Born inside Skeldon.
Enterprise rigor. Open-source spirit.
Where Formray comes from
Formray did not start in a garage or a co-working space. It started inside Skeldon — a cooperative enterprise based in Voghera, Italy, specializing in entertainment and technical production: audio, video, lighting, and live events. Skeldon also develops internal management systems and maintains its own digital infrastructure.
The idea was simple: take the production discipline of technical operations — where systems must work the first time, every time — and apply it to open-source software. Build tools that are robust enough for production, transparent enough for trust, and free enough for anyone to use.
Formray is the internal incubator that became its own thing — a dedicated space for building products with time and care, without the pressure of quarterly targets.
How it works
The relationship is straightforward. Skeldon provides the experience, infrastructure, and real-world validation. Formray provides the products, the research, and the open-source identity. Both benefit. The community benefits most.
The relationship
What Skeldon provides
Production experience
Years of technical production — audio engineering, live events, operational systems — and the discipline of building things that must work reliably under real-world conditions.
Infrastructure
Development resources, testing environments, and the operational backbone that lets Formray focus on building products.
Real-world validation
Real operations with real constraints. Every Formray product is tested against actual use cases from technical production and internal systems, not hypothetical ones.
What Formray provides
Open-source products
Tools that serve the broader community — not locked behind enterprise licenses. Privacy-first, self-hostable, built in the open.
Research and innovation
Space to explore ideas that do not have immediate commercial returns. Long-term thinking over short-term revenue.
A public identity
A brand that stands for something — craft, privacy, transparency. Formray is the face of what Skeldon believes technology should be.
Why this matters
Most open-source projects are built in spare time, by individuals, with limited resources. They often lack the operational discipline that production software requires — security reviews, compliance awareness, long-term maintenance planning.
Formray products carry Skeldon's operational experience from day one. DARC was built with EU whistleblowing compliance in mind. AEGIS is designed for audio regulation. PRELUDE understands Kubernetes at production scale. This is not hobby software — it is production software that happens to be open source.
Build first, monetize later
The incubator model gives Formray something rare: time. Time to build properly, time to test thoroughly, time to make decisions based on what is right rather than what is fast.
The goal is not one product. It is ten. A portfolio of open-source tools that each solve a specific problem with care. Some will find commercial models through enterprise features. Others will remain purely open. All will be built to last.
Revenue follows trust. Trust follows quality. Quality follows time. The incubator gives us that time.
From the incubator: SafetySfy
SafetySfy started as an internal tool built inside Skeldon for workplace safety management — tracking personal protective equipment, inspections, and compliance across teams. A real problem, solved with real-world rigor.
It now operates as an independent platform. ISO 45001 compliant, AI-powered inspections, automatic expiry alerts. The kind of product that emerges when enterprise experience meets focused engineering.
See what we're building.
Explore our products — open source, privacy-first, and designed to last.