Professional Growth Platform for the AI Era
What are the foundational skills required for my job?
And how is AI changing which ones matter?
Which direction do I want to grow?
Not the next title, but the trajectory my energy and strengths are pointing toward?
Is the work I'm doing actually helping me grow in that direction?
Or am I just staying busy?
Day 1
About 10 minutes
Establish your foundation
Set up your profile and role, then walk through a set of workplace scenarios — real "what would you do" situations tailored to your role, not a quiz. In a few minutes, you get your AI Fluency Profile: every skill classified by how AI is changing it. Which ones to invest in, which to evolve, which to maintain, and which you can safely deprioritise. Then pick a growth direction based on where your skills and energy are actually pointing.
Weeks 1–2 onwards
~10 min/week
Your work becomes the signal
Connect UpNova to Claude, Cursor, or any AI tool that supports the open standard. The conversations you're already having about your work — debugging, drafting, decision-making, coaching — flow into UpNova as captures. Skills tagged, signal strength assessed, learning insights surfaced. Over weeks, patterns emerge: where energy is going, whether it aligns with the chosen direction, and what alternative trajectories the work is quietly revealing.
Week 3+ onwards
~10 min/week
Calibrate how you see yourself
See how your self-perception compares with how others experience you. Rate your own proficiency across skills with a self-read. Bring structure to growth conversations through one-on-one syncs. And with peer syncs, discover where your view of yourself aligns — or doesn't — with how colleagues see your strengths.
See how capture happens without effort — and how the picture builds itself across the week, the 1:1, and the team view. Both the individual and the leader perspective.
HOW CAPTURE HAPPENS
Built into the tools you already use.
UpNova connects to Claude, Cursor, and any AI tool that supports the open standard. The conversations you're already having about your work become the signal — no second window, no weekly journaling, no extra time.
WORK MOMENT: MONDAY · CURSOR
Debugging a production issue. You walk through a stack trace with the AI, find a race condition in the auth handler, ship the fix.
WHAT LANDS IN UPNOVA:
A capture tagged Debugging · Systems Thinking · Incident Response — with a learning insight pulled from the conversation itself.
WORK MOMENT: WEDNESDAY · CLAUDE
Drafting launch comms. You pull the security model from a design doc, translate it for customers, flag items for legal.
WHAT LANDS IN UPNOVA:
A capture tagged Stakeholder Communication · Written Influence · Cross-Functional Collaboration.
WORK MOMENT: FRIDAY · CLAUDE
Prepping a hard 1:1. You think through how to open a conversation with a teammate who's overextended but won't ask for help.
WHAT LANDS IN UPNOVA:
A capture tagged Coaching · Difficult Conversations · People Leadership.
For Individuals
Clarity on your skills, direction, and whether your work is getting you there.
Capture happens automatically as you work in the AI tools you already use
Know which skills matter most for your role and where you stand
See if your daily work is building toward your growth direction
Spot emerging trajectories before you've consciously named them
Walk into performance conversations with structured insights
Understand how AI is reshaping what's valuable in your role
For Leaders
The same clarity, across your team — with signals that make coaching concrete.
1:1 prep notes grounded in real growth data, not guesswork
Visibility into where skill gaps are forming across the team
Coaching-ready insights that make development conversations concrete
Confidence that while the team is shipping, people are also growing
A team growth picture that deepens with every interaction
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT
Built around how professional growth actually works
Not another dashboard. A picture of professional value that deepens with every interaction.
Captures itself, in the tools you already use
Claude, Cursor, any AI tool that supports the open standard — UpNova picks up the signal from work you're already doing. No journaling, no second window.
Specific to every role
Skill classifications and AI impact analysis are grounded in 189 specific roles across 13 departments. Not one-size-fits-all.
The skills AI can't replace
Judgment, trust-building, creative problem framing, influence, adaptive learning — tracked alongside technical skills.
A picture that compounds
The first ten minutes produce a useful picture. From there, every capture from your work, every conversation, every self-read makes it sharper. Not a one-time snapshot.
For individuals and teams
Works for professionals growing on their own and teams building shared clarity around growth.
Private by default
Honest reflection requires safety. Reflections stay private. Leads see coaching-ready insights, not raw writing.
Not a performance management tool
Your data is yours. This is a mirror, not a scorecard. Reflections stay private by default — that's what makes honest self-reflection possible. In a team setting, leads see growth patterns and coaching-ready insights, not raw journal entries.
Not a course platform
UpNova doesn't sell training. It helps you see clearly — which skills are growing in value, where your energy is going, what trajectory is forming — so you can decide what to invest in.
Not a one-time snapshot
The first ten minutes produce a useful picture on their own. But the real value is compounding — every capture from your work, every conversation, and every self-read makes the picture sharper and more personal.
Not an AI chatbot for career advice
AI chatbots give advice based on a single conversation. UpNova builds understanding over time — from scenario responses, weekly reflections, peer feedback, and actual work patterns. It tracks trajectory across months, not just a single prompt.
Not finished
This is an early build. Some edges are rough. Some features are partial. That's intentional — we're sharing it now so the decisions that shape the experience are informed by people whose judgment we trust. That includes you.
Private by default
Honest reflection requires trust. Everything you write stays private unless you choose to share it. In a team setting, leaders see coaching-ready insights and growth patterns — never your raw reflections. Your profile travels with you, and data exports are always available.
See where your work is taking you
Sign in, pick your role and direction, and land on a populated Growth Compass in under two minutes. From there, the work you do in Claude and Cursor keeps it current — no logging required.