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Progression

HR
Velocity0.0

Career framework and growth platform for defining role expectations and progression.

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Progression built a career-growth hub for skills frameworks, then its changelog went quiet.

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◆Current state
Progression is a skills-framework and career-development tool for HR and people teams, organized around frameworks, check-ins, and a personal Growth Profile. The visible history shows a product maturing through 2023-2024: a relaunched growth-centric homepage, skill variants for larger orgs, organization insights, performance work for big teams, and SOC 2 Type II accreditation. Notably, the changelog in this dataset stops in November 2024, so there is no recent shipping activity to assess.
◆Where it's heading
Through its active period the arc was clear: move from a framework-building tool toward a daily growth companion (Growth Profile, Compare, Focus Skills) while hardening for enterprise (performance at 1000+ seats, SOC 2, org insights). Early AI appeared in skill generation and AI Reflections. But with no entries past late 2024, the dataset cannot confirm whether that trajectory continued.
◆Prediction
The available entries are too old to ground a confident prediction; the absence of any release since November 2024 is the most notable signal and likely reflects a stalled or relocated changelog feed rather than the product itself.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1y ago

    Skill imports and exports now support variants

    Skill variants can now be created and updated via CSV import/export, letting larger orgs bulk-edit their skill taxonomy in a spreadsheet. It extends the Variants feature toward the enterprise-scale skill management Progression had been building, useful but incremental.

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  2. 2y ago

    Check-ins are becoming clearer

    Check-in buttons now show explicit level numbers so users understand what Working Towards, Meeting, and Exceeding mean against a skill level. The underlying logic is unchanged; this is a clarity fix to a core workflow, framed as the first of a planned set of check-in improvements.

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  3. 2y ago

    We're now SOC 2 Type II Compliant

    SOC 2 Type II accreditation is a security and trust milestone that matters for enterprise procurement but changes nothing a user does in the product. It signals seriousness about enterprise readiness without adding capability.

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  4. 2y ago

    Huge performance improvements for larger teams

    Insights, skills, and check-in aggregate pages load up to ten times faster for large organizations, with snappier framework-building UI. Pure performance work, but the kind that matters as Progression onboards bigger customers and aligns with its enterprise-scaling push.

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  5. 2y ago

    Bye beta, hello Growth Profile, Compare and Activity 2.0

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    The Growth Profile graduates from beta as Progression's new homepage, bundling Career Paths, starred focus items, and an upgraded Compare and Activity 2.0. It is the clearest directional move in the set: a shift from a framework-administration tool toward a daily, individual growth companion.

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  6. 2y ago

    Navigation, check-in management, and frameworks UI cleanup

    A round of UX consolidation: unified left-hand navigation separating Growth, Build, and Admin; clearer check-in management with quick filters; a refreshed Frameworks UI; and load-time improvements. Foundational polish that set up the Growth Profile relaunch rather than a capability change of its own.

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