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The beta
The public beta ran from v0.2.0 on August 12 to v0.2.10 on September 11, on macOS and Linux. Eleven releases in a month. Each one shipped the whole workbench: every engine, every provider, local models, Venice, fleet, bots and squads.
People ran it on real work and wrote back. The notes were specific and generous, and there were more of them than we expected. Thank you.
What we learned
The part people kept naming was the route: the engine, the provider and the privacy tier, in view where the work happens. That is what they asked us to protect.
The notes also pointed at a few ideas about what a workbench should do for the person running it. They need time, and a small group using them on real work, before we say more.
The split
Every session on Venice's private tier. Five engines: Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Kimi Code and Grok Build. Nothing routes anywhere you did not turn on.
Every engine, including Cursor and Prime Agent. Local models through Ollama and LM Studio. Direct providers. Fleet, bots and squads.
The free workbench is where we contribute first: private tooling that puts ownership back with the person doing the work. Pro goes into three months of private build. We will describe it when it exists.
After the beta
The beta downloads and release page go private. An installed beta keeps working. It will not get updates.
Getting Pro
Pro has no public download. Email hello@dranz.ai and say what you would do with it. A person reads every message. We are choosing a small user study group to build Pro with, and that group gets it.
What's next
The first release of the free workbench is v0.1.1. The number restarts because it is a new line. The changelog picks up from there.
The source opens under MIT at v0.1.10, after ten releases. Ten releases is enough evidence that it does what we say: privacy that holds, a turn that runs on the model you picked, a build that installs on machines that are not ours.
Opening a repository is also a promise to look after it. We would rather open late than leave a good patch waiting a year. So the triage tooling comes first. We will say here when the source opens.