Individual Development Plan (IDP) Tracker
Build an internal tool where employees and managers create, approve, and track Individual Development Plans quarter by quarter - so development plans stop dying in a once-a-year form.
A private, login-protected IDP tracker where employees draft development plans, managers review and approve them, milestones and goals are tracked, quarterly reviews are prompted automatically, and everything exports to CSV.
Before you start
- A free Vercel account
- A free Supabase account
- A free Resend account
- Your current IDP form or template (Word/Sheet) for reference
The problem this kills
Once a year, at review time, a manager and an employee fill in a development plan. Goals, skills to build, a course or two, maybe a target date. It gets signed, saved to a shared drive, and then nobody opens it again until the next review - when everyone scrambles to remember what was even on it.
Development plans die in static forms. There's no nudge to revisit them, no record of what got done, no quarterly check-in, and no easy way for HR to see across the team who's actually progressing. The plan was never the problem. The lack of a living, tracked process was.
What you'll build
A private web app - just for your team - where each employee builds a real Individual Development Plan: development goals, target skills, the learning activities mapped to each goal, milestones, and timelines. The employee drafts it, the manager reviews and approves it before it goes active, and from then on the tool keeps it alive: it tracks milestones, prompts a quarterly review, records progress, and lets the manager confirm goals as complete. HR gets a clean CSV export of every IDP and its current status.
It's private by design - each IDP is visible only to that employee and their manager - and every change is logged: who did what, and when.
What's inside the Implementation Plan
The plan is a complete, paste-and-go runbook for an AI coding agent (Claude Code). You don't write code - you paste, answer questions, and approve.
It opens by interviewing you about your business - your current development-planning process, who runs it, the systems and spreadsheets you use today, how you name skills and competencies, your review cadence, your approval rules, and your messy edge cases (transfers mid-cycle, plans that span two managers, goals that carry over). The tool is then shaped around your answers, not a generic template. After the interview it reflects a short spec back to you for a thumbs-up before it builds anything.
From there it walks step by step through the database, the login, the draft-and-approve flow, milestone tracking, the automated quarterly review prompts, progress recording, and the CSV export - each step ending in a ready-to-paste prompt.
The governance it includes (this is the point)
- Login so only your team can get in.
- Row-level security so an IDP is visible only to that employee and their manager - private by default.
- A human approval gate: the manager reviews and approves the employee's IDP before it becomes active, and approves status changes at each quarterly review. Goal completion is confirmed by the manager, not auto-marked.
- A full audit trail: every draft, edit, approval, and status change is logged with who and when.
- Duplicate guards: the same employee can't get two plans for the same period, and a goal can't be double-counted within a plan.
Who it's for
Managers and HR who create development plans at review time and never look at them again. If you're tired of plans that exist only as a signed PDF on a shared drive, this turns development planning into a living, quarter-by-quarter habit - without buying an expensive talent-management suite.
You've got this - paste the first prompt and let the agent interview you.