Who the current Founder Alpha suits, and who should wait.

A good fit today

Founder Alpha is the real app and the real Broker while he is still being built. It suits you now if most of this is true:

• You play on a 64-bit Windows PC with Windows 10 (version 1809 or later) or Windows 11, a working audio output and an internet connection.
• You are a customer in the United States. Founder Alpha is sold to customers in the United States only; the free trial and the informational pages are open to anyone.
• Your game can be captured. Any Windows game the app can capture: fullscreen, borderless or windowed. The app says when a game cannot be watched.
• You want a character who reacts to the game, not a chat tool and not an assistant. He watches what you play, remembers what happened in the session, and speaks when he has something worth saying; you do not type to him and he does not wait to be asked.
• You can live with quiet stretches and wrong lines. Silence is a decision he makes, and a line can be wrong, odd or badly timed; that is part of what Founder Alpha is for.
• If you stream, you use OBS and will say the cohost is AI. One transparent Browser source, his voice through Desktop Audio, and a disclosure to your audience.
• You play in one of the seven supported languages. English, Bosnian Latin, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, with App Language and Broker Language set independently.

Better to wait

Wait, or look elsewhere for now, if any of these is the thing you actually need. None of them is in the current build, and nothing on this page promises when or whether they will be.

• You want him to hear you or talk with you. The app has no microphone input and no chat; there is no conversation.
• You need chat read aloud, alerts or commands. He is not a chat bot or a text-to-speech reader.
• You need his voice on a separate audio track. There is no separate audio track yet; Desktop Audio captures him together with the game.
• Your main games refuse capture or hide overlays. Some anti-cheat protected games refuse capture, and some exclusive-fullscreen games limit the overlay. Borderless or windowed mode is the reliable alternative where the game allows it.
• You need a guaranteed cadence or accuracy. How often he speaks depends on the game, the moment and the service, and AI commentary can misunderstand a scene.
• You switch games mid-session. There is no in-session game switching: STOP, choose the other game in the app, then START.
• You are outside the United States, or not on Windows. Founder Alpha is sold to customers in the United States only, and the app is Windows x64 software.
• You need finished software. Behaviour, wording and features change between builds; a voice outage can end a session, and the app says so.

A five-minute self-check

What the trial can tell you

30 Signal Minutes (exactly 1,800 Signal Seconds), claimed through your eligible account. No card, purchase or subscription required; the trial never silently converts to paid. Signal Time is metered from the Broker’s managed AI work — every look at your game and every spoken line — rather than simply the elapsed time of your gameplay session. Your account shows usage and remaining balance.

That is enough for the ten-minute test in the evaluation method on the game you know best, with one role and one Talkativeness level, and a second run with one thing changed. Access runs through your account: it shows eligibility, and the service currently runs as a controlled pilot in which only invited accounts are admitted; the website says so when yours is not.

What “Alpha” means for you

Early access to a product that is still being built. The current public release is 1.0.0-alpha.12; the release notes say what each build changed. Items marked PLANNED on the offer page are intentions, not promises, and nothing you read here should be taken as one. The Founder Alpha page lists what you get now and what it does not do yet; the pricing page has the membership, and the Signal Time and refund terms say what happens if you change your mind.

Founder Alpha is early-access software; the commentary can be wrong, repeated or badly timed, and it is sold to customers in the United States only.

Limits

• Selection guidance only: it describes the shipped build and promises nothing about later builds, features or dates.
• He does not hear you and does not read chat; the app has no microphone input and no chat.
• No guaranteed cadence: how often he speaks depends on the game, the moment and the service.
• Founder Alpha is early-access software; the commentary can be wrong, repeated or badly timed, and it is sold to customers in the United States only.