Six steps
How one prompt becomes an ordered plan
THE AI ONLY EXPLAINS IT.
For anyone working towards a role in tech — frontend, data, cloud, ML, security, 15 roles in all — who wants to know what to learn next, in what order, and why.
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Every site hands you a pile of courses. None of them starts from what you already know and tells you the shortest way to the role you actually want.
How one prompt becomes an ordered plan
The role you want, what you already know, and your hours a week.
1GOALCloud Engineer
2LEVELPython · comfortable
3TIME6 h / week
4STYLEvideos · projects
What the role needs, minus what you have, plus what those need first.
Five checks: gap closed, level fit, your preferences, quality, match to your goal.
Coverage0.04Level fit1.00
Preference fit1.00Quality0.70
Similarity0.31Learners' next0.24
Total0.43
The smallest set of courses that closes the gap inside your hours.
EACH PICK
MOST GAP PER HOUR
STOPS WHEN
THE GAP IS CLOSED
OR WHEN
YOUR HOURS RUN OUT
A topological sort over the prerequisites, then checked against real learners.
Done, too hard, too easy. The plan is rebuilt and you see what changed and why.
YOU SAIDtoo hard
SWAPPEDConfluent Kafka Tutorials
FORConfluent Developer Kafka Courses
Skills
0
the skills we cover, ordered by hand.
Checkable
0of 193
“learn this before that” tested against real learners.
Confirmed
0of 188
the order held.
Disputed
0of 188
the order didn’t. A person read each one and decided.
WHY THIS COURSE
WHYTHIS?
LIVE PROFILE
FILLSAS YOU TALK
SKILL GRAPH
GAPMAP
WHEN A COURSE IS TOO HARD
THE PLANCHANGES
DASHBOARD
PROGRESSRADAR
IF THE MODEL IS DOWN
STILLANSWERS
You get a plan, the reasons behind each step, and a mentor who rewrites it when you push back.
PATHWISE
The path is arithmetic over your profile, the skill map and the catalog. Nova reads the result and tells you why.
The map was checked against how real people learned, on Stack Overflow and Coursera. Every number carries its source and its limit.
Verified by 2 of 2 sources
54,067 learners, 95 % in this order · Stack Overflow
2,137,848
users
The order people first asked about each skill.
Stack Overflow question order (first question per tag), users who started after both technologies existed; asking ≠ completing
72,774
learners
The order people reviewed each course.
Coursera learners 2015–2020; sequences reconstructed from review order; pseudo-users by reviewer name
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