What the Beta Pill Means — and why it now sits on one flow only

For a long time a small bronze pill sat beside our wordmark on every page, quietly reading Beta. It has come off — not because a marketing meeting decided beta sounded less impressive than 1.0, but because it had stopped being true of most of the app.

The pill still exists. It just says something narrower and more useful now: designing from a plan is in beta. You'll find it on the "Design from a plan" shortcut in your account menu, and inside the upload and results pages for a floor plan or a land plot. Nowhere else.

This is what that means.

Why one flow and not the whole app

A tag on the wordmark is a claim about everything under it. That was honest when almost every spell was new. It isn't any more — the room redesigner, sketch-to-render, virtual staging, the Studio and the Kiln have all been in real hands for long enough that calling them beta was doing you a disservice, not a courtesy.

Reading an architectural drawing is a different matter. It is the hardest thing we do, and the only surface where we still expect you to occasionally correct us.

Concretely, "beta" now means:

• The core flow works. Upload a plan or a plot, analyze, design, render, walk through, export — every step is wired end-to-end, from a drawing to a shareable design.
• The geometry is a read, not a measurement. A DXF file comes back at the exact millimetre you uploaded. A photo, a sketch, or a PDF blueprint is interpreted: room sizes and shapes can come back needing a nudge. That's why every one of them is yours to correct on the canvas — the openings editor, the merge/split/resize tools, and a per-room rename are all there for exactly this.
• We want to hear from you. When a room comes back the wrong size, or a wall lands where no wall is, that note goes straight to the small team building this — and it's how we decide what to sharpen next.

What it doesn't mean

A few worries worth setting aside, because beta gets conflated with all sorts of things it isn't.

• It doesn't mean your data is at risk. Designs land in private, encrypted storage tied to your account. Beta touches how well we read a drawing; storage and authentication are stable, and have been since day one.
• It doesn't mean the flow is half-broken. Most visitors get a full room-by-room brief on the first try. The tag is honesty about accuracy on hard inputs, not a warning label.
• It doesn't mean you're paying to test. The free tier exists precisely so you can decide a spell works for you before you commit.
• It doesn't mean payments are risky. Subscribe, upgrade, and pay just as you would on any production site. Checkout is fully encrypted, billing rides our trusted payments partner, and your card details never touch our servers.

How to share feedback

The Beta notice on the upload and results pages carries the link, and the feedback view is one tap from your account menu at any time. Attach a screenshot, name the room that came back wrong, and we'll see it directly.

We read every note. We can't promise to ship every request, but the ones we do come straight from these messages — the home-screen install guide, the per-room palette card, and the visitor-editable openings overlay all began life as a feedback whisper.

Why we're not hiding it

We could have dropped the tag altogether and said nothing. Keeping it, scoped, sets a clearer contract than either extreme: we owe you honesty about the one surface that can still get a number wrong, and you owe us a heads-up when it does.

When the pill eventually comes off this flow too, it'll be because a drawing you upload comes back right often enough that the warning has stopped earning its place.

The short version

Beta no longer means "this app". It means "this plan reading". Everywhere else, what you see is what we stand behind. On a plan, check the sizes — and if one is off, tell us.

In the meantime, conjure something new — or, if you've already started, find your way back to the gallery. The next iteration is always closer than it looks.