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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Each coworker gets a computer of its own: a real browser with its own logins, it
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@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ your own machine.
 
 > **A template, not a product.** OpenBot is meant to be cloned and made your own. There is no hosted version to sign up for, and nothing here is published as a package to depend on: every workspace in this repository is private. You take the repository, replace the example tenant package under `examples/` with your own coworkers, channels and skills, and run it. Everything below describes a starting point, not a finished thing somebody operates for you.
 
-> **Alpha, and under active development.** OpenBot is early. Expect rough edges and bugs, and expect things to move. Issues and pull requests are welcome.
+> **Beta, and under active development.** OpenBot is early. Expect rough edges and bugs, and expect things to move. Issues and pull requests are welcome.
 
 > **Runs on your machine.** Everything below is written for a laptop. `.env.example` carries `OPENBOT_SINGLE_USER=true`, which admits every request as one administrator, so a fresh clone reaches the product without registering an OAuth client first. [Sign-in](#sign-in) turns that off, and is required before anybody else can reach the deployment.