A career roadmap is only as reliable as the data under it. This framework builds yours on three dimensions, each measured from evidence rather than self-description, and then looks for where they agree. The technique is trilateration: the way GPS finds you from three distances, because any single one can be wrong.
What you have proven
What pulls you
What is wanted
Every possible direction gets a score on each dimension. Strengths and market demand count most. Passion tilts the answer toward what you want, but it cannot outvote what you can prove or what the market needs.
The result is then scaled by confidence in the evidence. A thin project log lowers confidence, which lowers every score a little, instead of pretending to certainty. The weights and formulas are shared on request: request the technical note.
The Future Blueprint never gives you one answer. It gives you three, spaced by how far each sits from the work you already do.
Closest to what you already do
The most natural next step from your current work. High confidence, lowest risk, and the one you could start applying for now.
A step further from what you do
An adjacent step up that stretches you into a neighbouring discipline or a bigger scope. Real gaps to close, with a clear route.
Furthest from what you do
An emerging direction that is still credible for someone with exactly your history. Higher risk and higher upside. A direction too far from your history is not offered at all.