PIN-gated journal
A PIN or passphrase gates access. Contents are encrypted at rest with AES-256. A twelve-word recovery phrase acts as a second key so a forgotten PIN never loses your journal.
A sibling product
Standalone PDP Module
The Personal Development Profile is becoming a standalone product in its own right. Same branding, same care, but with its own installer, its own licence, and its own space on your devices.
Laptop and desktop first. Phone access comes with your desktop licence via a secure web session. A native mobile app follows later as a separately licensed companion.
What it looks like
First-touch experience: PIN-gated entry, then a quiet home screen with the actions you actually use.
PIN-gated entry
Your reflection space is gated by a PIN or passphrase. A twelve-word recovery phrase is the safety net.
Quiet home screen
Six action tiles, no dashboards. New session, reflect, journal, AI summary, PDF export, SMART plan.
What the standalone PDP module is
The PDP module is a confidential reflection and development companion for educators. It supports PIN-gated onboarding, reflection chats, a private journal, structured development sheets, AI summaries (when you ask for them), PDF export for your own records, and gentle reminders. It is a coaching companion, not a surveillance tool.
Until now, PDP has lived inside the main Now I See It desktop app as a licensed feature. We're now shipping it as a standalone product for educators who want just the reflection side of the system without the full sensor and classroom stack.
What is in the standalone module
Reflection chat
A multi-turn conversation with an AI companion. It asks one thought-provoking question at a time, references what you actually said, and steers toward concrete classroom examples rather than generic advice.
Three coaching tones
Pick the voice that fits the moment: Supportive Coach (warm, encouraging), Critical Friend (direct, probing, honest), or Structured Assessment (formal, portfolio-ready, framed around observable evidence).
SMART sheets
Structured SMART forms with scaffolding, timeframe presets, and optional retrospective fields — What I Did / Result / Next Steps — so a goal has a real follow-up story, not just an aspirational start.
GAP-SWOT sheets
Where I am → where I want to be → the bridge. Paired with a classic SWOT grid (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) to surface what helps and what hinders.
Feedback requests
Lightweight templates for soliciting targeted peer feedback on a specific goal or competency. Link a feedback request to a SMART goal and the two entries cross-reference.
Overlay briefs
Printable daily micro-strategies — a short card with three or four two-to-four-minute actions, observation prompts, and success indicators. Something concrete to try in the next lesson, not a lecture.
AI summaries on request
When you choose, the module synthesises themes across your last ten entries. Tone-aware, cites real patterns in your journal, refuses to invent. Saveable back into the journal itself.
Reminders + PDF export
Opt-in nudges (per launch, per account open, weekly, or never) that never guilt-trip. Any entry can be exported to PDF for appraisals, portfolios, or your own records.
Fully bilingual — English and Bulgarian, with AI output in either or both on request.
How the AI chat buddy actually works
The reflection conversation is not a single-shot AI generator. It is a back-and-forth. You share something; the AI listens, references it, and asks one honest follow-up question. No lectures, no scripts, no machine-gun list of “five tips for educators.”
Each turn, the AI keeps its response to a few short paragraphs and a single focused question. It steers you toward concrete classroom examples and specific actions rather than abstract generalities. When you decide you are done, one click turns the conversation into a SMART plan — three or four goals drawn from what you actually discussed, each with a measurable indicator and a realistic one-to-four-week timeframe. You edit the plan before it saves. It is your plan, not the AI's.
On later visits, the AI may gently reference your last few reflections — only when relevant, only to keep continuity. It is grounded in what you share with it, not in your students, your lesson plans, or your classroom data. That is a deliberate boundary, not a limitation we'd like to remove.
The Self Assessment Quiz
Before deciding whether the PDP module is for you, take five short statements about your own professional development posture. Ungated. No email needed. Nothing leaves your browser. The result respects you whether you score high or low — and tells you honestly whether the PDP module is the next step or whether you'd be just as well served by a notebook and someone you trust to check in.
It is the same reflective tone as the PDP, distilled into one minute. If you find it useful, the module is for you. If you don't, please carry the questions away anyway — they are yours.
Development models the module draws on
SMART goal setting
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timed — with honest scaffolding that pushes for how you will evidence progress, not just state an intention.
GAP analysis + SWOT
Where you are, where you want to be, the bridge in between, and a SWOT grid that makes internal strengths and external conditions both visible.
