Get started: run your own work to the standard

This is the first-fortnight path for running your own work to the standard. Each step takes minutes; together they turn "I think I'm in control" into a score you can watch move.

When you first sign in you get a three-slide welcome tour (Skip or Next through it), and your Dashboard shows a checklist called Your first control points with a 0 of 4 done counter. The four sections below are those four items, in order. Every item ticks itself off from real data — do the thing anywhere in the app and the tick appears.

Set your learning plan

1. On the dashboard checklist, choose Set your learning plan — or press Set my learning plan → on the tour's last slide.
2. Say how you'll take in the standard: an intent, cadence and target date for the book, the e-learning, and the chapter assessments, plus a start date. Any lane can be marked not planned — commit only to what you'll do.
3. Press Set my learning plan.

If your dates look far out, the form re-shows with a nudge to tighten them — submit again to confirm a deliberately slower plan. You'll land back on the dashboard with your plan set: your own control point on the learning.

Take a Control Discipline Snapshot

1. Choose Take a Control Discipline Snapshot on the checklist, or open Control Discipline Snapshot in the sidebar.
2. On the free tier press Start assessment · use 1 snapshot — you get five free snapshots, and starting one uses a credit.
3. Score each of the ten disciplines. A live badge at the bottom shows your running mean and how many of the ten you've scored.
4. Press See result.

You'll see your mean score and named status — a private baseline, about ten minutes. Nothing is saved; the trend comes from the snapshot's persistent sibling, the project check-in, below.

Create your first project

1. Open Projects in the sidebar and press New project.
2. Give the project a name; add a status, dates and a check-in cadence — the rhythm you'll actually keep.
3. Press Create project, then set the mission and pillars on the next screen. The score isn't meaningful until the mission is set — the project card shows a Mission gap pill until you do.

Pick one real piece of work you own — see projects for what makes a good candidate.

Submit your first weekly check-in

1. From the dashboard's Submit a check-in section, pick the project and press Go to check-in — or open the project and choose Submit check-in.
2. Score the ten disciplines as they stand this week and press Submit check-in.

You'll see the project's aggregate score and named status, and the check-in can raise dated, owned next steps — see control points.

Submit your second check-in

One check-in is a data point; the second draws the line. Next week, when your cadence comes round, check in again — that's when the trend appears and you can see whether the work is tightening or drifting. In between, log anything that snags in the Friction Log; it takes ten seconds and feeds your first Systemise Review.

Who can do this

Anyone with an account — every step here needs only a sign-in, no special permission. Snapshots are capped at five on the free tier (referrals earn more); projects and check-ins work on every plan. Your learning plan, snapshot results and friction log are private to you.