Get new engineers to their first meaningful PR, faster.
Onboard turns your codebase, tickets, and team conversations into personalized onboarding. Not more documentation, a reconstruction of how your company actually works.
- Personalized to each engineer
- Grounded in your real company context
- Automatically stays current
- Measures readiness through real work
What Onboard does
GitHub
code, commits, pull requests
Slack
decisions, incidents, context
Linear
issues, projects, history
Personalized onboarding plan
Sequenced for one engineer's role, team, and target services
First meaningful pull request
Real, reviewed, and accepted by the team
The knowledge a new engineer needs already exists. It is just scattered across code, tickets, and other people's memory.
I have access to everything, but I still don't understand how the system works or where to begin.
New engineer
We spend weeks answering questions before a new hire can independently contribute.
Engineering manager
I repeat the same architecture explanation every time someone joins.
Senior engineer
What an engineer actually gets
Four surfaces, all built from your sources, all citing them.
Interactive architecture walkthrough
A service map built from your actual repositories. Click a service to see its files, click an arrow to see how data moves, hover a claim to see the commit or Slack thread it came from.
An investigation built from a real incident
Not a quiz. The engineer gets the logs, the code, and the thread, and has to find the root cause. Hints go from broad to specific only when they ask.
A first contribution with a stated reason
Onboard recommends one issue and explains why: it touches files the engineer already read, it has tests, and it carries low production risk.
Readiness a manager can actually see
Progress, blockers, stale knowledge, and single-owner subsystems, measured against shipping rather than against course completion.
Stop finding out weeks later
Today a manager grants access and learns whether a new hire understands the system by counting how many times they ask. Onboard makes readiness continuously visible: who is stuck and on what, which knowledge has gone stale, which subsystem has exactly one expert, and when someone is genuinely ready to ship.
See the manager viewHero metric
11 daysmedian time to first meaningful PR
Measured against merged, team-accepted work, not modules completed.
A meaningful PR affects production, is accepted by the team, is more than a typo fix, and is appropriate to the role.
Why the existing options do not close the loop
Internal wikis
Manual, stale, and identical for everyone. Nothing verifies understanding.
Enterprise search
Answers a question you already knew to ask. It does not sequence onboarding or lead anywhere.
Generic LMS
Hand-authored courses disconnected from the engineering work actually happening.
AI code assistants
Help you write code once you understand the system. They do not reconstruct why it looks like this.
Onboard is the only one that carries company memory, personalized teaching, real evaluation, and contribution guidance in a single loop, and it measures itself on whether the engineer shipped.
Pricing
Start with a $5 Engineering Onboarding Audit: connect one repository and get a codebase onboarding map, five recommended modules, a knowledge-risk list, and a starter-issue recommendation.
Starter
$49 per engineer onboarded
- One personalized path
- GitHub integration
- Architecture walkthrough
- One investigation challenge
Team
Most teams$299 per month
- Up to 10 active learners
- GitHub, Slack, and Linear
- Manager analytics
- Continuous sync
Growth
$999 per month
- Unlimited learners
- Multiple teams
- Advanced permissions and SSO
- Custom retention, priority support