Progress and achievements

Badlen keeps a list of twenty-seven small things to do, grouped in four tiers, at /progression. It is not in the left-hand menu: you reach it from the ring at the top of the sidebar, from your account’s menu at the top right, or, on a fresh instance, from the Discover Badlen card on the dashboard.

The list exists because most of what the product can tell you needs something from you first. Advice over an empty portfolio says nothing; a budget over uncategorized operations says very little. Each tier ends on a line, What this changes, saying what the application can do once that tier is done.

The four tiers

Tier	Name	What it is for
Sprout	Discovery	Seven steps: an account with a value in it and your investor profile, so net worth, allocation and advice stop being empty.
Leaf	Getting started	Nine: three accounts, ten sorted operations, three months of history, a passed review and an event in your Journey.
Tree	Command	Seven: rules that file what arrives, dated accounts, two-factor authentication, a safety cushion, a budget accurate enough to use.
Trophy	Expert	Four: the course finished, 95% of operations filed, six months of history, one export taken.

Nothing is behind a tier

A tier is not a level you unlock. Every screen, every figure and every setting is reachable from the first minute, achievements can be earned in any order, and the fourth tier says in its own words that nothing new opens there. The list only suggests a reading order.

How an achievement is ticked

Most of them are read from your own data every time the page is opened, so there is nothing to claim: add a third account and Track three accounts is ticked on the next read. The ones that count something show the count (2/3, 64/90) rather than a bar, because the fraction shows how much is left.

The rest are things only your browser knows, sent once when you do them: picking a theme, trying privacy mode, reading a Concept card, opening a simulator, finishing a chapter of the course.

Two of them never need a click. Three months of history and Six months of history count from the day you signed up, or from the oldest point on your curve if it reaches further back. Importing older operations does not move them: they measure how long history has been recorded, not the dates you typed.

Once earned, kept

An achievement that has been earned stays earned: deleting the account that earned it, or turning two-factor authentication back off, does not take the tick away. The one exception is an achievement that is true only because it does not apply to you: dating your PEA and life-insurance accounts when you hold none, or passing a review when you have missed no question. It shows as done without being recorded, so it comes back the day it starts to apply.

Unlocking one raises a card at the bottom right of the screen (one per tier, not one per achievement). It stays for half a minute, and the timer pauses while the pointer or the keyboard focus is on it. An instance older than a day does not get a burst of them on its first read: what was earned before is recorded as already seen.

Reset achievements, in Settings, forgets the ones that were reported from the browser. The ones computed from your own data tick again straight away. The button is on the Delete your account page, beside heavier ones.

The rest of your data

These pages cover the first account and the first line. The rest of what you hold, and the history behind it, comes in by one of five ways, and The five ways in helps you pick the right one.