First testing · a few riders at a time

Riding the first builds

Cado works or it doesn't on your phone, in your pocket, on your bike — combinations it can't meet any other way. That's what testing is: ride normally, and tell us when something surprises you.

Joining takes one email

1

Email cadoreports@gmail.com with the Google account address your phone uses for the Play Store.

2

You'll get an invite link back. Open it, accept, and install Cado from the Play Store like any other app.

3

That's it. New builds arrive through Play automatically. Then read the first ride guide — placement is the one thing worth getting right.

What we're listening for

No scripts, no checklists. Ride as you normally would, and notice these:

The first ride
Did it just work — GO, pocket, voice — with no briefing? If anything made you hesitate, that's a finding.
Honesty
Cado must never speak a number while you're stopped or coasting. If it ever does, we want that ride's log.
Placement & kit
Jersey back pockets especially — the newest placement. Tell us what you wore and where the phone rode.
Battery
The summary shows what each ride cost in charge. An hour should stay under about 10% — tell us if it doesn't.

Sending feedback

In Cado: Settings → Report a bug or Request a feature. Either opens your own email app with a message ready to complete — app version, phone model and your current settings are filled in for you, visible and editable. Nothing is sent until you press send.

For anything about detection — wrong numbers, no lock, a number while coasting — attach the ride log: Summary → Share ride, and send the file wherever suits you. Or write to cadoreports@gmail.com directly; there is no wrong door.

Why your ride logs matter

A ride log is a plain file on your phone: every cadence reading, every state change, the battery curve. It holds no location, no name, no account — there's nothing of those to hold. It's yours; sharing one is always your choice, ride by ride.

When you share one, it becomes a permanent test case: every future build of the engine must get your ride right before it ships. A handful of riders sharing logs is how a two-person test programme gets the coverage of a big one.

They're also worth keeping for yourself. Hand a log to an AI assistant like Claude or ChatGPT and it can time-sync the ride with a Polar H10 or Strava recording — how your cadence moved with heart rate or gradient. The FAQ has the how.

Know a rider who'd like this?

Send them the front page — it makes the pitch in thirty seconds, no tester jargon. If they're keen, one email adds them. Riders you bring in count double: new phones and new pockets are the coverage we can't buy.

See what they'll see