls — beta open · founding licence on sale

Lights. Media. Cameras.
One merge.

Phantos is a modular, nodal show-control system — a lighting console, media server, and camera/switcher controller that work as one console. Not five products glued together. One system, one truth, on the hardware you already own.

Become a beta tester Buy the founding licence — $299

macOS 26 · Apple Silicon · beta open now, running real shows · founding rate $299 today

MEET PHANTOS — 58 seconds. One tech, one genie, one seamless show.

Phantos Command mid-show: a magenta beam in the output preview, drawn live from the DMX the console is sending; preset tiles for intensity, position, colour, beam and gobo; groups; executors; programmer time; the command line — **ALL OF THIS IS DMX.** The beam in the preview is not a video and not a render of a file — it is the light the console is sending at this instant, drawn live from the DMX frame. Every tile is a preset: intensity · position · colour · beam · gobo. Groups on the left, executors on the right, programmer time on the fader, one command line underneath. One screen, one show, one laptop.

The Phantos Command surface running a live stained-glass show — outputs, preset pools, gobos, groups, canvas preview and the command line — THE REAL SURFACE — Command running a live show: outputs · presets · gobos · groups · canvas preview · one command line.

A front-of-house desk running Phantos: laptop, two Stream Deck control surfaces and a monitor, mid-show — FOH, MID-SHOW — one laptop, two key decks. That's the rig.

CONSOLE ── programmer · presets · executors · FX ──┐ MEDIA ──── canvas · gobos · NDI · edge-blend ──────┤──▶ ONE CONSOLE ──▶ DMX · sACN · Art-Net · ATEM · VISCA · AW CAMERAS ── PTZ · switchers · tally ────────────────┘

What it is

Everything that’s normally a separate purchase

Lighting console

Programmer, presets, groups, executors, FX, align and fan — every source resolved as one. DMX, sACN, Art-Net.

Media server

Renders canvas to displays and NDI. Content, gobos, crossfades, warp and edge-blend, multi-node.

Cameras, switchers, projectors, video walls

PTZ cameras over VISCA and Panasonic AW. ATEM switchers. Projectors and video wall processors over Art-Net and sACN, Panasonic included. And every light on DMX, sACN and Art-Net — all from the same desk, and none of it fights the other.

Voice control — works offline

Speak console commands and they execute — on-device speech, no internet required, gated by an explicit safe word. Natural-language asks and deeper AI faculties are in development. AI never sits in the render path.

Call it on comms

Phantos rides its own intercom channel. Key the channel from your beltpack, call the cue like you’d call it to an operator — end with the safe word and it executes. The headset you already wear is the console.

Key decks + game controllers

Stream Deck surfaces run native — command keypads, executor grids, encoder dials with live feedback. Pair a game controller and drive positions, PTZ and zoom with your thumbs.

Not ready to apply?

The beta asks you to read two agreements and tell us about your rig — fair, but it is a lot for a first visit. Leave an address instead and we will tell you when there is something to try.

One email when it opens. Nothing else, and no list we sell or share. Already sure? Apply for the beta.

The free build — arrives with v1

At launch: learn the whole console for nothing

Capability	Free	Licensed
Programming — CLI, presets, groups, executors, FX, align/fan	FULL	full
Patch, profiles, fixture library	FULL	full
Save and load shows	FULL	full
Media render to display and NDI	watermarked	clean
Multi-node sessions	FULL	full
DMX / sACN / Art-Net output	1 universe	unlimited
Device control — ATEM, VISCA, AW cameras	1 device	unlimited

Your show files always save. Pre-programme at home free; the licence turns output on at the venue. Licensed builds validate fully offline, forever — nothing fails at 7pm because the internet did.
v1 ships the core suite — console, merge, media, device control.

Founding customer programme

Founding rate: $299

One licence covers the whole system — every Command surface, every Light renderer, every node on your rig. Perpetual licence, first year of updates included, and you ride the beta from the day you buy. Nobody who buys after you ever pays less than you did. In exchange: your feedback, your fixture list, and your name when you’re happy.

Buy the founding licence — $299 Talk to the builder

Secure checkout by Paddle, our merchant of record — card, Apple Pay or PayPal. Your licence key is minted by a person and emailed to you, usually within a day. 30-day full refund if it is not for you.

You’ll be talking to the person who wrote it — a working LD who runs Phantos on real shows.

Lights. Media. Cameras.One merge.