Micro-practice scaffolds
Overlay briefs break a competency into two-to-four-minute in-lesson experiments with success indicators — small enough to try tomorrow, structured enough to learn from.
Peer feedback loops
Structured feedback requests keep peer input targeted and tied back to a specific goal, so feedback closes a development loop instead of drifting.
Coaching by question
The AI converses in a reflective-practitioner style — ask, listen, reference, ask again — rather than a consultancy-deliverable style.
Pattern reflection
Periodic AI summaries surface themes and progress across your journal — an honest mirror for longer arcs of development rather than a per-entry verdict.
The real-world evidencing loop
The point is that reflection does not end in the module. An overlay brief suggests something concrete to try in your next lesson. A SMART sheet captures what you committed to. Retrospective follow-up fields let you record what actually happened — what worked, what did not, what comes next. A periodic AI summary draws the arc out across weeks.
Try, evidence, reflect, adjust. The AI coaches the thinking; you do the evidencing in the classroom, where it counts. Challenges that surface along the way become the next reflection, with suggestions the AI can offer only because you brought them the reality first.
Desktop first, mobile soon
Laptop and desktop come first because that is where most educators do their considered, reflective work. A desktop keyboard, a larger screen, and a window that doesn't get interrupted suits the kind of thinking PDP is designed to support.
Mobile is next because reflection also happens on the train, in the corridor, after a good lesson, after a hard day. We want the module to meet you there too.
Two ways to use it on a phone
The first way ships with your desktop licence. The second way arrives later as a separate, branded product.
Secure connection from your phone
Open your phone's browser, go to a private URL tied to your licence, sign in, unlock with your PIN, use. No app-store install, no separate codebase, no waiting for review to ship a fix. This is the default way phone access is delivered alongside the standalone desktop PDP.
- No install step — works on any reasonably modern phone
- End-to-end encrypted session between your phone and your account
- PIN-gated the same way the desktop module is
- Optional “Add to Home Screen” so it feels like an app
- Updates are instant — no store gatekeeping
- Works across phone and tablet without a second install
Cost: included with your standalone PDP desktop licence.
Native PDP mobile app
A native mobile app from the Google Play and Apple App stores will follow as a distinct product. Fully branded, with clear links back to Now I See It. For people who want app-store install, offline-first behaviour, push reminders, or biometric unlock.
- Separately licensed, its own SKU, its own price
- Sibling to the desktop PDP — shared account, not bundled
- Offline-first with background sync when connected
- Push notifications for reminders, if you want them
- Biometric unlock as an alternative to the PIN
- Branded and linked back to Now I See It as part of the same ecosystem
When: after the secure-browser route has been in real use with educators. No promised date.
Why a separate SKU for the native app?
Shipping a native mobile app is a distinct ongoing commitment — two platforms, two review cycles, and two sets of accessibility and notification behaviours to hold to the same standard as the desktop module. Pricing it separately keeps that commitment honest rather than hidden inside another product's price tag.
Educators who are happy with the included web session never need to pay twice. Those who want the native experience can opt in when it ships. Both products point at the same confidential PDP account.
Desktop + web phone access
When you buy the standalone PDP module for desktop, the secure phone-browser session is included on the same account — no extra charge, nothing to install on your phone. That is the phone story until the native app ships.
PIN first, always
Whichever surface you use — desktop, web session on a phone, or the future native app — your PIN or passphrase gates access. Content is encrypted at rest with AES-256. A twelve-word recovery phrase acts as a second key so a forgotten PIN never locks you out of your own work. AI summaries happen only when you request them, and nothing about your PDP is shared with schools, employers, or anyone else by default.
What this means practically
- Standalone PDP module ships with its own installer and its own licence.
- Private, local, encrypted at rest — PIN first, with a twelve-word recovery phrase as a second key.
- Three coaching tones you can switch between: Supportive Coach, Critical Friend, Structured Assessment.
- SMART and GAP-SWOT sheets with honest retrospective fields — so goals get an evidencing story, not just a starting wish.
- Printable overlay briefs: small, concrete things to try in your next lesson with success indicators.
- Bilingual — English and Bulgarian, with AI output in either or both on request.
- Phone access comes with your desktop licence, delivered as a secure browser session.
- A native PDP mobile app follows later as a separate SKU — branded, linked back to Now I See It, and priced distinctly from the desktop licence.
- Both surfaces sit on the same confidential PDP account. Never mandatory to buy both.
- Interested in the native app when it lands? Register your interest and we'll let you know.