Your comms stay yours.
CommsWatch is built for productions where what’s said on headset never leaves the building, unless you decide it can.
Listen-only by design
No talk path, so CommsWatch can never key a channel, inject audio or end up on air.
You choose what’s heard
Monitor only the channels and P2P keys you select. Excluded keys are never captured, not even temporarily.
You choose what’s kept
Set audio and transcript retention separately, down to “process and discard”: alerts only, nothing stored.
Encrypted end to end
TLS 1.3 in transit, AES-256 at rest, per-customer keys. Your audio is never used to train shared models without written opt-in.
Run it where your policy says.
| Cloud | Private cloud | On-prem appliance | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where audio is processed | CommsWatch cloud, region of your choice | Your AWS / Azure / GCP tenancy | 1U server in your rack or OB truck |
| Internet required | Yes | Yes (your network) | No. Fully air-gapped mode available |
| Best for | Touring, events, small venues | Networks with cloud policies | Sensitive broadcasts, government, high-profile talent |
| Plan | All plans | Enterprise | Enterprise |
Monitoring that crews know about.
Every plan includes a crew transparency kit: a printable notice for the comms room and a short on-headset announcement script, so everyone on the show knows which channels are monitored and why.
- Printable channel-monitoring notice
- On-headset announcement script
- Per-channel exclusions for private conversations
Request the security pack
Architecture overview, data-flow diagram, retention options and our DPA.
Built by people who’ve been on the other end of the headset.
CommsWatch started on a live show where a failing beltpack and an unanswered camera call were both audible on comms, and nobody had the bandwidth to hear them in time.
Our mission is to give every comms engineer a second pair of ears, so live shows fail less often and recover faster.
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Role · years in live production / comms
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Role · broadcast engineering background
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Role · speech AI background