Progress you can see. Know-how we keep protected.

The macOS release now connects plan choice, verified account, checkout, private download, and one-Mac activation.

• SideQuesto is signed, notarized by Apple, and packaged as a private DMG for the Mac beta.
• Dex and Pip can follow simultaneous projects while keeping project context separate and repository access read-only.
• Free members receive the download after email verification; paid members receive it after Stripe confirms payment or an eligible annual trial.
• The founder dashboard now shows six calm onboarding milestones, so help can arrive at a stalled step without bombarding a new member.
• The release passed 183 automated Swift tests plus signing, integrity, privacy-boundary, and Gatekeeper checks.

Annual-trial eligibility is checked across account, customer, payment method, and prior-trial history; every plan activates one Mac at a time.

SideQuesto moved from simply reporting activity toward explaining consequence, context, and the most useful next step.

• Dex and Pip now produce clearer context cards for important answers, failures, approvals, and completed work.
• The Research Lab separates narration from final answers and only accepts material from a deliberately consented session.
• Participants can review, export, or delete contributed research material without sharing source code, prompts, commands, or project archives.
• SideQuesto passed its local 100-case L2 preflight across context, consequence, coaching, safety, and access.

L2 is an internal product benchmark, not an independent certification or a score about any member.

The new website explains the product, companions, onboarding, plans, and privacy boundaries in one place.

• A new product story shows how SideQuesto keeps people connected to work happening in Codex and Claude.
• Plan comparisons now explain local voice, hosted voice allowances, annual savings, and the private-beta path.
• Privacy, Terms, Billing, refund, and cookie information are published as readable first-class pages.
• Website analytics remain off until a visitor grants permission, with consent choices available again from the footer.

The companion experience now prioritizes meaning over mechanical status narration.

• Smart narration focuses on consequential progress, blockers, approvals, and finished answers instead of reading every event.
• Focus and mute controls keep text available even when speech is paused, and hosted voice falls back safely to on-device Apple voice.
• Companion movement, reset behavior, narration history, and explicit voice previews are more predictable.
• Keyboard-first controls and reduced-motion behavior improve access for people who do not rely on a pointer or animation.

The first private-beta foundation established a distinct product, release boundary, and companion identity.

• SideQuesto launched with Dex and Pip as visible, audible companions for supported Codex and Claude activity on macOS.
• The event boundary was minimized so companions can explain work without collecting prompts, source code, command history, or tool results.
• A private-beta acceptance runbook introduced stop-ship rules for privacy failures, signing problems, unexpected permissions, speech control, and updater integrity.
• Onboarding began adapting detail, tone, and coding experience to the person using the app.