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No. Radio, LIVE, and Studio are independent products. Use the one that solves your current need. Connecting them simply creates additional value because communication, video, telemetry, and session context can share the same RaceAI environment.

No. All three are first-class RaceAI products. Radio solves communication. LIVE solves real-time visibility. Studio solves analysis and understanding. None requires Studio in order to be useful.

Radio can preserve what the team said. LIVE can preserve what was happening around the car. Studio can combine those sources with telemetry, setup, weather, driver feedback, notes, and history to help the team understand what happened and why.

No. RaceAI is designed to work with professional data systems rather than replace them. Studio currently supports MoTeC and AiM exports, with additional systems planned. Your existing logger and vendor software remain part of your workflow.

Traditional race radios depend on RF range and line-of-sight conditions. RaceAI Radio uses cellular and internet connectivity, allowing approved team members to communicate from the track, paddock, shop, home, or another location entirely.

No. The driver uses the familiar racing workflow: helmet microphone, earbuds, and push-to-talk. RaceAI onboard hardware handles the digital communication path. Team members use the RaceAI Android app on compatible smartphones.

Yes, the Radio system is designed around the existing racing-audio workflow. Compatibility depends on the audio connection used by the driver's current equipment, and the RaceAI hardware connects that audio into the digital Radio system.

Yes. That is one of Radio's major advantages. An authorized coach, engineer, owner, or crew member can participate from anywhere with suitable internet connectivity.

Yes. Authorized users can switch between team cars and channels in the app rather than carrying a separate physical radio for every car. A user participates in the selected conversation rather than listening to every car simultaneously.

Yes. RaceAI supports team communication workflows such as driver, crew, engineering, spotter, and private conversations so the right people can participate in the right discussion.

RaceAI can record and transcribe Radio communication so driver feedback, engineering discussions, warnings, and decisions can be preserved as useful race-session history.

Radio and LIVE depend on cellular connectivity, so service quality ultimately depends on available network coverage and capacity at the circuit. RaceAI's cellular architecture is designed for motorsports use, but no cellular-based system can guarantee service where usable network coverage does not exist.

LIVE streams the in-car video source while the car is on track. With a supported AIM SmartyCam, that can include the camera view together with the telemetry overlay configured on the camera.

Yes. RaceAI LIVE is sold as LIVE + Radio. The $299/month per-car LIVE subscription includes the full RaceAI Radio service.

Recorded video tells you what happened after the session. LIVE lets coaches, engineers, crew, and approved viewers see what is happening while the car is still on track. That creates a real-time coaching and decision-making opportunity.

Yes. A remote coach can watch the approved LIVE stream and use RaceAI Radio to communicate with the driver. That enables a watch → communicate → observe-the-result workflow without requiring the coach to be physically at the circuit.

RaceAI LIVE currently uses AIM SmartyCam 3 GP or Dual as the supported SDI video source.

Yes. LIVE can preserve the video in the team's cloud account for later review. If the team also uses Studio, that recorded video can become part of the session evidence used for coaching and investigation.

Yes. Authorized team members can view LIVE, and teams can also choose to allow spectator viewing under the owner's access settings.

No. The LIVE Spectator subscription is watch-only. Team audio is not included.

No. Studio uses purpose-built motorsports tools, normalized data, context assembly, caching, evidence generation, AI Agents, and multiple LLM providers. The model is one part of the system rather than the entire product.

Studio has three primary AI workflows:

• AI Chat — text or voice conversation around a selected session and lap.
• AI Driver Coaching — interactive coaching with telemetry, track map, video, and other evidence.
• AI Investigate — agent-based investigation across much larger bodies of racing history.

AI Investigate is RaceAI's agent-based technology for difficult questions that may require many calculations, tools, comparisons, and evidence sources. It can work across sessions, drivers, cars, events, and longer histories rather than being limited to one prompt or one lap.

RaceAI currently supports OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and Grok model families. The architecture is designed so the motorsports intelligence layer is not tied to one AI vendor.

No. RaceAI is designed to help engineers, coaches, crew chiefs, and drivers work with more evidence and preserved knowledge. The goal is to augment human judgment—not pretend that a language model replaces racing experience.

No. Studio works independently with supported racing data. Radio and LIVE simply provide additional communication and video context if you choose to use them.

Solo is for one team, one car, and one driver. Pro supports one team with one car included, unlimited drivers, and additional cars for $25/month each. Pro+ adds authorized linked-team access and broader participating-community intelligence for AI Investigate.

Each connected car creates direct operating costs including cellular service, cloud infrastructure, streaming, recording, and active-session services. The per-car model keeps those costs aligned with the cars actually using the platform.

No. Team Owner and standard Team Member access are included for the team's Radio or LIVE service. Paid Power User and Spectator subscriptions are intended for different access patterns.

A Radio Power User is someone who needs portable access across multiple authorized teams—for example, an engineer, coach, or crew member who works with several programs. Radio Power User pricing is $12.99/month.

A LIVE Power User can use LIVE with the current team and join other authorized teams using their private connection key. LIVE Power User pricing is $14.99/month.

Radio Spectator is $2.99/month for listen-only access where the team permits it. LIVE Spectator is $4.99/month for watch-only access; team audio is not included.

AI Credits are dollar-denominated usage credits included with each Studio plan. They simplify AI billing across different model providers whose raw token costs vary.

Studio Solo includes $20/month, Studio Pro includes $30/month, and Studio Pro+ includes $50/month in RaceAI AI Credits.

Additional AI usage is billed based on consumption. Team Owners can be given monthly AI-spending limits so additional usage remains controlled and predictable.

No. Included subscription credits reset each billing cycle rather than accumulating indefinitely.

Public means the Team Owner allows the team to be searchable and discoverable inside the RaceAI platform. It does not automatically mean that anyone can join, listen, or watch.

Yes. Discoverability and authorization are separate controls. A team can be searchable while still requiring a private connection key before another user can join.

The Team Owner. The team decides whether spectators may listen to Radio, watch LIVE, require authorization, or have no spectator access at all.

No. RaceAI's access model is intended to keep private team communications private unless the Team Owner deliberately enables the relevant spectator or public access.

A linked team is another participating team that explicitly authorizes access. Linked-team access is different from general community intelligence because it is a direct, permission-based relationship.

Community intelligence is broader learning from participating teams. It is intended to give AI Investigate a larger evidence base while preserving team control and privacy. Participation is optional.

Yes. Radio requires RaceAI onboard hardware, active cellular service, driver audio connectivity, and a PTT input.

Yes. LIVE requires the higher-performance onboard system because it adds SDI video capture, encoding, and live streaming. Teams that know they want LIVE should start with the LIVE hardware package.

Yes, but LIVE requires the higher-performance hardware configuration and video interface. If LIVE is likely in the near future, starting with the LIVE hardware package may be the simpler path.

No. The current RaceAI onboard platform does not require a CAN interface for Radio or LIVE.

Radio and LIVE currently use Android smartphones and tablets. iOS support is planned for the future.

Radio and LIVE need a working network connection. If no suitable cellular connectivity exists, the real-time cloud features cannot operate normally. Network conditions should be considered for tracks where coverage is known to be difficult.