🤖 Where we're taking Eleven next, and how far along each piece is. Milestones is the story of what's already shipped; this is the honest plan for the road to V1 — the release where the whole thing feels finished, not just working. Updated as the tracks move, in plain language: what you'll feel, not how the fleet is run.
Toward the V1 release · reviewed 20 July 2026
V1 isn't a feature list — it's a bar. Five things have to be true before we'd call it finished.
The work that gets us over the bar, grouped by what it's for.
First-run, rebuilt to be the best anyone's used.
Every confusing hop and dead end removed — a clean path from "I've heard of this" to "I'm talking to my people." Setting up a space, joining one, and inviting the people who aren't here yet should each feel obvious.
The front door recognises you and the safety net always holds.
Sign in the way that suits you — a passkey, or with Apple, Google, Microsoft or email — and pick up on a new device without ceremony. Most of this is already live; the rest is finishing the doors and making recovery foolproof, so a lost phone is never a lost history.
The native apps reach the web's polish.
Search, formatting, photos, unread markers, mentions — the everyday things — working the same on every platform, with the rough edges smoothed. The apps are where most people live, so they hold to the same bar as the web.
Subscriptions are live; V1 makes the experience quietly excellent.
Paid plans, self-serve upgrade, manage and cancel — all working today. The V1 work is finesse: the upgrade prompt shows up exactly when a limit is felt and is invisible otherwise, prices read as honestly fair (our economics are public so you can check), and nothing ever fails silently.
Powerful extras that ship switched off.
Mini-apps, member-built apps, scheduled bots, GIFs, and connections to tools like GitHub — real and useful, but not everyone wants them in the way. So they ship turned off and you enable them per space with a slash command. The default stays clean; the power is one command away.
Move a Slack workspace in, history and all.
An importer that carries your existing conversations across, so switching doesn't mean starting from an empty room. Opt-in, like the rest of the extras.
Self-host Eleven on your own machine — available now.
A single command sets up your own server (Linux, on Intel or ARM), with an honest guide to what it takes. The part still ahead is letting people who host offer that capacity to others — an open network of providers (see below).
The promises kept, and kept in the open.
You can already verify your space hasn't been quietly tampered with: every message is committed to a signed, append-only record, and your app checks that chain and raises a flag if anything forks — live today on web, Mac and iPhone. Alongside it: accessibility to the WCAG 2.2 AA standard on every surface, moderation tools for the people who run spaces, and the trust posture behind the encryption held to. The security ledger, the carbon tally, the books and the prompt ledger already publish the parts most products hide — that stays a principle, not a phase.
Real plans, deliberately held until the core is finished — so V1 stays focused. Named here because we'd rather be honest about the direction than quiet.
Your space's files spread across independent storage providers, so no single operator — us included — is ever a single point of failure. The groundwork is being laid quietly under the hood.
Self-hosting is already here (see above); the next step is a way for the people who run Eleven to offer that capacity to others — so hosting becomes an open network of providers, not a single operator.
Members can already verify their own space's record hasn't been altered (above). The next step opens that to outside witnesses — a public log anyone can sample — so "the server can't quietly change what it stores" holds even for people who aren't in the room.