Everybody starts in the same place.
Three required blocks that every single person at MBL takes, whatever they do and whoever signs their cheque. Then the track that matches the job. Then, only where the work demands it, the blocks that are held back until somebody is actually doing that work. A person's level is what they have been trained and signed off on, not how long they have been here.
The core, and it is not optional
Everyone, day one, before a track
Chase's point, and it is the right one: a new hire is expected to arrive at a level, and that level assumes Scoop. So the core is MBL basics and Scoop basics, together, and nobody skips to the interesting part.
- MBL Foundations. The two ways we work, the six delivery orgs, who actually supplies the crews, why documentation is the deliverable, and what honesty, integrity and family mean in practice. Live
- Safety at MBL. Why we are hard on it, Site Docs and JHAs, what happens when something goes wrong, and how safety runs day to day. Live
- Scoop Basics. What a scoop is and is not, one scoop is one piece of work, stages and the one that will stop you, Blocks and fields that move, and what good looks like in a record. Live
All three are written, both tracks, both languages. The core is the same fourteen lessons whichever track you land in, with the examples swapped to match the surface you actually work on. That is on purpose: a coordinator and a foreman should come out of it using the same words for the same things.
The track that matches the job
| Track | Who | Surface | What is in it | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office & Admin | PMs, coordinators, admin, BD | Web | Core, then Business Development in Scoop and Project Management & Admin | Live · EN and ES |
| Field Operations | Techs, crews, superintendents, millwrights | App | Core, then Field Operations | Live · EN and ES |
| Third party | Outside engineers, inspectors, owner's reps | App or web | Scoop only. Getting in, and logging what you find. | Live |
| Service & O&M | Service techs, O&M | Web + app | SRVC ticket end to end, review gate, billing tail | Live · EN and ES |
The third-party track is deliberately not a smaller version of the internal course. Outside firms do not need the six delivery orgs or the fiscal year. They need to get into Scoop, find the job they were asked to walk, and write up what they saw so it lands somewhere a PM will actually see it. Seven lessons, about sixteen minutes, and it is the link that goes out in the invitation email.
Held back until the work calls for it
Leading at MBL Gated
Six lessons, twenty minutes, L3. The day the job stops being your hands, setting the week, holding the standard when it costs you, owning somebody else's record, when it goes wrong, and building the person behind you.
It sits in both tracks and it is the same block, with one lesson written twice: office gets Setting the week, field gets The first fifteen minutes. Nobody sees it unless the matrix says they are foreman or above.
Genesis Third-Party Inspection By name only
Five lessons, twelve minutes, L3, app only. One job, four visits, four records, four signed PDFs.
The one exception to everything else on this page. Never assigned by role, by company, or by level. It goes to named people on the approved list and to nobody else.
Both of these are hidden rather than locked. A person who is not on the list does not see a greyed-out card with a padlock on it, because a padlock is an invitation to ask why. They see a course that does not mention it, and the quiz shrinks to match, so nobody gets asked about a block they were never shown.
The block inventory
| Block | Track | Level | Surface | Lessons | Min | Assigned by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MBL Foundations | Office + Field | L1 | Both | 5 | 18 / 16 | Everyone |
| Safety at MBL | Office + Field | L1 | Both | 4 | 14 / 13 | Everyone |
| Scoop Basics | Office + Field | L1 | Both | 5 | 15 / 14 | Everyone |
| Business Development in Scoop | Office | L2 | Web | 5 | 16 | Role |
| Project Management & Admin | Office | L2 | Web | 4 | 15 | Role |
| Field Operations | Field | L2 | App | 5 | 19 | Role |
| Leading at MBL | Office + Field | L3 | Both | 6 | 20 | Matrix gate |
| Genesis Third-Party Inspection | Field | L3 | App | 5 | 12 | Named list |
| Getting into Scoop | Third party | — | Both | 3 | 6 | Email invite |
| Logging what you find | Third party | — | Both | 4 | 10 | Email invite |
Where two numbers appear, the block is written twice with the same lessons and different examples. A superintendent should not have to translate a web screenshot in their head, and a coordinator should not be reading about a phone they never use.
Broken down by who supplies the crew
MBL is the general contractor and carries no field labor of its own. Crews come in through three companies, and each one brings requirements the others do not have. This is where the specialist blocks will live, and none of them are written yet.
Laborers, Iron Workers, Operators
Signatory to three trades, so three sets of agreements, apprentice ratios and jurisdiction rules. Planned: rigging and steel erection, trench and excavation, operator qualification.
Millwright, fab, O&M, logistics
The widest spread of any of them. Millwright and the Fresno fabrication shop, plus nonunion electrical and construction, O&M, logistics and trucking. Planned: millwright and pipe, welding and fab, driver and equipment.
IBEW electrical
All IBEW electrical work. Planned: electrical safety and LOTO, commissioning, high voltage and interconnection. This is the crew already tracked in the equipment certs workbook.
The overlap that will confuse people, so say it out loud
Millwright is one of the six delivery orgs, and the millwright team also lives inside Anchor. The six orgs are how the work gets delivered. These three companies are who supplies the crews. Same company, two different lenses. Every version of this map should carry that line.
