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The next 30 days: get it in as many hands as possible and close the feedback loop on every one — a tight loop with diverse testers, not mass distribution, tracking where stickiness emerges. Matt (paying since Jun 11) is still the one proof point; Remix and ETV sit at contract stage, which is exactly the gap the guest-onboarding arc and this month's hands pipeline (Becca, Remix, ETV, Amit, IBM, Microsoft, Chris Perry, Oli) are meant to close.
Since the last board, the Sam Schillace onboarding thesis went from plan to shipped product: the guest-onboarding arc (v2.33–v2.35) put "value before any upload" into the real app — three teaser personas, live RAG with receipts, "Make it yours" instant provisioning, sign-in last. Demo mode's job is nearly done; the parity gap it was built to expose is closing release by release.
Aug 3 put a new signal on the board: IBM's Gabe walked the new flow and called it a different paradigm — a digital twin — then handed over the shape of an enterprise unlock (per-knowledge sensitivity tagging, PII detection at ingestion, tag-based access) that hadn't surfaced this cleanly before. It also sharpens the open-sourcing question, since IBM's own environment can only run what's open-source or publicly shareable.
YC Fall '26 is still waiting — submitted Jul 27, decision expected by Aug 28, no interview scheduled yet.
One object, three altitudes. Every question that needs you now renders from a single manifest at the altitude that fits the moment — a one-line glance in iMessage or Slack, a decide card in the app, or the full work view with the belief shift, every source, and who inherits your answer. Escalation texts read like a person instead of a numbered menu. A thumbs-up or -down on how something was shown
Fixes two import bugs: the free-tier source counter was capping Granola and Obsidian imports at 10 items (it counts connections, not items), and long notes were being truncated at 30,000 characters and then failing to index. Both fixed — reconnect Granola or re-sync Obsidian to pull everything.
Connect can add and remove sources again. Every source you can connect now shows up on the Connect page with a button — Granola, Obsidian, and another Gmail inbox — instead of only listing what was already set up. Each connected source can be disconnected, or removed with a receipt of exactly what the twin forgot.
Bestmate 2.50.0 Download `Bestmate-2.50.0.dmg`, open it, and drag Bestmate to your Applications folder.
Bestmate 2.49.0 Download `Bestmate-2.49.0.dmg`, open it, and drag Bestmate to your Applications folder.
Guest-onboarding arc (beats 1–10) complete, the local-mode multi-twin fix shipped, and Gabe's demo-parity feedback — analytics top-questions, real scope column, findable stores — landed the same day.
"This is a different paradigm — it's a digital twin." Gabe (IBM) saw the new onboarding + full walkthrough; personal second-brain value lands even without sharing.
Plan vs. reality.