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url: /onboarding.md
description: Choose a role-based entry point to evaluate or contribute to Wow
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# Evaluate and Contribute

Choose the entry point for the decision you need to make.

| Reader | Decision | First page | Completion signal |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Contributor | Can I build and verify a reviewable Wow change? | [Contributor Guide](./contributor-guide.md) | Local checks pass and the change has a clear review boundary |
| Staff Engineer | Does Wow fit our architecture and operating model? | [Staff Engineer Guide](./staff-engineer-guide.md) | Benefits, invariants, dependencies, migration, and recovery responsibilities are explicit |
| Executive | Is adoption justified by value, cost, and delivery risk? | [Executive Guide](./executive-guide.md) | The decision names expected value, ownership, evidence, and stop conditions |
| Product Manager | Can domain behavior become testable acceptance criteria? | [Product Manager Guide](./product-manager-guide.md) | Commands, events, completion semantics, and failure outcomes are explicit |

## Next Step

1. Developers → [guide/getting-started](../guide/getting-started.md)
2. Architecture or operations evaluators → [guide/introduction](../guide/introduction.md)
3. Contributors → [onboarding/contributor-guide](./contributor-guide.md)