Build and control each downstage monitor with slides, speech-following notes, teleprompter scripts, clocks, messages, TRT, and confidence feeds. Keep every Keynote, PowerPoint, and PDF presentation organized and ready in the same technician workspace.
Control the view downstage first. The queue, production tools, and show-machine network support that job.
Move and resize slides, notes, teleprompter, clocks, messages, and NDI confidence feeds on a free-form canvas. Save layouts as presets, assign a look at the start of a deck, or let the deck change individual DSMs at specific slides.
Presenter notes and imported teleprompter scripts scroll with the speaker on-device, recover after skips and asides, and reduce the need for a dedicated prompter operator.
Keynote and PowerPoint keep running the presentation. With Native Presenter fallback configured on separate displays, Downstage aligns its enhancement above the familiar native presenter view.
Queue Keynote, PowerPoint, and PDF together without re-authoring. Keynote and PowerPoint retain native playback; PDFs play directly through Downstage.
Send each deck, script, notes, and presenter setup to Main, Backup, and auxiliary Macs. See which machines are ready, then load or launch the presentation from Control.
Give the director Program, Presenter, and Light Table in one view, with builds, deck elapsed time, time remaining on embedded video, show timing, and acknowledged messages sent directly to the presenter’s DSM.
Verify permissions, presentation apps, displays, speech input, and optional NDI before rehearsal. Downstage runs locally and does not require internet to operate at showtime.
Queue Keynote, PowerPoint, and PDF files, choose destinations, and attach notes or teleprompter scripts.
Arrange presenter-facing sources, save the layout, and assign any deck-aware preset changes.
Route the DSMs, confirm speech following and native fallback, distribute to Backup, and give production the visibility it needs.
The founding cohort is intentionally small so each operator can rehearse, run a show, and get a useful response when the room exposes an edge.
No — and that's deliberate. Licensing is verified on the machine itself with a cryptographic signature. Venue networks are locked down, flaky, or absent; Downstage never phones home to let you run a show.
A founding-beta key covers your working rig: the main show Mac plus its backup, because if you run shows the way we do, the backup isn't optional.
Downstage is a macOS app for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. It drives Keynote natively and plays PowerPoint decks as delivered.
Email support@downstage.technology with the kind of shows you run, your Mac and macOS version, display count, and your next rehearsal. Accepted operators receive the app and a beta key directly.
Downstage 1.0 becomes a one-time perpetual license — no subscription. Beta operators hear first when that happens, and your show files carry forward as-is.
The founding beta is invite-based so the first wave stays supportable. Accepted operators review the terms, create their license, and receive the current compatible build through one private enrollment page.
Request beta access