nwhitehouse locks the fork to a single AI engine

The fork formerly known as Finch is now Olava - and it only talks to one model.

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nwhitehouse has stripped every other AI provider out of this fork. The model picker, which used to let users choose between Anthropic's Claude and Google's Gemini, now offers exactly one option: Olava-001. Even if a returning user has an older model saved in their browser, the server quietly rewrites the request to use Olava anyway.

The "bring your own API key" screen is gone too. Users don't supply credentials anymore - the Olava endpoint is wired in at the infrastructure level, and that's the only path in. Alongside the lockdown, the team finished a full rename from Finch to Olava across the interface, sidebar, logo, exported documents, and the legal links in signup. It reads less like a fork experimenting with AI and more like a product getting ready to ship.

So what If you're watching this fork to see where it's heading commercially, this is the moment it stopped looking like a research project and started looking like a launch.

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cef8954a Pre-launch polish: Olava-001 sole model, Finch→Olava brand, onit.com legal links Nick Whitehouse 2026-05-01 ↗ GitHub

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
commit body - 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>

commit body

- 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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