The problem this solves
Onboarding is where bought becomes used, or fails to. Common shapes of the failure: a kickoff call followed by a customer-side task list nobody chases, weeks where the customer cannot say what is happening or who owns it, teams trained once on software they will not touch until a month later, and no definition of onboarding done beyond the invoice being paid. Early churn is usually decided here, long before any renewal conversation, and it is the churn that references and expansion revenue never recover from.
How we work
We audit a sample of recent onboardings from the record: project threads, CRM and ticket history, and timelines from signature to first demonstrated value, across both smooth cases and known-bad ones, because comparing the two reveals what actually drives the difference. Where possible we interview recently onboarded customers about the experience while it is still fresh.
We examine structure as much as execution: whether onboarding has defined stages and exit criteria, how customer-side work gets extracted, where progress is visible to the customer, and what triggers escalation when an onboarding stalls.
The deliverable is an onboarding findings report with a measured baseline of time to value across your recent cohort, the stall points ranked by frequency and damage, and redesign recommendations: stage structure, customer-facing milestones, ownership rules, and the early-warning signals worth instrumenting in your CRM.
Deliverables
- Reconstruction of recent onboardings across smooth and stalled cases
- Measured time-to-value baseline for the recent cohort
- Stall point analysis ranked by frequency and revenue damage
- Structure review: stages, exit criteria, ownership, and customer visibility
- Redesign recommendations with early-warning instrumentation for your CRM