Where Hardware Meets Software
We design systems that seamlessly connect touchscreen displays, sensors, lighting, cameras, and RFID with the custom software that powers the experience—so everything behaves like one product, not a pile of parts.
Custom Games, Touchscreens
+ Builds
Custom-built systems for immersive brand experiences—where we fuse software + hardware into one reliable activation: touchscreens, sensors, RFID, cameras, lighting, and real-time data pipelines.
Custom software · Built for Microsoft with Squeak E. Clean StudiosMicrosoft asked us to make Paint a live event. Paint has no API. We made it work anyway.
Paint is made for one person at their own PC, with Copilot features like Cocreator, and was never designed to be driven by another app. We wrote a native Windows on Arm companion for Surface Pro that opens each guest's portrait in the real Paint, adds a touch sticker strip, reads the layered file Paint saves, and texts back an animated video in seconds.
- Guests Made Art in Paint
181
Guests Made Art in Paint
- Photos + Videos Texted
255
Photos + Videos Texted
- Deliveries Confirmed
100%
Deliveries Confirmed
Vesper · Brooklyn, NY
Custom-Built Tech That Powers Engagement
From Behind The Scenes
We build software specifically for live events—touchscreen apps, scoring systems, wayfinding, identity workflows, and the backend that makes it all reliable under real-world load. And we don’t stop at code: we integrate the physical layer (displays, scanners, RFID readers, sensors, cameras, LEDs) so the experience feels seamless and runs predictably on site. Whether we’re integrating with your API or building from scratch, our builds are stable, scalable, and designed to make activations unforgettable.
Forget Templates.
Let’s Build Something Wild
From custom-built games and touchscreen displays to mobile apps and touring tech kits, we design interactive experiences that grab attention—and make it work flawlessly on site. Every one starts from a blank page and your brand guidelines, never from a template.
Bring Your Big Idea To Life
Whether you’re starting from a sketch or a full client brief, we’ll help you shape the concept, prototype the experience, and ship a finished product that works on time.
Built For Compliance And Connectivity
Our platforms can be built with consent capture and scoped data sharing, work offline when needed, and integrate with your CRM, API, or lead capture system.
No templates. Ever.
Every deployment is a custom build for your company.
Your brand guidelines, not ours.
Nothing we ship is a product with your logo dropped on it. Each program is designed and built from scratch for the brand running it, by our own local, in-house developers (nothing outsourced, nothing offshore), to the brand guidelines your marketing team already enforces. Your typefaces, your colors, your motion, your tone, your legal lines. Ours never appear.
Bring the brand guidelines to the kickoff call. No formal guidelines yet? We work from your logo files and website and send a style sheet for sign-off before the build starts.
Your typography and color system
We build to the brand book: approved typefaces, exact color values, logo clear space, and lockups. No near-miss colors, no fallback fonts.
Your voice on every screen
Start screens, prompts, consent language, share pages, and texts are written in your tone, then approved by your team before anything ships.
Your motion and sound
Transitions, idle loops, win states, and audio follow your motion and sound rules, or stay quiet if the brand says so.
Your legal and compliance lines
Official rules, disclaimers, age gates, and opt-in copy placed where your counsel wants them, word for word.
Your look on the hardware
Wraps, enclosures, and fabrication finished in the brand palette and materials. Nothing on the floor says PivotXP.
Your sign-off before it ships
You review a working build, not a mockup, and approve it against your guidelines before it goes on a truck.
Live demo
A touchscreen built for rain, snow, and desert sand.
Polaris tests its machines in the harshest places on earth, so its touchscreen had to survive them too. We built “Touch to See How Tough Is Tested” from the ground up: a custom touch app on a display made for the outdoors, touring through rain, snow, heat, desert sun, sand, and wind. Every tap is tracked in analytics, and Polaris can swap videos from a CMS without a developer on site. Drive it here, on any screen.
