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No authored onboarding path — IS-START is seeded but is not a sequence a new member can follow #45

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013-OD-AACR already lists this under what is still open: "IS-START curriculum is seeded but thin — the onboarding path is not authored." Filing it so it is trackable alongside the platform defects, because it is a different class of problem and will outlive all of them.

The gap

A member who signs in today lands on /home/panel and sees course cards and counts. There is no stated first step, no order, and no definition of what finishing means. IS-START exists as a course code with seeded resources rather than as an authored onboarding sequence.

Why it belongs on the same list as the bugs

The empty-lesson defect (#43) is why members currently say they cannot access the course. This is why, once that is fixed, they will still not know what to do. Fixing #43 alone converts a broken product into an aimless one — the difference matters when the whole cohort is in beta and forming its first impression.

It is also the one item on the current defect list that no code change can close.

Proposed scope

  1. Author IS-START as a real sequence: what to do first, in what order, what done looks like at each step, and what the member should be able to do at the end.
  2. Give the post-sign-in surface a single visible next action rather than a set of cards. This may need a theme override or a panel slot — see Theme reverts after sign-in — authenticated pages render a different theme than the landing page #38 for why the panel is currently unthemeable.
  3. Replace the placeholder courses with pilot content.

Item 2 has a platform dependency. Items 1 and 3 are content work and do not.

Verification

Hand the platform to somebody who has never seen it, say nothing, and watch. If they ask "what do I do now" at any point, that point is the finding.


Circle status: GitHub leg only. No bd binary on my machine and .beads/ is gitignored, so the bead and Plane LEARN cross-refs need adding by someone with those tools.

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