Alpha verification

Real-desktop GUI check

A look at the app itself — and a record that its four alpha build gates render and work in the real, installed app on a genuine Windows desktop, not a headless test harness. Every screenshot below is the live app, driven end to end.

Pass · all gates verified 2026-07-31 · master 5355b92 · Windows 11 (x64), interactive session

What was checked

Models
Model acquisition

The speech-to-text model picker with a Download button for a model that isn't present yet, served from intellego.life.

Provider
Provider & key setup

The first-run nudge into Settings, the Test connection button and locality badge — and the button runs a real connection probe.

Capture
Audio-capture onboarding

A fresh install picks a real capture source by default; the picker recommends “Mix” and explains each option's privacy trade-off.

The screens

🌱

Confirmed before a single click

On a genuinely fresh Windows profile, the app wrote its first-run configuration with a real capture default — exactly as intended, no dev fixture:

[capture]
source = "mix"

[ui]
consented = false
Foundation

Consent

The app paints correctly on a real desktop: the intellego window, the full privacy consent, and “Accept & continue”.

intellego consent screen: 'Before you start' privacy copy and an Accept & continue button
Consent screen · 1024×768
ProviderCapture

First-run setup

After accepting, the first run lands on Settings. The banner names your provider and audio source, the Test connection button is present, and the green “Local — transcripts stay on your machine/network” badge reads correctly for a local provider.

intellego Settings on first run: onboarding banner, provider preset, Local locality badge, Test connection button
First-run Settings · provider setup with onboarding copy
CaptureModels

Capture picker & model download

The audio-capture picker defaults to “Mix — all system audio (recommended)” with an honest hint: Mix hears everything you hear, a specific app hears only the other party (never your mic), and File is a built-in test clip. Below it, the model picker offers a Download for a model that isn't installed yet.

intellego Settings: Audio capture set to Mix — all system audio (recommended), guidance hint, and a Download button for the small.en model
Capture picker + speech-to-text model download
ProviderLive

Test connection

Clicking Test connection runs the real path — a request to the configured provider on a background thread, with the result shown inline. With no local model server running it honestly reports provider unreachable for the real endpoint; a green result only needs a reachable provider.

intellego Test connection result: 'provider unreachable: error sending request for url http://localhost:11434/v1/chat/completions'
Test connection result · http://localhost:11434/v1/chat/completions

Notes