Status
What is built, what is proven, and what is not.
Built code earns no credit here until its user-visible evidence exists. This page is deliberately less flattering than a roadmap.
Current status · 7 September 2026
What exists, what is still being proven, and what is only planned.
Veldrun is pre-release software. This is the product boundary today — not a list of features implied by a future plan. Roughly three quarters of the Windows release is substantiated: four of eight release gates are fully evidenced and four are half-credited, because built code earns no credit here until its user-visible proof exists.
Archive search and source review
Windows ingestion and folder watching, OCR for scanned PDFs and photographed letters, audio and video transcription, local indexing and retrieval, source-linked answers, review screens, redaction with an owner-only reveal map, timeline and entity search, and account foundations all exist and run daily in the development build.
Measured 29 August 2026: 3,822 automated tests passing, none failing. The developer's own install holds 80,562 indexed passages of real legal and medical records — the same document types this is built for.
Four gates are only partial
OCR and media edge cases — printed pages, read speech and the video pipeline now have published measurements, while image descriptions and poor-capture conditions still do not; redaction quality against a stratified cross-domain corpus; signed Windows installation, update and quit; and a real two-computer walkthrough still need their declared evidence.
The redaction numbers that do exist are published in full, with their method and their gaps, on the evidence page.
Later product directions
Mobile apps, managed backup and hosted-model analysis are roadmap ideas — not current capabilities or offers. Mac and Linux editions are planned work rather than speculation, but neither exists yet and neither has a date. Managed sync and companion access are planned; not a current capability.
Today, and at release
The same seven questions, answered twice. The left column is what a person installing Veldrun this week actually gets.
| Question | Today | At release |
|---|---|---|
| Which operating systems? | Windows only. | Windows first, with Mac and Linux to follow. One platform gets proved properly before the work spreads across three. |
| How many machines can share one archive? | One, in practice. Pairing is built and tested in pieces but has never been run end to end on two real machines. | Several, proven end to end through restart, offline, reconnect, revoke and repair. |
| Does Windows warn when installing? | Yes. The download's SHA-256 is published beside the link and verified after transfer, but the binary is not code-signed. | No. A signed installer. |
| Has anyone outside audited the security? | No. An internal adversarial review in July 2026 fixed two high-severity and one medium-severity finding. | A third-party penetration test, completed before anyone is asked for money. |
| Do answers read names on every machine? | No. The map from placeholders back to real names is deliberately not synced, so a second computer shows a placeholder where the first shows a name. | Names readable across the organisation, or the current behaviour kept deliberately and explained. This is a privacy decision, not a bug. |
| Is the trust-weighted ranking better than ordinary search? | Unproven. The machinery is built, but two of its three inputs are still constant on a real archive, so the advantage cannot yet be measured. | Demonstrably better, measured against a plain-similarity baseline. |
| Can you buy it? | No. There is no registered seller, so nothing on this site is an offer. | Yes, with a named seller, published terms and commercial terms settled before payment opens. |
Veldrun has no customers. Every quality figure published anywhere on this site comes from a public research corpus or from the developer's own archive — never from a customer's documents.
Questions
Practical questions
What hardware do I actually need?
The current release target is a Windows PC — Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. There is no complete or supported Mac or Linux product build yet. A macOS OCR helper exists in development, which is a start and not a Mac edition of Veldrun.
Mac and Linux are planned. Windows is first because it is where most of the firms we are building for actually work, and because proving eight release gates on one platform is achievable in a way that proving them on three is not. We would rather ship one supported thing than three unsupported ones. There is no date, and we will not invent one — but if you are on macOS or Linux, join the early access list and say which. That is the signal that decides the order.
Beyond that: a machine that stays on, with roughly 16 GB of memory — 32 GB if your archive runs to tens of thousands of documents. A GPU can accelerate some local work but is not the current baseline requirement. These are development targets, not a performance guarantee; clean-PC and installed performance evidence must pass before sales open.
Can I use it on my phone?
Not as a supported product today. Mobile capture and remote query are roadmap work. The account, pairing and encrypted relay foundations exist, but the real two-PC walkthrough and mobile companion have not passed release acceptance.
What happens to my documents if the project stops?
The current design leaves original documents in ordinary files on your own disks. Proposed licence and subscription continuity terms are not binding offers yet; the final seller and terms will be published before any payment is accepted.