Talkback in the browser.

ForeWire is a soft keypanel, a four-wire and a partyline intercom with a proper matrix behind it. A Port is a link. Send it, they open it, hold to talk.

The panel is the page. Red means you are talking, nothing else.

Why it exists

Production intercom assumes the crew is in the building. The moment a commentator calls in from home, a producer joins from a hotel, or a guest position appears an hour before air, someone ends up rigging a phone hybrid at midnight and calling it comms.

ForeWire moves the panel to the one device every freelancer already carries. The matrix keeps the discipline. The seat becomes a URL.

How a show gets on comms

Provision. Each seat gets a Port. A Port is a stable link, like /p/commentary, and it survives the crew change.
Distribute. Send the link. Sign-in is a one-shot emailed link, so there is no password to reset at 19:58.
Talk. Hold to talk, latch when the format calls for it. Conferences, IFB and programme routing live in the matrix, not on the phone.

The vocabulary is the industry's

Ports, Conferences, IFB, Keys, Latch and Momentary mean here what they mean on a hardware panel, so a comms plan translates without a glossary and a hired operator is productive in the first minute.

Talent IFB ducks programme while the key is down and hands it back the moment it lifts. Commentary positions carry a proper programme tally. A Stream Deck runs the panel through Bitfocus Companion, in the same colours the touch surface shows.

The Interoperable in the wordmark is a roadmap, not a decoration: four-wire interconnect toward SIP, AES67 and Dante, so the browser seats and the racks end up on the same matrix.

Where it stands

ForeWire is built by a working broadcast engineer and carries real productions today. It is in active development, and the roadmap is honest about what is not there yet.

If it sounds like your kind of tool, write and describe your show. If you already crew here, sign in.