Five steps. No account, no conviction details, and a reason attached to every single thing we tell you to do.
A ZIP code or city, roughly where you are in the process, whether you are on supervision, and which of the categories you need. Everything is optional and each question explains why it is being asked before you answer it.
We never ask what you were convicted of, your registry tier, your case number, your officer's name, or your home address. Those details would change nothing about which resources exist near you.
Order is the part that is hard to work out alone. Identification before job applications. Supervision reporting before everything. Housing started early because it takes the longest. That ordering is what the plan is for.
Your answers are matched against the directory and the steps are ordered by what unblocks the most — documents before applications, transportation before a start date. It is rule-based, not a model: every step traces to a rule you can read. Each one carries a rationale line, because a plan you can't interrogate is just another list of chores.
Steps carry organisation links, with what they do, who they serve, what it costs, whether you can walk in, and when the listing was last checked. In the example plan those are a fixed set around Elmira, New York — no search runs against your location. Searching by ZIP is what the finder does today, and it works now.
Mark a step done as you go, and the progress bar moves. In progress and blocked appear where the example sets them; setting them yourself comes with the rest of the builder. Progress being visible is the point — a hard week should read as a pause rather than a failure.
Where a step touches law, supervision, licensing, or registration, the page shows what the source says, when it was last verified, and a link straight to the government, court, or legal-aid publication behind it.
Atlas Redeemed does not tell you what the law means for your case. It flags a potential restriction, names the authority who can answer, and gets out of the way.
Your plan lives in your browser by default. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is tied to a name, and you can clear it in one action.
Accounts are planned for the things a browser can't do — using the same plan on a different phone, or getting a reminder. Neither is open yet, and nothing sends you a reminder today. When accounts arrive they stay optional, and the site does not degrade if you never make one.
These three decisions shape everything else in the product. Here they are in full.
Browsing, searching, reading every guide and legal topic, filtering by location, and answering the plan questions all work with no account and no name — which is just as well, because accounts are not open. Your answers and your step progress are stored in your own browser, not on our servers, and you can clear them in one action.
We never ask for: your conviction, your registry tier or offence, probation or parole case details, your officer’s name, your home address, or your legal documents. Not in the plan builder, not in the navigator, not anywhere.
The most specific location we ask for is a ZIP code or city, and only so the finder can sort by distance. You can skip it and browse nationally.
An account will only be for what a browser genuinely can’t do — the same plan on a different phone, or a reminder. Neither is built yet. When it opens it will be opt-in, and nothing is withheld from people who never make one.
The full detail, including what is stored in each mode and how to delete it, is on the privacy page.
Atlas Redeemed is pre-launch. Several of the most eye-catching features are demonstrations of an interface rather than working systems, and they are labelled that way here and on the pages themselves.
| Feature | Status | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| Resource directory & location finder | Live today | National organisations are real and verified. Local coverage is still being built out, and demonstration records are labelled as such. |
| Category and guide pages | Live today | Every category and guide is readable now, with no account. |
| Your Rights — legal topics with sources | Live today | Each topic carries citations and a last-verified date. |
| Registry & supervision resources | Live today | Routes to each state's own registration authority rather than restating requirements. |
| Job board with background-policy labels | Live today | Listings are demonstration records during pre-launch and are marked. Employer policy is never asserted without a source. |
| Atlas Plan builder | Live today | The questionnaire is real, your answers stay in your browser, and the plan is generated from them by rule-matching against the directory. Saving it across devices needs an account, which does not exist yet. |
| AI Navigator — ask a question in your own words | In development | What you can use today is a scripted demonstration of the interface. The retrieval system behind it is not connected yet, and the demo is labelled on the page. |
| Job Analyzer — read a posting against your situation | Live today | It really does read the posting you paste: the requirement, screening, and licensing lines come from phrases in that text. It is keyword matching, not a model, and it reads the posting only — never your record. |
| Interview Coach | In development | Structure and prompts are real; the generated feedback is a demonstration. |
| Map view of nearby resources | In development | List view is the reliable one right now. Map rendering and geocoding are not finished. |
| Reporting a bad listing | In development | The control is on every card and needs no account, but there is no review queue behind it — nothing is stored and no listing changes. It says so when you send one. Email reaches a person in the meantime. |
| Accounts, saved plans across devices | Planned | The schema exists; the flow is not open. Everything works anonymously in the meantime. |
| Reminders and check-ins | Planned | Opt-in only, and it will require telling us how to reach you — which is why it comes after accounts. |
Why we're telling you this
No paid tier, no upsell, no listing fees from organisations. Nothing in the directory is ranked for commercial reasons, because there are none.
Most people doing this are doing it on a phone, sometimes on library wifi. Pages are built to load and read under those conditions.
Atlas Redeemed explains what sources say and links to them. It does not tell you what will happen in your case, and it never will. Read the terms.
Takes a few minutes. Nothing sensitive, nothing stored anywhere but your own browser.