PodiumOS is an identity and commerce layer for sim racing. A driver gets one verified account that carries their racing hours across home rigs, venues, coaches and leagues, with a wallet, a loyalty programme and a marketplace built on top of that identity.
PodiumOS is founded and led by Jonathan Camilleri Bowman (Founder & CEO), a sim racer and technology entrepreneur with a background in fintech and payments. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathancamilleribowman.
The company is based in Malta, in the European Union, and operates worldwide. General and press enquiries: hello@podiumos.com.
The core team combines sim-racing operators with payments, compliance and platform engineering experience, working alongside external partners on the SimHub plugin, the Windows agent and the native iOS and Android apps.
PodiumOS has been in continuous development since 2024 — roughly eighteen months of engineering before public launch, not a landing page with a waitlist.
Delivered to date: verified racing identity with multi-provider sign-in (Google, Apple, Discord, Steam and email); the SimHub plugin and PodiumOS Windows agent for automatic session logging; Rig Intelligence with 101+ catalogued devices and AI hardware detection from photos; a wallet with escrow-backed bookings and multi-rail payouts; a Merchant-of-Record marketplace for setups, coaching and gear; the guardian layer for under-18 drivers; a venue and coach directory; 204 racing circuits mapped with turn guides; a public API gateway at api.podiumos.com with a documented mobile API; and native iOS and Android apps in build.
Public launch is October 2026 at the SimRacing Expo in Frankfurt. Ahead of launch, 366 sim-racing centres have been identified across 92 countries as the venue onboarding pipeline, and a Founding Ambassador programme is recruiting 1,000 racers and creators. Identified centres are a mapped pipeline, not signed partners — we publish named partners only once agreements are in place.
Racer accounts are free forever. PodiumOS earns on completed transactions: a platform fee on paid coaching and marketplace sales, plus payment processing at cost.
PodiumOS (podiumos.com) is a sim-racing platform and is not affiliated with Podium Inc. (podium.com) of Utah, podium.live, Podium Talent, or any other company using the Podium name. Our products carry the PodiumOS name: PodiumOS.ID, PodiumOS.Pay, PodiumOS.Rewards, PodiumOS.Commerce and PodiumOS.Hub.