Taking part in the Alpha.

The privacy notice and this page

When you apply, you are shown the notice published with the application form — a dated notice with its own revision, naming who operates the Orcheri Alpha and the contact for questions about your data. Its revision is recorded with your application.

This page describes participation. The privacy notice describes information handling; neither claims to settle the legal questions listed below.

Alongside the notice, the request carries two optional choices — launch news by email, and taking part in optional Alpha product-learning activity — both off unless you turn them on, and neither affecting your request or your access. Those are the only other things the form asks you to agree to: it asks for no confidentiality undertaking and no separate contract.

The desktop app adds one more optional choice of its own, Help improve Orcheri: unchecked in Setup, changeable at any time in Settings → Privacy & data, and separate from the request's choices, which are never converted into it. It has its own Product Learning notice, shown in Setup and in the app. Declining it does not affect installation, activation, updates or ordinary use. What it shares, and what it never includes.

The Alpha is free, and this is what that means

• No card, no plan, no token bundle. Orcheri charges nothing for a place in the Private Alpha.
• Your AI tools are still billed by their own makers, under your own accounts. There is no Orcheri provider key or billing relay in between. Your providers set their rates and limits. Orcheri adds no provider-usage markup during this Alpha; delegation and review may increase total provider usage.
• What is kept, why, and for how long is set out in the notice published with the application form, which is also where you can ask us to show, correct or delete it.
• This says nothing about price later. No price has been decided.

How access actually works

1. You request a place. Request Free Alpha first explains the Alpha and lets you draft a short application in this browser tab. Then verify or create your Orcheri account, choosing email or Google where offered, return to review your answers and explicitly submit. Signing in alone does not submit a request. Use the same method for an existing account; switching methods does not merge accounts just because their email addresses match.
2. A person reads it. Not a filter, not a score. Your request can be approved, put on the waitlist, or not offered a place — and you can withdraw it yourself at any time, and apply again later.
3. Approval binds to your account, at the address you verified. An invitation, where one is used, is for that one address, works for seven days, and is never sent again automatically — a safety measure rather than an obstacle.
4. You set up each PC deliberately. Installing Orcheri does not do it, and neither does opening an email or downloading anything. Set up this PC is a separate, authenticated act you perform in the app, and it sends nothing about your Rooms. Your PCs are listed in your account and you can remove any of them.

Each PC keeps its own Rooms. Signing in on a second machine gives you access there; it does not copy your work across.

If your access is paused or ends

If the Orcheri team pauses or ends your Alpha access:

• Your Rooms stay on your PCs. Rooms, conversations, memory, decisions and files are local files in your own Windows profile, and nothing reaches in to remove them. Your AI tools send what they work on to their own providers, under your accounts — what goes where.
• You can still open it, back it up and export it. Backup, restore and exporting a handoff are not gated behind your account state. What stops is starting new work.
• Support stays. A paused or ended Alpha grant does not close your support thread, so you can still ask what happened.
• Removing a PC — yours or ours — stops that PC starting new work the next time it checks in, and at the latest when its access runs out. Its Rooms and files stay on it.

If you want to leave: withdraw your application, or ask us to remove what we hold. The privacy contact in the notice published with the application form is the address for that.

What we ask of you

Two things, neither of them a quota.

• Use it on work that matters to you. Real work is where the useful problems show up, so that is where we learn the most.
• Tell us what happened. What helped, what confused you, what broke. From Help & feedback in the app, or your account, whichever is nearer. How to reach us.

Feedback is voluntary. You retain ownership of your content. We may use suggestions you choose to share to improve Orcheri; participation does not assign your content to Orcheri or create an exclusive arrangement.

The Alpha is deliberately small, so that what participants say can still change the product.

Early software, practically speaking

Orcheri is useful today: teams of agents in Orcheri plan, build, review and revise real work. It is also an Alpha, which means you will meet rough edges, and occasionally something will not behave as it should. Three practical habits:

• Keep your own version control. A project Room points at your folder and your Git history is yours. That history, not Orcheri, is your undo.
• Remember what a backup covers. An Orcheri backup holds Orcheri's own record and the files Orcheri owns. A project folder or repository outside it is listed as not included. Backups, restores and handoffs.
• Read the result card. Orcheri distinguishes a teammate reporting success from a check verifying something, and both from your own judgment about whether to rely on the result — a decision that stays yours, not a button in the app. Those are three different things, and the difference matters most when you are in a hurry.

The Alpha will also change under you: new builds arrive in your account and Orcheri tells you when one is available to you, surfaces move, and at some point the Alpha will end and become whatever Orcheri is next. Messages about your own access come to you as a matter of course.

What is not settled yet

• The installer is not publisher-signed. Windows will say the publisher is unknown, and the file name itself says so. Why, and what to do.
• There is no published response time for support, and no service commitment. What you write reaches the people building Orcheri.
• Orcheri publishes no general terms of service, warranty statement or liability document today, and this page does not stand in for one. The privacy notice describes how the service handles information, and it says of itself that it sets out an Alpha's initial policies rather than a claim of legal sufficiency in any jurisdiction.
• Nothing here is legal advice, and none of it changes what your AI providers' own terms say about the work you send through them.