PathAlpha

What Path does

An anonymous, aggregate picture of how your people are developing — without putting anyone under surveillance.

For your organisation

Know what your people are developing towards, and where support would help

Whether you’re a university, an NHS trust, a professional body, or a membership scheme, Path gives you an anonymous, aggregate picture of how your people are developing against the standards that matter, so you can put support where it’s needed without putting anyone under surveillance.

Commission what's actually neededAggregate, anonymised development data across your people tells you what to invest in — before you spend on provision they didn't need.
A live picture of progressAnonymous, aggregate coverage across your cohort or membership — frameworks in use, coverage by criterion, CPD hours — updated as people work.
Author your own frameworkCPD criteria, competences, grade requirements — written and owned by you, with a real draft, publish, and version lifecycle. Publish a revision and no one already evidencing against the current version is disrupted.
Run a mentoring programmePair members, set a session plan and what you expect of mentors and mentees, and follow the programme in totals. Each pair confirms before it starts, and Path never shows what they discuss.
Visibility without surveillanceYou see patterns, not people. Someone appears by name only when they choose to share their path.
Reports for your boardExport the aggregate picture as a Word report when a board, accreditor or funder asks, without asking anything of individual members.

Privacy by design

Visibility without surveillance

Your organisation dashboard shows cohort-level data by default — how many members have started a path, what frameworks they’re using, where coverage is strong and where it isn’t. You see patterns, not people.

A person becomes visible by name only when they choose to share a specific path with the organisation, or submit it for review. Until then, Path protects their portfolio as theirs.

What you see by default

  • What your people are developing towards, by type
  • Framework coverage across the cohort
  • CPD hours and evidence quality, aggregate
  • Criterion-level coverage across all frameworks

What stays private

  • Individual claim content and reflections
  • Whose evidence supports which criterion
  • Personal profile details
  • Everything, until the member chooses to share

Your own standards

Your framework, with your members’ evidence against it

Path doesn’t prescribe what counts as professional development. You define the standards — your CPD criteria, your competency framework, your membership grade requirements — and members gather evidence against them.

The result is an aggregate picture of where your members are building strength against your standards and where they’d benefit from support, by criterion and by evidence strength. You can export it as a Word report for a board or a funder.

1

You define the criteria

Add your standards, competences, or CPD requirements. Group them into pillars. Describe what evidence counts.

2

Members evidence against them

Each member builds their own portfolio against your framework — claims, CPD, reflections, evidence — rated by strength.

3

You see where support would help

Your dashboard shows criterion-by-criterion coverage across your membership, updated as members add evidence.

How the review works

A structured review process, without the friction

  • A member submits their path for review when ready. An admin allocates one or more reviewers from the organisation.
  • Each reviewer works independently through the criteria — reading the claims and evidence alongside them — leaving feedback and a recommendation.
  • Feedback reaches the member alongside their actual work, attributed anonymously to a “Reviewer” — review is blind, and reviewers don't see each other's comments.
  • The admin makes the final decision from the reviewers' recommendations and notes. Outside review, they see aggregate progress across the cohort, and a member's path only if that member shares it with the organisation.

Reviewing

A member’s submission

Professional revalidation · you can read the submission but not change it

1.2Contributes to the quality of practice Indicators (4)
Self-rated · Secure

Audit-led change to follow-up pathway

I led an audit of follow-up appointments, found a gap, and redesigned the pathway — re-audit showed a measurable improvement…

Feedback
Clear link from activity to outcome — strong.
Post feedback
Your recommendation: Return ApproveBlind · independent of other reviewers

Your organisation

Supporting your people

Where your people are developing, and where they’d benefit from support — aggregate and anonymous, never individual.

OverviewFrameworksReviewsReport

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members with paths

57

paths

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reviews open

By framework

CPD audit24 members
Professional revalidation14 members
Fellowship pathway19 members
Not started Early Progressing Complete

Your people are already doing the work. Path helps them show what it means, and shows you where they’d benefit from support.

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