Beta Testing Threshold
Before You Test The House
You are not evaluating perfection. You are helping us discern whether the House feels clear, safe, beautiful, and useful.
Please test the experience as a first-time walker, not as a feature auditor. The question is simple: does the public threshold lead naturally into the private chamber, and does the chamber help you return?
What To Test
Four signals matter most.
Clarity
Do I know where I am?
Notice any place where the next step is unclear, the language is too dense, or the site-to-app transition feels abrupt.
Emotional Safety
Does it stay bounded?
Watch for anything that feels too intimate too soon, clinically confusing, spiritually coercive, or heavier than the app can hold.
Usefulness
Did one thing help me return?
A sentence, a practice, a Keeper reply, or a simple sense of orientation is enough signal.
Friction
Where did I hesitate?
Name slow moments, repeated decisions, setup confusion, awkward copy, or places you wanted a simpler button.
Known Boundaries
This is a private-walk test.
Please do not evaluate what is intentionally outside the launch journey.
The beta includes the public threshold, the House app, Movement One, Today, Practice, Becoming, Keeper, Trust & Safety, Feedback, and Erase controls.
Circle, peer rooms, shared-road features, and deeper recovery surfaces are not part of this launch test. They need their own consent, moderation, reporting, and harm-review work before they open.
The Five-Minute First Walk
Do this first, before exploring.
- Enter the House.
- Use the recommended beta defaults: local memory on, Companion Mode on, account recommended if available.
- Open Movement One and read the first available threshold.
- Keep one sentence, then visit Today or Practice.
- Ask the Keeper one honest question.
- Send feedback as soon as something is clear, confusing, unsafe, or worth preserving.
Human Help First
Some moments should leave the screen.
If testing surfaces self-harm, danger to someone else, overdose, severe withdrawal, abuse, or the feeling that someone cannot stay safe, the right outcome is not deeper app use. The right outcome is human care.
That is part of what you are testing: whether the House knows when to step back.