Who it is for
For anyone who needs new hires productive in days, not months — built on AI-generated guides and checklists.
People & Hiring / Intermediate
The Onboarding Engine
Get new hires productive in days, not months, with AI-built guides and checklists.
The problem
It starts with the situation you're actually in.
You're running onboarding as a one-time event, when it needs to work like an engine.
Each part works on its own — a ramp map, a prompting method, a layered checklist set, guides people trust, the wiring that triggers them, and a feedback loop that flags what's breaking. But a pile of good documents is not an onboarding system.
Outcomes
What you'll be able to do.
Get the expertise out of people's heads
Pick any task under your milestones — "configure a new client account," "run the Monday pipeline review," "decide which support tickets to escalate" — and ask the person who does it best to explain how. You get a shrug, a "you just kind of know after a while," and a half-remembered example.
The Pile Problem
A new hire's first day usually arrives as a pile: a welcome email with nine links.
The folder problem
A guide that beats a shoulder-tap on speed still loses if no one knows it exists. On day three, drowning, your new hire won't.
Why annual surveys can't see the problem
A checklist can read 100% complete while the new hire skipped half the guides, pinged a teammate on Slack whenever they got stuck, and never told anyone. Every box is green.
Inside the book
A closer look at the work inside.
Draft Your Ramp Target
Use this prompt to pressure-test your definition. Fill the brackets for your chosen role, then read the output critically — if the AI's restatement of "productive" doesn't match what you'd actually trust, your definition is still too vague. Start with: you are helping me define time-to-productivity for a specific role.
Worked Example: Setting a Ramp Target for One Role
Take a frontline support role at a SaaS company. Here's the reasoning, step by step, so you can copy the moves rather than the answer. Trusted unit of output: independently resolve a Tier-1 ticket at or above the team's quality bar.
Build Your Ramp Map
Take the one-line target you wrote and run the backward pass yourself. Use this prompt to draft the skeleton, then correct it — the AI will guess at your tasks, and only you know which guesses are wrong. Start with: you are helping me reverse-engineer a 90-day ramp for one role.
Is Your Ramp Map Ready to Build From?
Before this map becomes the blueprint for guides and checklists, confirm.
- Every milestone is an observable state, not an activity.
- Milestones are sequenced backward from the dated target, each enabling the next.
- Each milestone names at least one decision the hire must learn to own.
- Each milestone has a proof you could verify from existing tools or a quick check.
- Off-path "nice to know" material is parked in a separate track, not the first 90 days.
Work Backward From the Target, Not Forward From the Org Chart
- Milestones — observable states, not activities. "Can resolve a standard support ticket end to end without escalating" is a milestone.
- Tasks — the concrete actions that build toward a milestone. These are what AI-generated guides and checklists will eventually cover, one task at a time.
- Decisions — the judgment calls that separate someone doing the job from someone trained in the job. New hires ramp slowly when nobody names the decisions they're expected to own.
Build Your Ramp MapInside the book
Visual preview
A diagram you can keep open while you work.
Table of contents
8 chapters, built to be read in order.
01
The Cost of a Slow Start
02
Map the Ramp Before You Automate
03
Turn Knowledge Into Prompts
04
Build the Checklist System
05
Write Guides People Actually Use
06
Wire It Into the Workflow
07
Measure, Get Feedback, and Improve
08
Your Onboarding Engine, Running
180
Pages
12,594
Words
38
Exercises, checklists & tools
8
Chapters
Formats
Three formats. One purchase.
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The Onboarding Engine
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Questions, answered.
Does this include the full book?
Yes. You get the complete edition, including the chapter sequence and internal materials described on this page.
Which formats are included?
EPUB, PDF, and HTML are included so you can read on an e-reader, keep a designed copy, or use the searchable browser version.
What is the refund policy?
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