How to Get Started with Weyd: Goal, Diagnostic, Plan

Most users who open Weyd for the first time do the same thing: they poke around the dashboard, log a session or two, and wait to see what happens.

That's the wrong order.

Weyd is a personalization engine. It can't do anything useful until it knows three things: what you're trying to achieve, where you currently are, and how much time you have. The onboarding flow is designed to collect this — but users who skip through it quickly end up with a plan that doesn't fit them.

This guide walks you through the three setup steps that actually activate Weyd.

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Step 1: Set Your Goal

Your goal determines everything downstream — which skills Weyd tracks, how it structures your plan, which AI coaching prompts apply to your situation, and how it interprets your progress data.

Go to: Dashboard → Plan → Edit Goal

The goal categories you'll see:

• Conversational fluency — general ability to understand and be understood in conversation
• Exam preparation — JLPT, DELE, DALF, HSK, TOPIK, or similar; includes certification-specific content
• Business/professional — workplace communication in your target language
• Heritage language — reconnecting with a language you have background exposure to but haven't formally studied
• Travel — functional ability for a specific context or trip
• Academic — reading and writing for academic purposes

What to specify:

1. The language you're learning
2. Your current level (roughly)
3. The deadline or timeframe (even a rough one — "within 2 years" is useful)
4. Your primary motivation

The AI coach uses your goal to filter its recommendations. Someone preparing for JLPT N2 needs different advice than someone learning Spanish for a work relocation — even if they're at the same level.

Common mistake: Choosing a vague goal like "get better at French" without specifying any target. The more specific you are, the more useful the plan and coaching become.

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Step 2: Run the Diagnostic

The diagnostic is a 10–15 minute adaptive assessment that establishes your current skill profile across the four core areas: listening, reading, vocabulary, and grammar.

Go to: Dashboard → Skills → Take Assessment

What the diagnostic does:

• Presents questions that adapt based on your answers — harder questions if you're answering correctly, easier ones if you miss
• Estimates your current level in each skill area separately (you might be B1 in vocabulary but A2 in listening — this is common and important to know)
• Establishes a baseline that Weyd uses to track your actual progress over time

Why it matters: Without the diagnostic, Weyd can only infer your level from your activity data, which takes weeks to accumulate. The diagnostic gives it a starting point immediately. Every coaching recommendation, plan allocation, and plateau detection depends on knowing where you currently are.

How long it takes: About 10–15 minutes. You'll see a progress indicator. If you run out of time, you can save and resume — your results so far will be saved.

After the diagnostic: You'll see a skill profile showing your estimated level and confidence score for each skill. Confidence is important: formal (from the assessment) is the most reliable, self-reported is next, inferred (from activity patterns) is the least reliable. Running the diagnostic upgrades your skill estimates from inferred to formal.

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Step 3: Review Your Plan

After setting your goal and completing the diagnostic, Weyd generates a learning plan. The plan is the core output of the personalization engine.

Go to: Dashboard → Plan

Your plan contains:

• Weekly skill allocation — how many minutes per week you should spend on each skill area, based on your goal and current gaps
• Recommended activities — specific practice types for each skill (e.g., "active listening with transcript for 20 minutes, 3x per week")
• Phase structure — what you should be focusing on now vs. later in your learning journey
• Tool recommendations — which integrations or apps are most relevant for your goal

The plan adapts. This isn't a static PDF — Weyd monitors your actual activity and adjusts the plan when:

• You're consistently over- or under-allocating time to a skill
• A skill shows plateau patterns (improvement has stalled)
• Your activity data suggests your current level estimate was inaccurate
• You reach a milestone and the focus should shift

How to use the plan: Check it weekly, not daily. The plan sets your strategic priorities. Your daily practice decisions should follow the plan's skill allocations, but the specific activities can vary.

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What Happens If You Skip These Steps

If you skip goal-setting: Weyd generates a generic plan. The AI coach gives you generic advice. The plan can't adapt because it doesn't know what you're adapting toward.

If you skip the diagnostic: Your skill profile starts from inferred data (your integrations, your activity logs). This takes 2–4 weeks to stabilize. In the meantime, recommendations may not fit your actual level.

If you skip the plan review: You'll log activity without understanding how it maps to your goal. You'll be practicing without a system.

The 20–25 minutes these three steps take will pay dividends in every coaching session and plan adjustment that follows.

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Next Steps

Once your goal, diagnostic, and plan are in place:

1. Connect your integrations — Settings → Integrations. Connecting Duolingo, Anki, LingQ, or YouTube means Weyd can track your real activity automatically.
2. Log your first session — Chat with Weyd about what you practiced, or paste a screenshot from any learning app.
3. Check your weekly quotas — Dashboard → Progress. This shows how your actual practice maps to your plan targets.

The setup is done once. The value accumulates from there.