Polaris "Tough Doesn't Quit"
A custom touchscreen built for every outdoor element
Browser-playable demo. Swipe the rows, tap a video. Nothing is stored.
All-weather
Rain, snow, heat, sand, wind
831,506
Seconds watched on tour
Every tap
Tracked in analytics
CMS-ready
Swap videos, no developer
Project Proof
Software That Carries a Live Activation
Each build below is a real PivotXP case study — custom code paired with the physical layer, deployed on-site, and held together by the same idea: software that disappears into the experience.
Milwaukee · Summerfest
UScellular · rEvolution
US Mode: A 15-Foot Boombox Built to Stop You
A custom-built, gamified festival activation where guests dropped their phone to play. PivotXP engineered the iPad interface, the Raspberry Pi + PC button logic, the GPIO-driven LED lights, and the live radio-dial scoring display — every layer running locally with no internet dependency.
648,112
Buttons Pressed
15 ft
Boombox Build
<10s
Game Reset
- Touch-driven UI with no app, no account, no friction
- Local hardware stack — no internet required
- Custom GPIO + LED scoring built into a single rig
Baltimore · Army–Navy
Chevrolet · Army–Navy Game
Built for Competition: A Game-Day Throw Wall
Two 8-foot by 7-foot custom throwing boards engineered for live accuracy challenges. Every throw fired custom sensors, triggered illuminated holes, fed an RFID-bound profile, and dropped onto a real-time joint leaderboard split between Army and Navy fans. Software, hardware, and physical design as one product.
1,739
Footballs Thrown
30s
Per Round
RFID
Bound Profile
- Real-time scoring + Army vs Navy team-affiliation leaderboard
- Custom sensors + illuminated hole logic
- Green-screen photo kiosk with automated SMS / email delivery
Chevy Tour
Chevrolet · Jack Morton
Pitch Against the Machine: Beat a 96 MPH Chevelle
A radar gun, a Canon R8 at 120fps, RFID-triggered sessions, and real-time processing — all under one roof. Every guest walked away with a custom cinematic clip showing their pitch composited against a 1968 Chevelle clocked at 96 mph. Delivered in under a minute, no green screen, no post-production.
963
Pitches Thrown
321
Videos Delivered
78 MPH
Fastest Arm
- Radar speed tracking + 120 fps cinematic capture
- Live composite render against the real Chevelle benchmark
- Under-a-minute auto-delivery via email + SMS
Multi-Venue Tour
Polaris
Touch to See How Tough Is Tested
A custom touchscreen experience we designed and built from the ground up, on a display made to tour outdoors in rain, snow, heat, desert sand, and wind. Guests browsed test categories and played on-demand stress-test videos at their own pace, while analytics tracked every tap and Polaris swapped content without a developer on site.
831,506
Seconds Watched
All-Weather
Outdoor Touchscreen
Every Tap
Tracked in Analytics
- Custom touch app and branded UI, designed and built in house
- Outdoor-ready hardware: rain, snow, heat, sand, and wind across a multi-venue tour
- Analytics on every interaction, with videos swappable from a CMS
In the field
Beyond the booth line.
Full custom sets, broadcast desks, and branded builds, designed and run by Pivot crews.
Chevrolet football toss cage
Army-Navy game, with live scoreboard and leaderboard
UScellular giant boombox
40-button wall at Summerfest
Ally basketball bucket wall
ACC Women's Tournament, with live leaderboard
T. Rowe Price Curiosity Challenge
Trivia podium at the ACC Men's Tournament
Hey Dude at the WM Phoenix Open
Golf-hole overlay photo frame
LIV Golf install
Broadcast-desk build, designed and run by Pivot crews
More Builds
Looking for more proof?
Browse the full library of PivotXP case studies — RFID identity systems, live leaderboards, robot-cam capture rigs, green-screen production, and more.
How custom builds are quoted
What a custom build quote contains.
