EarthTeam — Entrance Lobby Workflow

1 · ENTRY

How users reach the Lobby

The Lobby replaces Home as the default post-login landing (slide 6). Returning users can skip via “Go to Home feed”. Variant A (primary): the bottom bar is unchanged — the Lobby is also reachable from a new hamburger-menu “Lobby” item.

2 · FOUR HALLWAYS + AN EXPLORE BLOCK (slides 5–6)

One Lobby, four hallways — where each tile leads

Tap a tile → walk the hallway. Blue = Learn, Gold = Earn, Green = Share, White = Network, Mint = the new Explore block (→ Map). Click any phone image to zoom; open “Build notes & comments” on a card to annotate.

Lobby tile layout — two options for placing Explore

Layout A — Explore as a block

Keep the four tiles (Learn / Earn / Share / Network) and add a wide Explore block beneath them. Nothing is removed; the Lobby is slightly busier.

Layout B — Explore replaces Share

Tiles become Learn / Earn / Explore / Network. Why drop Share? Share and Earn both lead to Add Project — Earn's “add a project” CTA already covers the Share intent, so the Share tile is redundant. Dropping it frees a clean 2×2 slot for Explore, which otherwise has no Lobby entry.

A third option (not recommended)

Replace the Earn tile with Verify. Rejected: Verify already lives in the bottom nav bar, so it'd be repetitive — whereas the Map (Explore) has no entry point besides the nav bar, so surfacing it in the Lobby adds genuinely new reach.

3 · SUB-FLOW A

Add Project — two ways in (Option 1: the form · Option 2: Speed up with AI)

Option 1 is the existing 6-step form — fill it yourself. Option 2 is a “⚡ Speed up with AI” toggle at the top of that same form: upload a PDF/image or paste a link → the ingestion service reads it → the next screen is the same form, prefilled. AI never auto-publishes — you review and edit every field before submitting.

4 · SUB-FLOW B

Onboarding revamp — prefill from LinkedIn / website

Replaces today's monotonous multi-step form with a prefill-first flow and a single review screen. Security gate: link domain vs. verified e-mail domain, https-only, public data only, rate-limited.

5 · NAVIGATION VARIANTS (slide 9)

What ships first vs. the PDF end-state

VARIANT A — PRIMARY (ship first) · bottom bar unchanged

Lobby reached via: ① default post-login landing (app/index.tsx → /lobby) · ② new “Lobby” item in the hamburger menu · ③ optional: tapping the EarthTeam logo. Zero nav-bar rework — ships with build step 1. gAia keeps its center tab.

VARIANT B — PDF slide 9 end-state (build step ⑤) · LOBBY takes the center slot

Changes vs. A: LOBBY replaces the center gAia slot — always one tap away. gAia moves inside the Learn and Network hallways as a guide, not a standalone tab. Do this only once hallways prove out (slide 11 sequences the nav restructure last).

6 · STILL OPEN

Decisions carried forward & build order

Open decisions (slide 11)

Lobby every session vs. default-hallway skip — recommend: every session until the user sets a default
gAia in-hallway vs. standalone tab — Variant A keeps the tab
“Solutions” vs. “Miracles” vs. “Magic” naming
CTOC portal URL(s) — needs content owner
Internships source (Learn tile copy) — nothing in-app today

Build order

① Lobby + redirect + hamburger entry
② Earn hallway + Learn preset (pure frontend)
③ Smart-import + onboarding revamp (backend pair)
④ Partners directory
⑤ Nav Variant B restructure — once hallways prove out

New backend needed

/v2/projects/extract/ — doc/URL → structured project fields
/v2/onboarding/enrich/ — public LinkedIn/site data + domain check
/v2/partners/ — org profiles + per-org stats (interim: hardcoded)
List-view filter params (projectType, org)