An engineering team was losing new hires in weeks 2–3 — not to competing offers, but to frustration. New hires spent 40% of their first 2 weeks waiting for tool access, onboarding calls that weren't scheduled, and documentation that pointed to outdated internal wikis.
The Problem
The onboarding checklist existed. It was a Google Doc last updated 8 months ago. Items were checked off as "complete" when the request was sent, not when access was granted. New hires arrived on Day 1 with no laptop setup, no Slack access, and a calendar full of back-to-back intro calls that left no time to actually do anything.
What HaRi Can Build
Rebuilt the onboarding system: completion-verified checklists (not just sent-confirmation), a personalized 30-60-90-day plan per role, automated welcome messages from the team, pre-scheduled 1:1s with the 5 people they'd work with most in week 1, and a "Day 1 Readiness" dashboard showing IT access status, GitHub invite status, and equipment delivery tracking.
Possible Outcome
With HaRi's onboarding system, teams can typically see "Day 1 readiness" scores rise from the 30s to the high 80s. Week-2 retention tends to improve alongside it, and HR coordination time can drop by around 6 hours per hire — freeing the people ops team for higher-leverage work.
Live Artifact — Onboarding Checklist Dashboard
Pre-Day-1
✅Laptop orderedDone
✅Slack invitedDone
✅GitHub org inviteDone
✅Email provisionedDone
Day 1
✅Welcome call scheduledDone
✅Team intro email sentDone
⏳Manager 1:110am today
⬜Tool walkthroughsThis afternoon
Week 1
⬜Engineering onboarding docDay 2
⬜First PR mergedDay 3-5
⬜30-day plan agreedDay 5