Download The Director

1. FM27: double-click the .pkg and follow the installer (it asks for your Mac's password, like any installer). If Steam is running it is quit while FM27's launch option is written.
2. Open Steam and start Football Manager 27. The first start takes a minute or two longer. If FM needs double clicks on that first start, quit it and start it again.
3. Press fn+F7, or click the DoF chip in FM's top bar. To uninstall: ~/Applications/ImmersiveFM/Uninstall The Director.command.

FM26 on a Mac: unzip, right-click Install The Director.command and choose Open (on macOS 15 and newer: System Settings, Privacy & Security, Open Anyway). The Mac install uses DadMych's community loader on Apple silicon, set up for you by the installer, with ImmersiveFM's fixes for FM27. The README says what it changes and how to remove it.

Delete winhttp.dll from the FM26 folder. The game runs clean again; the rest of the files are inert without it. To remove everything, also delete the BepInEx and dotnet folders and doorstop_config.ini. Your saves are untouched: the mod reads them and never writes them.

• Your save file never leaves your machine. Nothing is uploaded, ever.
• When you ask a question, the question and a text briefing the mod builds from your save (squad, targets, budgets, a few hundred lines) go to the model you chose. With the hosted route, that means the ImmersiveFM server, which passes it through OpenRouter to Google's Gemini model and hands back the answer, sent only to providers that do not keep or train on what they are sent. The server keeps a count of your questions and the token totals so your allowance can be tracked. It does not keep the question or the answer. With your own key or Claude Code, nothing touches the ImmersiveFM server at all.
• Checking a pasted code contacts the ImmersiveFM server once. If you link a Patreon account, the server keeps your Patreon name and email so I can help if a code stops working. Nothing else about you.
• No telemetry, no usage ping, no crash reporting. Those are the only connections the mod makes. The loader does not connect either: the support files it would otherwise fetch once are in the zip.
• Everything the mod stores lives in BepInEx\plugins\FMDofProbe: one database per save and your chat threads. Delete the folder and it is gone.
• The log file you may be asked to send, BepInEx\LogOutput.log, records how long each question and answer was, never the text.

FM did not start, or crashed on start.

Delete winhttp.dll and the game runs clean. Then send BepInEx\LogOutput.log to #install-help on the Discord.

Windows Defender removed a file.

Restore it from Defender's protection history and add the FM26 folder as an exclusion. Then tell me the exact wording; it goes on this page.

F7 does nothing.

The panel needs a loaded save. If FM has bound F7 itself, a panel_key.txt in the plugin folder rebinds it. If it worked before and BepInEx\LogOutput.log has not changed since you started FM, exit Steam completely (Steam menu, Exit), open it again and start FM.

He says he has nothing to read.

If you have just saved, give him half a minute. If not, save the game: he reads the save file, not the screen.

He does not know a player I know.

He knows what your scouts know. Nothing hidden is revealed, on purpose.

Mac, Linux, Steam Deck, Game Pass, Epic?

Windows and Mac (Apple silicon) on Steam. Linux and Steam Deck run the Windows zip under Proton with one launch option (the README in the zip has it), but are barely tested. Intel Macs will not work. Game Pass and Epic are unknown.

Non-English FM?

The panel works and a card on the Overview says if your language is untested. Some parsing is English-first; language packs are on the roadmap.

• v0.70.3, 4 November 2026. The Director runs on FM27 on Apple silicon Macs, as an installer signed and notarised by Apple. The first-run interview's board question fits any division (no "Push for Europe" in the National League), and clearer messages when the Claude Code route cannot find Claude Code. Updating keeps your code or key.
• v0.70.2, 1 November 2026. The Claude Code route finds Claude Code wherever it is installed (including inside WSL, or installed while Steam was open), Setup no longer says it is missing when it is there, and his answers on that route no longer start with stray characters. Updating keeps your code or key.
• v0.70.1, 1 November 2026. The Targets card shows your fee and wage ceilings straight away, not only after the Setup tab has been opened. Updating keeps your code or key.
• v0.70.0, 1 November 2026. The Director front of mind on FM27: a DoF chip in FM's top bar with what is new on his desk, his verdict on FM's player profiles, a first-run interview that sets your save up in three questions, Targets, Squad and Overview as FM-style tables, a depth chart, a plan for each transfer window, and every FM27 In Possession role to shortlist for. A new calm charcoal look. Your own Anthropic key works with Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Fable, which think whatever they are told. The wage budget no longer reads £1 on some saves. Updating keeps your code or key.
• v0.69.0, 29 October 2026. Football Manager 27: the loader for FM27's Unity, the panel on FM27's screen, the wage budget where FM27 keeps it, the Setup tab's cursor and route marks. Windows, and a Mac beta. Staff attributes are not read from FM27 saves yet. The FM26 build is unchanged.
• v0.68.2, 1 October 2026. Long careers: every player and member of staff on a save many seasons in, where some were missing. Contract dates for deals signed in your save. Your own key with a model that thinks (Gemini and others) no longer comes back with no answer. Updating keeps your code or key.
• v0.67.3, the first public release, Windows and Mac. A DoF who sounds like one: new chat rules and a new hosted model chosen in a blind test; the league table, your currency, your keyboard layout, nationalities, and saves many seasons deep, all from three weeks of testers' reports.
• v0.63.4 to v0.67.2, 7 to 24 September 2026. Closed testing: about 25 builds for around 20 testers on Windows and Mac.