Changelog

Growth Plans evolves deliberately. Updates prioritize clarity, durability, and backwards compatibility over velocity.

September 2026

A clearer path from understanding a capability gap to practicing, collecting evidence, and reflecting on your growth.

  • Homepage scroll checkpoints update the URL as you read. Worked examples carry the current section so you can return to it, without a second navigation bar. Workflow numbers sit beside their headings.
  • A refreshed homepage introduces the product through selectable practice examples, a shorter workflow, a concrete conversation brief, and clearer visual hierarchy.
  • Navigation and level transitions use consistent arrow icons with accessible text labels.
  • Homepage examples now show everyday practice and a simple growth loop. Pricing clearly separates free growth tools from Pro cloud sync, and checkout errors include retry guidance.
  • Cloud sync pauses to protect unsynced local edits and reports failed or conflicting attempts.
  • Temporary billing-service failures preserve subscription records and verified access within the known paid period.
  • Step-two assessment examples are available for foundational, broader, and custom capabilities. Preview both answers before filling empty fields; your own writing is preserved.
  • Start with everyday engineering work: understanding tickets, reading unfamiliar code, systematic debugging, explaining implementations, and testing behavior.
  • Choose the scope of practice for each capability, from understanding one change to reasoning across systems and helping others. Scopes are flexible practice choices, not ranks or job titles.
  • Reflect on independence, unfamiliar contexts, and wider consequences. Then choose to practice again, try a different context, or consider a wider scope in a linked next goal.
  • See how successive practice goals connect while preserving previous learning and evidence. Practice context stays portable through JSON, PDFs, and sync.
  • Prepare a growth conversation before finishing your plan: choose direction, opportunity, or feedback and write one concrete ask.
  • Save a focused brief with only the evidence you select. Copy it or download a conversation PDF; a complete worked example is available before setup.
  • Record what came out of a conversation and your next action. Preview and explicitly choose whether to apply the action and support to your goal.
  • Conversation drafts resume on this device. Saved briefs and outcomes stay in your plan, survive JSON backups and sync, and remain available when a goal continues into another season.
  • Describe what you can do today and what you want to handle better. New capability assessments use your own words, with optional level guides and editable examples.
  • Written assessments carry through growth plans, capability reviews, seasons, and PDF/JSON exports. Existing ratings and level history remain available.
  • A quieter Current work screen shows one focus, one next action, and compact rows for your other goals.
  • Open one goal at a time. Editing, recording updates, reflection, and stopping each have a focused view instead of competing sections.
  • Update drafts survive closing and refreshing. Capture is linked to the goal you opened it from, with keyboard focus restored when you close it.
  • Review history starts collapsed. Choose one season or all seasons for a matching PDF export; settings and backups stay out of daily work.
  • Start from feedback or a situation you want to improve, with concrete practice examples and one next action.
  • Resume unfinished setup after closing or refreshing, and mark an uncertain starting point as provisional.
  • Record quick updates, organize them into goals later, and see your focus for this week.
  • Stop or redirect a goal without losing evidence, then create a follow-up for the same capability.
  • Review your actual learning and evidence by season, with matching PDF organization and preserved unassigned updates.
  • Behavioral level guides and repeatable goal setup make it easier to choose a starting point and a practical next step.
  • Resources and practice contexts save as you type, including when leaving the goal editor.
  • Season review reuses your saved reflections and evidence. Continue unfinished goals into a named new season while preserving previous records.
  • Deferred capability reviews remain available on completed goals. Current work and earlier history are easier to distinguish.
  • Start with a guided three-step setup: choose an editable example or your own capability, set your baseline and target, and create a practical goal with success criteria.
  • Create or open a linked growth goal directly from your assessment. Contextual links connect your assessment and plan.
  • New goals open with a short preview and clear requirements for starting. Active goals lead with your next action; reflection becomes the next step when your criteria are complete.
  • Improved phone layouts, scrolling, field labels, and keyboard controls. Success criteria now wrap across lines, and priority is easier to select.
  • Edits save on your device without a delay that could lose your last change when switching pages. Save failures now show recovery guidance.
  • Download PDFs directly from the editor, with progress and retry feedback. JSON import now explains replacement behavior and recovers from invalid files without reusing an earlier selection.
  • Added confirmation before deleting capabilities or evidence entries. Adding goals preserves existing work, and completed milestones retain their original snapshots.
  • Existing plans, legacy imports, JSON exports, and PDF generation remain compatible. Core assessment and goal workflows remain free and local-first.

February 2026

February focused on making growth seasonal, stateful, and longitudinal without breaking existing artifacts.

  • Added an explicit season loop for Skill Gap Analysis: active/closed seasons, a deliberate close ritual, and next-season setup from prior snapshots.
  • Introduced season carry-forward decisions when starting a new season: carry, retarget, archive, or add new capability areas.
  • Goal completion now triggers an in-app re-baseline prompt for linked capability areas, with progression history appended over time.
  • Added a longitudinal capability progression view across seasons, including baseline, re-baseline, and season-close checkpoints.
  • Added guided first-run onboarding to establish initial capability areas, choose season timeframe, and promote the first area into execution.
  • Added calm identity framing to reinforce engineer ownership in SGA and season workflows.
  • Refined season language and UI framing to be explicitly independent of company performance cycles across SGA and EGP.
  • Strengthened the close-season ritual with impact summary signals and a post-close milestone confirmation moment.
  • Upgraded the season-close reflection into three focused prompts to produce clearer, more durable growth records across seasons.
  • Added local-first suggested reflection drafts in Season Close to reduce blank-page friction while preserving full user ownership of final language.
  • Improved season-close summary accuracy so completed-work and reflection context are scoped to the active season.
  • Added a season summary block to PDF exports when a close reflection exists, improving artifact usefulness over time.
  • Refined the close-season modal scrolling behavior to keep long reflections readable on smaller viewports.
  • Added a gentle in-product execution nudge when active seasons go idle.
  • Introduced a stateful EGP execution lifecycle: Draft, Active, and Completed goals.
  • Success criteria now support completion state and progress tracking, turning goals into active execution loops instead of static plans.
  • Goal completion now requires explicit user action with clear completion requirements and a reflection checkpoint.
  • Added a dedicated Completed Goals milestone section with richer discussion-ready snapshots (goal context, reflection, criteria, and work log evidence).
  • Upgraded Experience Sharing into timestamped log entries to better capture ongoing execution over time.
  • Improved completed-goal scanning with search, sorting, and more informative summary cards.
  • No breaking changes. Legacy data, exports/imports, sync, and PDF outputs remain backwards compatible.