Your clients grow.
Your dashboard
updates itself.
NextREADY GPS puts a local AI coach in every client's hands. As they build skill evidence — in their own words, on their own device — their progress flows automatically to your navigator dashboard as WIOA-compliant Measurable Skill Gains (MSG). No extra data entry. No lag.
Infrastructure that belongs to the learner.
Documentation that belongs to the navigator.
"New Mexico's workforce challenge is not a training gap — it is a foundation gap."
Learners who lack the Durable Life Skills that underpin every career pathway cannot fully benefit from job training until those foundations are visible, measurable, and portable. NextREADY GPS provides that infrastructure: a local AI coaching system that runs on the client's own device — private, no cloud required — and feeds skill evidence directly to the navigator's dashboard.
This matters especially in tribal and rural communities where data sovereignty is not a policy concern but a community value. The AI coach is a thinking partner, not a surveillance platform. What the client builds stays theirs — and automatically becomes the navigator's documentation record.
Every iCAN statement maps to the DOL Building Blocks recognized framework (864 occupations). Progression from DOK 1 → DOK 3 constitutes MSG Type 4 intrinsically — no extra mapping, no additional data entry. Navigators see baseline → in progress → milestone reached automatically.
The local AI coach runs on the participant's own device. Sensitive learner data never routes through external cloud systems — critical for tribal and rural communities with data sovereignty concerns.
Built to the MSG compliance framework EAWDB programs already report against. Navigator dashboards are designed to reduce documentation burden, not add to it.
McCune Charitable Foundation (Grant #260209) provides the philanthropic anchor — signaling to workforce funders that the system has earned independent investment.
Workforce navigators as first-tier users: shared framework training, local AI toolkit deployment, and facilitated cohort support — with participant cohorts in the second tier.
Live MSG dashboard auto-populated from client AI sessions. Coach queue flags clients needing human follow-up. One-click WIOA export when documentation is ready.
Students build iCAN evidence in the classroom that carries directly into post-secondary and workforce records — a continuous credential from school to career, no re-documentation at each transition.
Local AI runs on the family's own device. No cloud required. A shared vocabulary between home, classroom, and workforce center — families see what their learner is building in real time.
Three ideas that power the system
NextREADY GPS is built around three interlocking concepts. Understanding them makes the rest of the platform immediately legible.
You focus on learners.
The system handles documentation.
Navigators already carry caseloads of 80–150 WIOA participants. NextREADY GPS is designed to reduce documentation burden — not add to it.
What a Measurable Skill Gain actually looks like
An iCAN statement begins as a single sentence at intake — the client's own words, describing a Durable Life Skill they already use. As they move through the program, each real experience gives them something new to say. Each revision deepens the statement across four DOK levels — from naming the skill (DOK 1) through applying it (DOK 2), strategizing with it (DOK 3), and designing with it across new contexts (DOK 4). Each step generates a documented progression toward MSG Type 4.
A spine that fits your program schedule
Every cohort follows the same structure — Durable Life Skills at the core, pathway-specific activities layered on top. POL card taps log participation at every step; iCAN statements deepen from DOK 1 at intake through DOK 4 — with DOK 3 as the standard 12-week program exit target.
- Enroll, issue POL cards, baseline GPSAssessment
- Durable Life Skills Level 1 activities begin
- Clients write first iCAN statements at DOK 1
- MSG status: Baseline Recorded
- Pathway lab work; Durable Life Skills in technical context
- Midpoint GPSAssessment — MSG status: In Progress
- Family, Friends & Neighbors career interviews
- iCAN statements revised to DOK 2 from real experience
- Capstone projects applying Durable Life Skills in pathway context
- iCAN checkpoint — DOK 3 exit target; DOK 4 for capstone/design-level evidence
- Final GPSAssessment — pre/post pair complete
- Navigator exports MSG package for every WIOA case file
Who needs attention today?
The caseload view is built for triage, not reporting. MSG status badges and attention flags surface automatically — populated in real time as clients use the local AI coach. Click any row to see the full iCAN version chain and linked evidence. One button generates the WIOA case file PDF.
| Client | MSG status | iCAN DOK level | Last POL activity | Attention flag |
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Built around MSG Type 4 from the start
NextREADY GPS meets WIOA Measurable Skill Gains requirements without retrofitting. The iCAN version chain, POL activity log, and GPSAssessment pre/post pair together satisfy every element of MSG Type 4 source documentation.
CNM Ingenuity: navigators first, participants second
The proposed CNM Ingenuity pilot is designed as a two-tier model. Workforce navigators are the first-tier users — they experience the system, build fluency with it, and understand what their clients will use. Participant cohorts follow in the second tier, supported by navigators who already know the framework.
This is not simply AI training or an edtech platform. It is workforce infrastructure — human-centered, equity-oriented, and built on the principle that durable skills need durable documentation systems that clients, families, navigators, and funders can all trust. The K-12 to community college to workforce continuum is designed in from the start: iCAN evidence a student builds in the classroom carries directly into the workforce record, without re-documentation at each transition.
Workforce navigators receive shared framework training, local AI toolkit deployment on their own devices, and facilitated implementation support. They become the in-house experts before participants arrive.
WIOA-eligible participants use the local AI coach with navigator support. iCAN evidence flows automatically to the navigator dashboard as MSG progress — reducing case management overhead while increasing documentation quality.
Results from the Eastern Area Workforce Development Board
ASCEND's Durable Life Skills framework was implemented by EAWDB through the Startup Generation Entrepreneurship program, serving WIOA-eligible youth, adults, and dislocated workers in eastern New Mexico. Outcomes were independently evaluated by Jason Ravitz of Evaluation by Design and presented at the National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB) Forum in Washington, D.C., April 2022.
The Durable Life Skills framework — the 39 transferable skills across Life, Work, and Learning that the system measures, develops, and documents
Pre/post Durable Life Skills gains across EAWDB program cohorts — evaluated using the validated 21CTL instrument (Cronbach's alpha >.90)
See NextREADY GPS in action
Schedule a walkthrough with a NextREADY GPS team member. We'll show you the full navigator workflow — from local AI coach setup and baseline iCAN statements through to automatic dashboard updates and WIOA export.