RENT is Raconteur's development arm.
Every tool we build started as a problem we couldn't solve any other way - on site, under pressure, with a show going live in an hour.
Most production software is designed by people who've never had to pull cable at 2am.
RENT is a play on our name - rack-en-tour.
It's the part of Raconteur that solves problems when off-the-shelf stops cutting it.
Software that actually fits into a production workflow.
Hardware that works in the field, not just in a lab.
Everything we ship has been stress-tested in real environments - live events, touring productions, broadcast workflows.
If it hasn't survived a show, it doesn't get a name.
Some of what we build stays internal.
Some of it we make available to other teams who are tired of the same workarounds we were.
More projects are in the works that we can't talk about yet.
What's here is what's ready.
Ingest is the part of post-production nobody wants to think about until it breaks.
Wrangler makes it reliable - structured ingest, automatic proxy generation, and a clean handoff into your edit workflow.
Native macOS. Swift and Metal from the ground up.
MELD sits between show control and live visual mixing - think QLab-style cue programming with Resolume-level real-time output.
A grandMA2-style command line for people who hate clicking through menus at showtime.
Project management built around how production companies actually work - jobs, callsheets, crew, assets, and comms in one self-hosted workspace.
No per-seat SaaS pricing. No data on someone else's server.
One server that pulls your tasks in from everywhere - Logseq, Monday, Teams, email, WhatsApp - runs a priority curve across all of them, and lets an AI agent triage, summarise, and act with your sign-off.
A personal ops hub that doesn't require you to live in five different apps.
Peer-to-peer fleet management for small teams who need real control without the overhead of a full MDM.
Enroll a machine with a single curl command and it joins your Tailscale network automatically.
Assign a role, and Conductor handles the software loadout - flagging drift, provisioning accounts, and walking new starters through onboarding without anyone needing to be in the room.
A lighting desk you can open from any machine on the network.
Bridge runs headless on whatever hardware you point it at - a mini PC tucked in a rack, a small board backstage - and gives you a full browser-based console from an iPad, a laptop, or a touchscreen anywhere on LAN.
Multi-protocol output means it plays well with whatever rig you're driving.
Designed to pair with existing nodes and hardware - not replace them.
Every tool in our lineup started because something didn't exist, or what existed wasn't good enough.
If you're hitting the same wall, we know what that feels like - and we build for it.
We take on custom software and hardware development for production companies, venues, and broadcast teams.
If it touches live or post-production, we're interested.
Whether you're interested in licensing one of our tools, need a custom build, or just want to know if we can help - reach out.
We're a small team and we actually reply.