Concept deck in, a scoped quote out the same business day. A custom interactive is a software product with hardware attached, and the quote reads that way: one fixed price for the scoped build, hardware itemized as pass-through, and the deployment, support, and change-order terms written down before anyone starts.
Nine lines, always in this order, so you can compare two of our quotes against each other and never against a booth rental. Send the concept deck and a budget bracket and the first version comes back the same business day.
1. Discovery and experience design
The brief becomes a build spec: guest flow, screens, scoring or capture logic, data fields, and the hardware list. Waived on returning accounts, but it always appears.
2. Software build
One fixed fee for the scoped build, with the complexity tier named: a new skin on an existing engine, a new interaction with data capture, or a multi-mode build with sensors, AI, or integrations.
3. Hardware
Itemized as pass-through: screens, kiosks, readers, sensors, printers, cases. Your team or your fabricator can supply any of it.
4. Deployment, burn-in, and configuration
Kiosk prep, pre-ship test, and the burn-in run on the real program before it leaves.
5. On-site technician days and travel
Priced per tech per day at one rate for every client; travel at cost with a range quoted up front.
6. Shipping and road cases
Round trip, parcel or freight, with return labels.
7. Post-event support window
Remote support for a set window after the event, with an optional hosting and support subscription for programs that keep running.
8. Change orders and rush terms
Written before the work, at a rate printed in the contract. Nothing is "not a problem" without a line, even when that line is waived.
9. Contingency
Added when your procurement matrix asks for one, shown as its own line.
Built once, licensed per deployment
Five proven cores sit under most of what we build.
Each one has run in the field for seasons, is maintained by our own developers, and is redeployed to a new brand with new creative, new rules, and new dates. A returning program is a license line and a redeploy, not a rebuild. A permanent install or an agency fleet can license a core outright with hosting and a support subscription.
Programs + LicensingTrading-card engine
Capture, card designs set to the brand book, variable data, and on-site printing. Redeployed for auto, sports, and CPG programs.
Live leaderboard
Scoring rules, prize windows, team and city rankings, offline tour scoring, and jumbotron or LED views.
Capture-system software
The software on every Selfie Station, Pro Kiosk, Robot, 360, and Array: capture, AI enhancements, delivery by text, email, or QR.
Registration and data-capture backend
One guest record across QR, RFID, and kiosk touchpoints, with consent, dedupe, dashboard, and CSV or API export.
Kiosk OS
Lockdown, remote access, watchdog, health reporting, and content swaps on every unit we ship.
If something goes wrong on site
Either we are standing next to it, or we fix it remotely.
Every build is hosted online and every unit is reachable by our team, so most issues are handled from our desk while your event keeps running. For programs where the client is in the room, a multi-unit footprint, or a first live day, we put a PivotXP tech on site. Which one fits depends on the event, and we tell you at the quote stage.
Lead times
How much runway each kind of project needs.
Kiosk or Starlink rental
Ships the next business day after the contract is signed, timed to arrive before your setup date.
Brand an existing kiosk
Days once your art arrives. Wrap art, overlays, share page, and AI creative. Art specs sent at kickoff.
Custom software build
Days for a proven format, a few weeks for something new. Local, in-house developers, never outsourced, scenario-tested before it ships.
Hardware + software concept
Weeks, not months. Software and sensor integration in house; fabrication gets a real date at the quote stage.
Clickable prototype for a pitch
Days. Enough to win the room before anything is built.
Tight timeline? Say so on the form. Rentals and returning programs move in days; we will tell you honestly what a new build can hit.
Data, privacy + AI
What we capture, where it lives, and how you get it.
Guest data belongs to your client. We hold it only as long as the program needs, deliver it as a clean export, purge PII after close, and disclose exactly where AI is used. The plain-language version is one page.
Let’s Build Your Next Crowd-Puller
From digital prize wheels to fully branded games, we create interactive experiences that drive attention, capture data, and leave guests smiling.
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