A festival is the one place where a phone stops being useful. Thirty thousand people share one cell tower, so the schedule will not load, the map will not load, and the group chat where everyone agreed to meet will not load either. The information you need most is the information you cannot reach.

• The paper program works. That is the bar.

Not a generic events feed. Festivus currently covers three Berlin editions with their own published programs: Pop-Kultur, seven days of live music, commissioned works and talks from 24 to 30 August. Berlin Art Week, five days and around a hundred art venues from 9 to 13 September, in its fifteenth edition. And the Festival of Lights, ten nights across nineteen landmarks from 9 to 18 October, free to visit.

• Real acts, real times, real venues, taken from each festival's own program.

The program runs one day at a time with a live feed of what is starting soon. Add things to your plan and Festivus tells you when two of them overlap, which is the decision every festival day is actually made of - the thing you want and the other thing you want, at the same time, on opposite sides of the city.

Signing up mints a short crew code. The code is the login - no email, no password, nothing to remember and nothing to lose. You give it to the people you came with, and from then on you share one open lobby chat for that festival and can drop a last location that pins you on the venue map.

• Last locations, not live tracking. You choose when to drop one.

Lumi rides along as a guide grounded on the three official programs. Ask her what is on tonight, which festival is next, or how the crew code works, and she answers from the programs themselves rather than from a general impression of festivals. Ask her something the programs do not contain and she says so.

All of it, and it is live and free to use right now. Three real programs, the day feed, the plan with clash warnings, crew codes, lobby chat, last-location check-ins on a real venue map, Lumi grounded on the programs, and the whole app working offline. Real accounts and real messages, stored properly rather than in the browser.

• Beta, free, and installable on the phone.

Free during the beta, with no paywall on anything. Afterwards the companion stays free and Festivus Pro is a dollar a month for offline packs, multi-festival plans and the crew tools across a whole season. The second side is the festivals themselves - a branded presence carrying their official program, map and lobby.

Festivus is raising a first round of $250,000 - the software-track figure. It is a runway requirement rather than a valuation: the operating layer, the fundraising costs, the human hours, the AI and infrastructure, the marketing, the legal and tax reserves and an operating buffer, added up and published line by line. Offers are non-binding, start at $1, and no money moves until a round closes and the company is incorporated.

• No return is guaranteed. We recommend understanding the model, the business plan, and the risks before investing actual money. Consider independent professional advice if needed. Dream x Destiny does not provide investment advice.