Phantom Orbit Labs Martium
About

We got tired of re-explaining ourselves

Phantom Orbit Labs is a small team building Martium — a memory layer that watches engineering work happen, instead of asking engineers to summarize it after the fact.

Our Story

Why we built this

The idea for Martium didn't come from a market report. It came from the same afternoon repeating itself: open an AI assistant, paste in three files of context, explain what you were debugging, get an answer, close the tab — and do it again the next day, because the tool never remembered any of it.

Zoom out and the same thing was happening everywhere on the team. A ticket would say what needed to happen but not why the previous attempt failed. A teammate would ask "didn't we already try this?" and the honest answer was: probably, but nobody could say where that decision lived. A person would leave the team and take eighteen months of undocumented reasoning with them.

None of that is a tooling gap you fix with a better wiki. Wikis go stale the moment someone stops updating them, and nobody updates them mid-debugging-session. The information was never missing — it was live, in commits and tickets and terminals and calls, and it disappeared the second nobody wrote it down.

So we built something that doesn't wait to be written down. Martium watches the work as it happens — on-device, text-first, privacy-first — and turns it into a memory the whole team can query later. You think. Martium remembers.

Naming

Why "Phantom Orbit" and "Martium"

The space theme isn't decoration — it's how we think about the product's two knowledge layers.

Phantom Orbit Labs

A phantom orbit is a stable path something settles into around a body it's gravitationally bound to — quietly persistent, always there, rarely noticed. That's the role we want the company's tools to play around your work.

Deimos

One of Mars's two moons. In Martium, Deimos is your personal knowledge layer — the smaller, closer, more personal orbit: your own activity, your own history.

Phobos

Mars's other moon, larger and closer still. In Martium, Phobos is your team's shared knowledge layer — company-wide context pulled from the tools your team already uses.

Martium itself is Mars, the body both moons orbit — the product at the center that Deimos and Phobos both feed into.

What We Believe

Principles we build against

Context over configuration

If a tool needs to be taught who you are every session, it isn't actually helping — it's delegating memory back to you.

Privacy by construction

Data minimization and PII scrubbing happen before storage, not as a setting you have to discover and enable.

Local-first when possible

Your activity should live on your machine by default. Company knowledge is shared deliberately, not by accident.

Built by developers, for developers

Every founder here has been the person re-explaining themselves to a tool that forgot them. We're building the thing we wanted.

The Team

Built by three founders

All three of us met the problem firsthand, then decided to fix it. (Full bios and photos coming as we come out of stealth — for now, here's who does what.)

CT

Founder Name

CEO & CTO

Builds the core product — architecture, orchestration, and agent design.

CO

Founder Name

COO

Runs operations and the company's product-facing presence.

CF

Founder Name

CFO

Owns pricing strategy, market analysis, and the numbers.

Want to try it before anyone else?

We're onboarding testers in small batches during early access.