What's New in Upsoma - Spring 2026
Spring 2026 release
Here's everything that shipped this quarter - led by the biggest addition to Upsoma yet.
Spotlight: the Skill Telemetry Agent
Technical learning is everywhere, but it's still rarely personal. Most platforms hand you a static roadmap and a completion percentage, with no real sense of what you actually know or what you're ready to learn next.
The new Skill Telemetry Agent changes that. It's the intelligence layer at the foundation of Upsoma that turns raw learner signals into a continuously-updated, domain-specific map of your skills.
What it does
- Real-time readiness scoring. Every learner gets a readiness score (0-100) per concept, updated within seconds of completing a lab, assessment, or project.
- Proficiency levels you can read at a glance. Scores roll up into clear levels - Not Started, Beginner, Developing, Proficient, Advanced - so you always know where you stand.
- Prerequisite-aware gaps. When you're stuck on advanced material, the agent shows the prerequisite concepts you're missing and why - not just that you're behind.
- A living knowledge graph. Concepts and their prerequisites are mapped per domain, launching with Python Backend and Data Engineering.
- Mastery decay. Scores gently decay for concepts you haven't touched, so your skill map reflects what you can do today, not just what you once finished.
Built for teams, too
For engineering managers and L&D leads, the agent powers a new org-level telemetry view:
- Team skill heatmaps by concept and domain, refreshed daily.
- Capability growth over time - trend charts that measure real skill movement, not course completions.
- At-risk flags that surface learners in the bottom of their cohort's growth curve so you can intervene early.
- Exportable gap reports in CSV and JSON.
The Skill Telemetry Agent transforms noisy learner behaviour into a precise map of what each engineer knows, what they're ready to learn next, and how fast they're growing toward role-readiness.
The agent also feeds the rest of Upsoma: the Dynamic Learning Engine uses its skill-gap output to generate adaptive paths, and the Employment Readiness Layer maps scores against role benchmarks.
Note: Spring 2026 ships the V0 of the Skill Telemetry Agent. Cross-organisation benchmarking and automated prerequisite generation are on the roadmap for upcoming releases.
Other highlights
- Faster generation. Pathway generation now streams results instead of blocking on requests.
- Redesigned board. Cleaner cards, keyboard reordering, and inline editing.
- Snapshot history. Every pathway now keeps a versioned history you can roll back to.
Platform foundations
This release also lays the groundwork that the Skill Telemetry Agent and everything after it builds on.
| # | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0.1 | Account creation and authentication (backend) | Sign-up, sign-in, password reset, session management. Email + password to start; social auth optional. |
| 0.2 | Account creation and authentication (frontend) | Sign-up, sign-in, password reset flows. |
| 0.3 | Core data model — learner | Learner entity, profile fields, account metadata. |
| 0.7 | Core data model — events | Generic event log for capturing user interactions, completions, submissions, adaptations. Outcome instrumentation foundation. |
| 0.8 | Application shell (frontend) | Routing, layout, navigation, base styling, authenticated-route handling. |
| 0.9 | Infrastructure baseline | Hosting, CI/CD, environments (dev/staging/prod), logging, monitoring basics. |
| 0.10 | Internal service boundaries | Establish clean service interfaces around skill, content, path, and event capture so the API Platform can be layered on later. |
Smaller improvements
- Resume links no longer expire after 24 hours.
- Usage charts load incrementally.
- Fixed a layout shift on the catalog page.
- Improved contrast across the warm theme.