What we changed after the June pilot
A pilot class of 25 students spent June using Blueprint for real. They found the rough edges we could not see, and we spent the month fixing them.
By Thiago Cavalcanti
In early June, a partner school put a class of 25 students on Blueprint, and watching real students use the product taught us more than months of our own testing. Three things stood out. First, quiz wording we thought was obvious confused actual 17-year-olds, so we rewrote the unclear questions. Second, some match results felt off to students who knew their own profiles well, so we recalibrated how match quality is scored. Third, students live on their phones far more than our analytics predicted, so we spent real time on mobile polish.
None of these were glamorous fixes. All of them made the product meaningfully better. That is exactly what a pilot is for, and we are grateful to the class that stress-tested us before launch.