The Path Personal
What should I do next? Your prioritised career action plan.
"You know what the right move is. The plan is about making it irreversible."
What It Does
The Path builds a specific, prioritised career action plan tailored to your goals, constraints, and current position. It does not give generic advice. Actions are concrete and confronting: "Stop taking pure drafting work immediately" rather than "consider developing new skills". Each action has a priority level and timeframe.
The Path requires a Personal tier subscription (£19.99/year).
How the Conversation Works
The Path asks about where you want to go, not just where you are. It probes for your career goal, your constraints (financial, geographic, personal), and what has stopped you from making changes already. It also asks what you are willing to give up, because every plan involves trade-offs.
If you have completed earlier tools, The Path draws on your Centaur Score, sector shifts, and capability profile to build a plan grounded in your full diagnostic picture. Without that context, it still works but asks more questions to compensate.
If you uploaded documents in The Mirror, your extracted profile carries forward. The Path will already know your role, seniority, and sector, and will go straight to asking about your goals and constraints rather than establishing the basics.
Tip: Be honest about constraints. "I cannot take a pay cut for six months" or "I need to stay in this city" produces a more useful plan than pretending you have unlimited flexibility.
The Results Experience
When analysis completes, the chat disappears and a full-screen cinematic experience takes over. The plan is presented as a strategic brief, not a to-do list.
The Opening Line
A single AI-generated sentence that reframes the problem the plan addresses. This is not a summary. It names the core tension that makes the plan urgent. It appears in large italic text, centre screen, before a single action is revealed.
Priority Actions
Three to five actions, each as a distinct card with a priority badge, description, and timeframe. Actions are colour-coded by urgency:
| Priority | Colour | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Do Now | Red | Immediate actions. Start this week. These create momentum and signal commitment. |
| Build Next | Amber | Medium-term actions. Start within one to three months. These require preparation. |
| Ongoing | Purple | Continuous habits and positioning moves. These compound over time. |
Each action is specific enough to act on. "Publish a short LinkedIn post articulating your view on [specific topic in your sector]" rather than "build your personal brand".
Your Biggest Lever
The single most important insight in the plan, displayed as an elevated blockquote with a green accent. This is the one thing that, if you did nothing else, would create the most change. It sits above the individual actions because strategy is about knowing what matters most.
The Trap to Avoid
The most likely way you will sabotage the plan. Displayed with a red accent to match the weight of the biggest lever. This section is often the sharpest content in The Path because it names the pattern you are most likely to fall back into.
Six-Month Vision
A picture of what changes if you follow the plan. This is a destination, not an instruction. It creates the emotional pull that makes the actions feel worthwhile.
Share Card
A downloadable 1200×630px image showing the opening insight line and the number of actions in your plan. Designed for LinkedIn.
In-App Help
The tool name in the navigation bar has an info icon that opens a brief "About this tool" panel. Section labels in the results experience have info icons with one-sentence explanations.
How It Connects
- The Mirror shows where you stand. The Path shows how to move
- The Shift shows the timeline pressures. The Path builds actions that account for them
- The Edge identifies your strengths. The Path builds actions that compound them
- The Thread connects the plan to your broader career narrative
Best Practices
- Complete The Mirror, The Shift, and The Edge first. The Path is strongest when it has your full diagnostic picture
- Be specific about your career goal. "Make partner within two years" produces a sharper plan than "advance my career"
- Name your constraints honestly. The plan accounts for them rather than ignoring them
- Start with the Do Now actions. Plans are only as good as the first action you take
- Read the Trap to Avoid section twice. It describes the pattern you are least likely to see in yourself
- Re-run every 90 days to update the plan as your situation evolves
Common Questions
- How specific are the actions? Very. Each action names what to do, not just what to think about. If an action is vague, the conversation did not give The Path enough detail to work with
- What if my goal changes? Re-run The Path with your new goal. The plan rebuilds from scratch
- Can I use this with my manager or coach? Yes. The export is designed to be shared. The six-month vision and priority actions make a useful starting point for development conversations
"Come back in 90 days. Plans are only as good as the first action you take."