Who Is This For

This documentation serves everyone building on or operating Blue Dots. Find your role below and jump to the right starting point.

Adaptors & implementers

You want to deploy Blue Dots for a district, state or domain.

• Start with Blue Dots as a DPG for the model.
• Read The Blue Dot Lifecycle for the seven steps a participant walks, and who owns each one.
• Then follow Adaptor Onboarding and the Installation guides.
• Tailor the deployment with Customisation & Branding.

Follow the full path → Deploy for a district

Backend & platform engineers

You will run, extend or integrate the Signals and Aggregator DPGs.

• Read Architecture and Technical Documentation.
• Use the API Conventions guide, the generated API Reference and Configuration.

Follow the full path → Build & integrate

Aggregator organisations

You are an institute, employer, NGO or government department onboarding participants.

• See Core Concepts → Aggregators — including who qualifies and the four intake methods.
• Walk The Blue Dot Lifecycle, especially the verification and Blue Dot Verified steps you own.
• Follow the Aggregator DPG Setup guide.

Follow the full path → Onboard participants

Program & policy stakeholders

You care about outcomes and impact at district scale.

• Read the Overview and Explore → Use Cases and Pilots.
• Then What We’re Learning on the Ground for what live district operations are showing.

Follow the full path → Evaluate impact

Contributors

You want to improve the DPGs or this documentation.

• Read Contributing for the engineering gate and the docs workflow.
• Recent changes are in the Release Notes; planned work is on the Roadmap.

Tip

New to the vocabulary? Keep the Glossary open in a second tab — the terms network, domain, instance, item, action and event recur everywhere.