Given, not sold
PlayaOS is a gift to the playa.
A free portal for every theme camp. Free playa tools — and an AI beta for ChatGPT and Claude — for every burner. And the full API, SDKs, and UI kit for camps that would rather build their own. No tiers, no member caps, nothing held back.
Three ways to take the gift
Run a camp of three hundred, pack for your first burn, or build your own portal from scratch — there's a door for you, and none of them costs anything.
For camps
Run your camp on a free portal
Your camp gets its own branded portal — roster, applications, dues, shelter, and shifts in one place, so the load stops landing on the same two leads every year. Set it up in an afternoon, invite your crew, and get your off-season back.
For burners
Free tools, plus an AI beta
No camp required. The packing list, marketplace, events, art, and camp directory are free for everyone — on the web today, and in beta inside ChatGPT, Claude, and agent harnesses like OpenClaw and Hermes, where your assistant can manage your packing list and search the playa for you.
For builders
Build your own portal on our rails
Rather build — or vibe-code — your camp's site yourself? Take the typed API, SDKs, UI kit, and embeddable widgets; we run the servers and manage the database. Your custom portal, your domain, our infrastructure. Point an AI coding agent at our docs and go.
For camps
Everything a theme camp runs on
Roster, applications, dues, shelter, shifts, and kitchen: the parts of camp that used to live in a spreadsheet, a Venmo thread, and a 400-message group chat.
Members & roster
Keep every camper in one roster, burn after burn. Profiles, contact info, emergency contacts, dietary needs, and ticket status, so you always know who is actually coming.
Applications & vibe checks
Take applications, run your vibe checks, and bring new campmates on board without losing anyone in a group chat. Build the application your camp actually asks, then move people through it.
Shelters & placement
Map your camp footprint and put everyone under cover. RVs, shiftpods, hexayurts, and tents, with power and capacity tracked so placement stops living in your head.
Shifts & labor
Build the shift schedule once, then let campmates sign up and check in. Fair distribution is built in, so nobody gets stuck with every MOOP sweep.
Dues & payments
Collect camp dues online through Givebutter and see who has paid at a glance. Dues cover shared infrastructure, so this is about splitting real costs fairly, not turning a profit.
Kitchen & meals
Feed the whole camp without the daily scramble. Plan meals, track dietary needs and allergies, generate shopping lists, and staff the kitchen, with AI briefings to help your kitchen leads prep.
Every feature, for camps of any size, at no cost — no member cap, no per-person charge, no paid tier waiting behind it.
Get your camp's free portalFor burners
Free tools for everyone headed to the dust
You don't need to belong to a camp — or spend a dollar — to use any of these. A free account saves your packing progress and lets you post to the marketplace.
Packing list
The community-curated Burning Man packing list. Track have, need, and packed — down to which tote it's in.
Marketplace
Bikes, shade structures, EL wire, rides. Post and browse listings from the community, no money changing hands required.
Events
Every registered event on playa, searchable before your phone loses signal at Gerlach.
Art
Art installations across Black Rock City, so you can plan the deep-playa rides that matter to you.
Camp directory
Browse public theme camps, find the ones doing what you love, and see who is recruiting.
All of it, in your AI Beta
Every tool on this page, inside ChatGPT and Claude. Join the beta and let your assistant do the looking-up.
AI app beta
Take the playa into ChatGPT and Claude
PlayaOS speaks MCP — the open protocol AI assistants use to reach real tools. Connect once with a free account and your assistant can search events and art, manage your packing list tote by tote, and browse the marketplace, right in the conversation.
Free account, two-minute setup.
Running an agent harness? OpenClaw and Hermes setup →
- What art is out past 10:00 & Esplanade this year?
- Add rebar caps to my packing list and mark the water jugs packed.
- Search the marketplace for a playa bike near Reno.
Black Rock City runs on gifts, and this is ours: the portal, the tools, the data, and the platform to build on, given freely. The hours you save go back into your camp and your art — not into admin, and not into a subscription.
The gift is ready when you are.
Give your camp a free portal, or take the free playa tools into ChatGPT and Claude. Either way, it costs nothing.
Building your camp's site yourself? The API, SDKs, and UI kit are part of the gift too.