Summary & Goal
The buddy and the onboarding path grew up separately. The path — now a PM-authored blueprint copied
per hire (#58) — is the plan. The buddy has its own world of arrival steps, starter work and the
board, and cannot see that plan at all: it has no tool that reads one. So a hire asking "what should
I do next?" gets an answer from somewhere other than the page they are looking at.
Bring the two together: the path stays the plan, and the buddy becomes the tutor along it. Its own
world stays too — it is what carries a hire where nobody has authored a blueprint — but it stops being
a second plan.
Depends on the three blueprint branches landing first (sprintstart-backend#58, sprintstart-ai#192,
sprintstart-frontend#217).
The line this rests on
- The blueprint is the PM's. The buddy never edits it.
- The hire's copy of the path is theirs. The buddy proposes; the hire confirms.
- Reading is free; every change goes through a confirm button.
What that means
- The buddy can see where the hire stands, what is open and what is locked, and talks about the phase
they are in — not the whole plan, which is a page they already have.
- A knowledge question becomes a tutoring moment: it explains the material and is never told the
correct answer, so it cannot hand one over.
- It can move the hire along on confirmation — finish a step, tick a line, send their answer, add a
step to their own copy where a phase came back empty.
- Questions get routed: the path answers "what is next", the metrics and the ledger answer "how am I
doing".
- The path becomes something both can point at — the buddy is reachable from every step and question,
and names items the way the page numbers them.
Acceptance Criteria
Definition of Done
Summary & Goal
The buddy and the onboarding path grew up separately. The path — now a PM-authored blueprint copied
per hire (#58) — is the plan. The buddy has its own world of arrival steps, starter work and the
board, and cannot see that plan at all: it has no tool that reads one. So a hire asking "what should
I do next?" gets an answer from somewhere other than the page they are looking at.
Bring the two together: the path stays the plan, and the buddy becomes the tutor along it. Its own
world stays too — it is what carries a hire where nobody has authored a blueprint — but it stops being
a second plan.
Depends on the three blueprint branches landing first (
sprintstart-backend#58,sprintstart-ai#192,sprintstart-frontend#217).The line this rests on
What that means
they are in — not the whole plan, which is a page they already have.
correct answer, so it cannot hand one over.
step to their own copy where a phase came back empty.
doing".
and names items the way the page numbers them.
Acceptance Criteria
mentor that never mentions a path
Definition of Done
devtogether —none of them ships alone