Why the beta is open now
The short answer
Kit has gone as far as one builder and a handful of testers can take it. The next step is a technical partner to help finish the build and investment to pay for it, or opening the source so others can carry it. Every one of those conversations starts with the same question: does anyone use it? A public beta answers that honestly, and what you report decides what gets built next.
It holds up now
The private beta was small, and it earned its keep. Testers ran Kit on their own work and found the failures we could not see from here: person cards that turned a company's name into someone's surname, cards that mixed a client with the same firm's handling of your own money, and health warnings that said something was wrong without saying what. Each was reported carefully, traced to its cause and fixed in the last three releases.
Kit is not finished. But the faults that would make a stranger give up on the first day are the ones we have closed.
What a few testers cannot find
Every tester brings a different Mac, a different mailbox and different tools. One tester's German ß quietly broke names in a way nobody else would have met. The next problems are like that: they live in data and habits we do not have, and only more people will find them.
What is in place first
We did not want to open the door before these were true:
- Your memory stays on your Mac. The app is signed, notarised and ships compiled.
- The beta terms have been reviewed, and Kit asks you to agree to them once.
- Kit's model comes with $5 a month of use, an introductory offer, under a shared ceiling so the cost cannot run away. When it runs out, Kit says so and pauses its dreaming until it renews. You can bring your own key, or a model that runs on your Mac, at any time.
- A short daily health report reaches us with your name, your email and your Kit's name, never your memories, messages or files, and you can turn it off in Settings.
- There are 25 places. After that, the site takes requests, and we will be in touch.
Better in the open
Something that keeps your memory should be built where you can watch it and correct it. The known limits say plainly what is not true yet, and these notes say what we got wrong and how we fixed it. A public beta is the same promise, made to more people.
What we ask
Install it, use it on your real work, and tell us when it is wrong. The feedback button in the app reaches Peter, and replies are written by Kit and read by Peter before they go.