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Your new hire's best first month starts before their first day.

Day One gives every new hire a concierge that knows your company — a ramp plan generated from the actual role, instant cited answers to every "stupid question," and a tracker that shows you exactly where they are. Your senior people stop losing Fridays to repeated explanations.

Day One — new hire concierge Maya is ramping
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Maya — new hire, day 3 Engineer
Ramp tracker
30 / 60 / 90 — Engineer
Ramp curve — Maya vs average hire
Maya Average hire
Senior interruptions
this week
14 14
Questions answered: 0 Citations given: 0 Stale docs flagged: 0 Milestones done: 0
42 days
average time-to-productivity for a knowledge hire. That's the number we're cutting.
14
questions a new hire asks in week one that someone senior answers. Every time, from scratch.
23%
of new hires quit in the first 90 days when onboarding is chaos. The offer letter didn't cause it — the void after it did.
2 hrs
your team's weekly time cost after Day One. Down from a standing Friday-afternoon tutorial.

The problem

You hired smart people. Then you handed them a wiki and a shrug.

Every new hire follows the same arc: excitement, confusion, silence. They stop asking because asking feels stupid. Your senior people answer the same questions on repeat. And nobody can tell you if the hire is ramping or drowning until month three.

01 / The repeat loop

Onboarding is senior people repeating themselves. Your staff engineer has explained the deploy process to every hire for two years — same questions, same answers, same Friday afternoon gone. The knowledge never leaves their head.

02 / The stale wiki

The wiki is stale and the new hire knows it. They follow a 2022 runbook, break staging, and learn the real lesson fast: don't trust the docs, don't ask, just wait for someone to notice.

03 / The invisible ramp

Is Maya on track? You can't see if a hire is ramping or drowning until month three — when they either ship something or quit. There's no dashboard for "is this working." Just vibes.

How it works

Two weeks from your docs to a concierge that knows your company.

Week 1 — Ingest everything

Docs, wikis, past decisions, org chart, the Slack threads that settled arguments. Plus what "ramped" actually means per role — not a generic template, the real milestones your team already uses.

Week 2 — Dry-run with a recent hire

Someone who joined six months ago grades the answers. They know which questions actually get asked and which answers would have saved them a week. We fix what's wrong before anyone new sees it.

Live — Concierge + tracker

The new hire gets instant cited answers and a visible plan. You get the ramp curve and the interruption count. Stale docs are flagged as they're encountered — the system heals the wiki as a side effect.

The difference

The wiki says "ask anyone." Day One is anyone.

Same new hire, same week one. Left is what happens with a wiki and good intentions. Right is what happens with Day One.

✕ The wiki + "ask anyone"

Day 3. The new hire finds the deploy runbook. It's from 2022. Step 4 references a tool you migrated off last year. They follow it anyway — nobody told them not to.

Staging breaks. A senior engineer spends 40 minutes unbreaking it. The new hire learns the real lesson: stop asking, stop reading, just wait.

⚠ The doc was wrong. The hire was right to trust it. Both lose.
✓ Day One

Day 3. The new hire asks "Where do I find the deploy runbook?" and gets the answer in seconds — cited [runbook §2] with a green "verified current" check.

When they ask about CI, the answer arrives with an amber flag: "⚠ This doc is 8 months old — flagged for review, double-check with Priya." The doc gets fixed. The hire keeps moving. And you can see all of it on the ramp tracker.

✓ Cited. Current-flagged. Progress visible. Nobody loses a Friday.

Pricing

Fixed fee. Agreed bar. Miss it and you don't pay.

No per-seat pricing, no per-hire charges, no invoice that grows with your headcount. You know the number before we start.

The build — 2 weeks
$4,000 fixed fee
  • Knowledge ingest — docs, wikis, decisions, org chart
  • Role-specific 30/60/90 ramp plans with real milestones
  • Concierge with cited answers and staleness flags
  • Ramp tracker with curve and interruption count
  • Dry-run graded by a recent hire before going live
Start the build →
After the build
$400 /month
  • Unlimited hires — no per-seat pricing
  • Monthly staleness report — what drifted, what's flagged
  • New roles added as you create them
  • Cancel any month; your data leaves with you
Ask a question →
§ The guarantee: before going live, we agree the bar in writing — typically 90% of a test set of real new-hire questions answered correctly with valid citations. If the measured number misses the bar at the end of the build, you don't pay the build fee. I'd rather lose the fee than hand a new hire a system that guesses.

Questions

The things everyone asks before handing over the playbook.

Does this work for client onboarding too?

Yes — same system, different hat. Instead of a new hire asking about deploy runbooks, a new client asks about your process, your timelines, your deliverables. The concierge answers from your proposals, your past project notes, your scope documents. The tracker shows you whether the client is engaged or going quiet. Agencies use it for both sides of the door.

What if our docs are a mess?

That's the normal starting state — nobody calls me from a tidy wiki. The ingest week maps what exists, what's missing, and what contradicts itself. Then the staleness flags start fixing it: every time someone hits an outdated answer, it's flagged for review with a named owner. Most clients say the flagging alone was worth the fee.

Where do the answers come from?

Your actual documents — wikis, runbooks, past decisions, the Slack threads that settled arguments, your org chart. Every answer carries a citation so the hire can check the source, and when the source is stale, the answer says so. Nothing is invented; everything traces back to something your company actually wrote down.

What HR tools does it connect to?

It doesn't need to. Day One sits alongside your existing stack — it's not an HRIS, not an LMS, not a replacement for BambooHR or Workday. It reads from your docs and your chat. If you want start dates pulled from your HRIS so the tracker begins on day zero, that's a straightforward integration — but the core system works with what you already have.

What happens when someone leaves?

Their access is revoked and their knowledge stays — it was captured from your documents, not from their head. Anything they were the named owner of gets flagged for re-verification, so a departure surfaces the gaps instead of hiding them. The next hire into that role inherits everything the last one had to learn the hard way.

Fit

Who this is for — and who should keep their money.

✓ Built for

  • Teams hiring 3+ people a year — the questions repeat, the answers shouldn't have to
  • Agencies and consultancies onboarding clients on a repeatable process
  • Remote-first companies where "tap someone on the shoulder" doesn't exist
  • Leads who'd rather fix onboarding once than re-explain it every quarter

✕ Not for

  • Companies hiring one person every two years — just do it by hand
  • Anyone wanting an HRIS, payroll, or contracts — wrong tool, wrong problem
  • Teams with zero written docs and no appetite to write any during week one
  • Anyone wanting a generic course library — that's an LMS, this isn't

Next step

Your next hire is already signed. Their first month is still unwritten.

Tell me what you're hiring for, where your docs live, and how the last onboarding actually went. I'll tell you honestly whether Day One pays for itself — and if it doesn't, what to do instead.

Replies within one business day — from a human, not the concierge.