Mon · day 22
Send the workshop agenda
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For your first 90 days in a new tech role
The 90 days nobody
trained you for.
FirstNinety is a private workplace coach for newly trained Business Analysts, Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Data Analysts, and AI Engineers. Available the moment you need it. Calibrated to your role, your week, and the review at the end of it.
· No credit card to start· Cancel any time· $39.99 / month after trial
Why this exists
Training ends. The job doesn’t.
On Monday morning you are asked for a business requirements document, a sprint backlog, a dashboard spec — something you have studied but never produced under pressure. The page is blank. Your bootcamp showed you the finished artefact; it could not show you how senior practitioners actually start, which paragraph to write first, or what to do when the sponsor cannot articulate what they want.
Twenty minutes before a workshop the questions sharpen. The lead developer thinks the meeting is a waste of time. Compliance has not been briefed. Two stakeholders will arrive late. You are walking in live, and the calm advice in the textbook is not pitched at thirty minutes from now. You need a sentence to open the room and a way to land the requirement that matters before scope is hijacked by the loudest voice.
Then comes the quiet kind of doubt that does not surface in standups. Your manager said something terse in 1:1. A peer was promoted off the team. The Slack channel went silent after your last update. Is this normal, or is this a signal? You cannot ask the people around you without admitting you do not know — so you ask no one, and the worry compounds.
And then, somewhere around Day 70, a single conversation gets booked into your calendar — the one that decides whether you keep the job. The first 90 days are the rehearsal. Your probation review is the performance.
FirstNinety is built for this gap.
How it works
Six tools. One purpose.
A small, deliberate kit for the moments training did not prepare you for — running on the same coach, calibrated to your role and the week you are on.
01On-demand
Situation Room
One field. Three soft labels above it — I need help with this, is this normal?, I just did something. You write the sentence you would otherwise text a senior colleague, and the coach answers in their register, not a chatbot’s.
It is built for the twenty minutes before a workshop and the twenty minutes after a 1:1 went strangely. No chrome, no menu, no warm-up. Just the question and an answer that respects your time.
I need help with thisIs this normal?I just did somethingsituation-room.tsx
Workshop in 20 min. Lead dev doesn’t want to be there
Anonymise names. Be specific.↵ Enter
scenario · the hostile lead dev
- SASam · lead dev
- PRPriya · sponsor
- MAMarcus · compliance
Capture the top five requirements without losing the room.
30 minutes · BA · week 4
02Rehearsal
Scenario Simulator
Rehearse the meeting before you walk in. Each scenario is a piece of editorial fiction with a specific objective, a specific antagonist, and a rubric — green flags, yellow flags, red flags — so the debrief tells you, honestly, what you did and what to try next time.
Personas are archetypes, not characters. The hostile lead dev. The vague sponsor. The cautious compliance lead. They stay in role; they will not magically agree because you are polite.
03Conversation
AI Coach
The engine underneath the rest. It speaks like a senior colleague who has watched you survive the bad day before — direct, dry, occasionally warm, never patronising. It will disagree with you when it should.
No “great question.” No life-advice mode. No emoji. It stays scoped to tradecraft and to the role and week you are in, and defaults to specific examples over abstract advice.
coach · debrief
YOU
The standup ran long again. I let it.
COACH
“You held the room. You also let Marcus’s compliance question slip — in a real workshop that comes back, often after the room is empty.”
· Pulling the BRD playbook · margin note #2
brd · regulatory variant
2. Compliance & data residency
3. Stakeholders
MARGIN · §2
Lead with the constraint. The sponsor will try to relegate this to an appendix; do not let them.
MARGIN · §3
Name the person who can stop the project. Then name the person who will.
04Worked examples
Playbook Library
Worked examples, not empty templates. A BRD is generic; a BRD with margin notes explaining why each section is written the way it is — that’s the Playbook. Annotations are written in the voice of a senior practitioner showing their reasoning, not lecturing.
Two variants per artefact, at minimum: greenfield and regulatory. Plus the common mistakes a junior is most likely to make, named by name.
0590-day programme
90-Day Mission Track
Thirteen weeks of structured missions, each 15 to 30 minutes, sequenced to where you actually are. Week 1 is “land softly”. Week 7 is the mid-probation recalibration. Week 12 is your end-of-probation prep.
Day 1 is almost entirely empty by design — a single mission card, the rest of the week visible but greyed. We are not throwing 90 days at you. We are starting with today.
week 4 · BA
Tue · day 23 · today
Run your first requirements workshop
30 min · simulator
Wed · day 24
Debrief and circulate
15 min
probation-brief · day 78
Probation brief
Draft · v2
Three things I have done that prove the hire.
- 1.
- 2.
- 3.
BA · WEEK 1212 days to review
06For the final 21 days
Probation Prep Mode.
Three weeks before your probation review, FirstNinety sharpens around the conversation. The Coach changes voice. The Mission Track changes shape. A one-page Brief gets drafted from everything you have done these 90 days — the work, the conversations, the moments that mattered.
Most probation reviews are decided weeks before the review itself. The conversation just confirms what your manager already thinks. The 21 days that matter most are the ones before the room.
Pricing
$39.99 per month.
The first three months of FirstNinety cost $120. The difference between losing your first tech job and keeping it costs less than one human coaching session per month. That’s the comparison worth making.
Human career coach — one session$150–$300
BetterUp Plus$149/ mo
ChatGPT Plus$20/ mo
FirstNinety Pro$39.99/ mo