Forward Impact Engineering

The Problem

Engineering organizations lack shared definitions of quality. Promotions stall because managers can't point to what 'senior' means. Leaders staff teams on gut feel. The only available metrics single out individuals. Engineers can't see what their organization expects of them. Coding agents follow generic practices instead of organizational standards.

The Goal

"The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of [engineers] and [agents], to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people."

— W. Edwards Deming

Who Hires These Products

Engineering Leaders

Define what good engineering looks like. Staff teams to succeed. Measure outcomes and do not blame individuals.

Job	Products
Define the Engineering Standard	Map
Staff Teams to Succeed	Summit
Measure Engineering Outcomes	Landmark

Empowered Engineers

Understand expectations. Find growth areas. Prepare for the day ahead. Equip and trust your agent teams. Ground each of these in your organization's agent-aligned engineering standard.

Job	Products
See What's Expected of Humans and Agents	Pathway
Get Judgment Grounded in the Standard	Guide
Be Prepared and Productive	Outpost

Quick Start

Install Pathway and Guide from npm. Then generate installation-specific service code:

npm install @forwardimpact/pathway @forwardimpact/guide
npx fit-codegen generate --all

Browse your agent-aligned engineering standard:

npx fit-pathway discipline --list
npx fit-pathway job software-engineering J060

Guide needs a service stack that runs. See the getting started guide for setup.

Public Sites

Five sites publish the products and the standards:

• www.forwardimpact.team — Map, Pathway, Guide, Landmark, Summit, Outpost, and Gear
• www.gemba.team — Gemba, the agent-runtime platform
• www.kata.team — Kata, the agent-team practice
• www.jidoka.team — Jidoka, the instruction-architecture standard
• www.monorepo.team — the Monorepo structure standard

Learn More

• Jobs To Be Done – The jobs users hire our products for
• Documentation — Getting started, guides, reference, and architecture internals
• CONTRIBUTING.md — Pull request workflow, git conventions, and quality commands
• CLAUDE.md — Context for coding agents

License

Apache-2.0