nwhitehouse bets the whole fork on one house model

No model picker, no API keys, no choice - every user now talks to a single in-house assistant called Olava.

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nwhitehouse has made a hard product call: rip out the menu of third-party AI engines and run the whole thing on one proprietary model. Where users could previously pick between competing providers, there's now nothing to choose - the option to bring your own model and the settings screens behind it have been deleted outright.

The interesting part is the safety net. Old accounts that still remember a now-removed provider don't break or throw errors; the system quietly redirects them to the single house model and carries on. Everything that used to carry the old working name has been rebranded to Olava - the assistant introduces itself that way, and it signs its tracked changes in exported documents under that name too.

So what Anyone weighing a single-vendor legal assistant over a configurable one should look here - it's a clean example of trading flexibility for a locked-down, no-decisions product.

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SHA Subject Author Date
cef8954a Pre-launch polish: Olava-001 sole model, Finch→Olava brand, onit.com legal links Nick Whitehouse 2026-05-01 ↗ GitHub
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- Strip Anthropic + Gemini from model picker; only "Olava-001" (id stays olava-extract)
- Defaults across frontend + backend now route to olava-extract
- Server-side coercion: any non-Olava model id rewritten to default, defends against stale localStorage / DB rows
- Drop API-key input UI from /account/models; updateApiKey removed (no callers)
- Rename Finch→Olava in titles, sidebar, logo, system prompts, DOCX author, Workflows source column, search class names
- Signup terms→onit.com/services-agreement/, privacy→onit.com/privacy-cookies/

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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