Quick Start

This guide takes you from a new workspace to your first verified item. It should take about ten minutes.

1. Select your industries

During setup you choose the industries your organisation works in. Radial uses this to auto-populate your Items Library (the org-wide catalogue of the work you deliver) so you’re not starting from a blank page.

2. Review your Items Library

Your Items Library is shared across the whole organisation. Before your first project, take a few minutes to tune it:

• Remove items that don’t apply to your organisation.
• Add custom items for work that’s specific to you.

You can keep refining the library over time. It isn’t locked after setup.

3. Create a project

Create a project and pick the items from your library that are relevant to this job. That subset becomes the project’s WorkMAP™, its verified record of delivery. Only the work that matters to this project appears; the rest of your library stays out of the way.

4. Assign your team

Add the people working on the project, then assign the three roles for each item:

• Owner: assigns the work and oversees delivery.
• Completer: does the work and marks it complete.
• Verifier: a qualified colleague who confirms it was done, and done right.

One person can hold different roles on different items. See Your Team & Roles for the full model.

5. Complete and verify work

As work happens, Completers mark their items done and Verifiers confirm them. When a Verifier confirms an item, it becomes part of the permanent record.

Take two minutes to add detail

When completing an item, add a quick note on what was actually done: methods used, standards applied, deliverables produced. This is what turns a tick-box into real career evidence. See My Career.

6. See the result

Career portfolios build automatically from verified work. Every person on the project accumulates a verified record of their capabilities: real evidence from real projects, with no separate data entry.

Where to next

• Core Concepts: the vocabulary behind Radial.
• Projects & the WorkMAP™: a closer look at delivery.
• My Career: how the portfolio comes together.

Need a hand at any point? Open the help menu (ℹ️) in the top-right corner of the app for contextual tips, or the Get Started tab for an interactive walkthrough.