What a level actually certifies
| Level | Name | What it clears you to do | Blocks at this level |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1 | Foundation | You understand how MBL is put together and what the standard is. Cleared to work under supervision. | Foundations, Safety, Scoop Basics |
| L2 | Practitioner | You can run your own work without somebody checking every field behind you. | BD in Scoop, PM & Admin, Field Operations |
| L3 | Lead | You own the record, you sign off other people's work, and you train the next person. | Leading at MBL, Genesis inspection |
These are meant to line up with the L1, L2 and L3 tech levels in the Service app, which turns "what is an L2 allowed to do" into "an L2 completed and signed the L2 blocks." That still needs Derek to confirm, and it is the highest-value unanswered question on this page.
Written twice or not at all
Office and field both ship in English and Spanish with a toggle in the header, and the choice sticks to the device. Terms that appear on the actual screen stay in English on purpose. Telling somebody to look for el Bloque when the button says Block makes the translation worse than useless.
Every block written from now on gets authored in both at the same time. Retrofitting a translation costs several times what writing it alongside does, and the seam always shows. We know, because we did it once and it did.
The third-party track is English only, and that is a decision rather than an omission. It goes to firms, not to crews, and it can be revisited the first time a firm asks.
Recordings where they are honest, drawings where they are not
Every lesson that is about a screen carries either a short screen recording from MBL's own Scoop or a drawn figure. Which one it gets is a judgement, not a budget:
Recording
Four clips, seven to thirteen seconds each, silent, pinned to the one lesson each actually illustrates and captioned with what is on screen rather than with the lesson's theme.
Used where a real record shows the real thing: the list, the form, the Blocks, the board.
Drawn figure
Three figures, drawn to the brand, with the point of the lesson called out on the screen itself.
Used in the three places a recording would mislead. Both third-party lessons, because a recording of our Scoop shows an outside firm every job we have running and a view they will never actually have. And the field photo lesson, because the whole point is the difference between a photo that reached the job and one still on the phone, and no single screen shows both.
The rule behind it
A clip on the wrong lesson is worse than no clip, because the learner assumes they missed something. Two lessons deliberately have neither: What good looks like in a record, since the only record we have on film is an untouched one and a blank record is the opposite of that lesson, and Where a job comes from, which is not about a screen at all.
What is actually built, right now
This table is read out of the live course files rather than typed, so it cannot drift from what a learner gets. 12 blocks, 86 lessons, about 317 minutes. Last generated September 18, 2026.
| Block | Who | Size | Video | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MBL Foundations | Everyone at MBL | 5 lessons · 18 min | 0 videos | Live · every lesson has a voice |
| Safety at MBL | Everyone at MBL | 4 lessons · 14 min | 0 videos | Live · every lesson has a voice |
| Scoop Basics | Everyone at MBL | 11 lessons · 33 min | 8 videos | Live |
| Business Development | BD, sales, estimating | 10 lessons · 35 min | 2 videos | Live · every lesson has a voice |
| Project Management & Admin | PMs, coordinators, office | 9 lessons · 37 min | 3 videos | Live · every lesson has a voice |
| Field Operations | Techs, crews, inspectors | 8 lessons · 27 min | 2 videos | Live |
| Genesis Third-Party Inspection | Approved inspectors only | 5 lessons · 12 min | 1 video | Live · every lesson has a voice |
| Service & O&M | Service techs, O&M, PMs and coordinators | 10 lessons · 41 min | 0 videos | Live · every lesson has a voice |
| Handover & Closeout | PMs, coordinators, superintendents, crews | 6 lessons · 26 min | 1 video | Live · every lesson has a voice |
| Permits, Interconnection and PTO | PMs, coordinators, project admin | 5 lessons · 26 min | 0 videos | Live · every lesson has a voice |
| Building the Job | Superintendents, foremen, PMs, coordinators | 6 lessons · 28 min | 0 videos | Live · every lesson has a voice |
| Leading at MBL | Foreman and above, superintendents, PMs, coordinators | 7 lessons · 20 min | 1 video | Live · every lesson has a voice |
What gets written next, and why in this order
| # | Block | Why now | Blocked on |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Service & O&M | Service is the growth push this year and the newest org, so its people are the least trained. It is specced and the ticket flow is understood. | Walkthrough audio from the O&M sessions |
| 2 | Endeavor electrical | The only crew with cert data already collected, so it is the cheapest to connect to recert tracking. | Content owner |
| 3 | Anchor millwright and fab | Widest spread of work, least documented, most tribal knowledge at risk. | Content owner |
| 4 | Genesis trades | Three unions, three sets of rules. Most content, so it goes once the pattern is proven on a smaller one. | Content owner |
Open items, honestly
Roster and matrix
Seventy-five people are staged and ready to import, and the twelve matrix rows are written but unconfirmed. Until a row is confirmed, the gate stays shut, which is the safe direction to fail but it does mean no one sees Leading at MBL yet.
Content sign-off
Chase and Colby have not read the final cut of Foundations and Safety. The Spanish has not been read out loud by a bilingual crew member, which is the only way you catch the lines that are correct but sound like a manual.
One placeholder
The third-party track still holds one thing we chose not to guess: the exact wording of the Scoop invitation email. It is a single-point edit. The screenshot that used to be the second placeholder is now a drawn figure, so it no longer waits on anything.
Entity blocks
Anchor, Endeavor and Genesis all need somebody inside them to own the content. Nothing in stage four gets written until that person is named, and writing it without them would just create something to unwrite.