Use Case — Onboarding for Professional Services
Professional Services Onboarding: Start New Hires Without Laptop Delays
Paperwork completes before day one, equipment and access fire the moment a start date is confirmed, and 30/60/90 check-ins schedule themselves — the system that took a 45-person firm from 3-week onboarding to 3 days and lifted 90-day retention 25%.
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Paperwork moves over email with nothing tracking it
The moment an offer is accepted, the new hire gets a welcome email with a secure document portal link. Employment agreement, tax forms, direct deposit, benefits choices, and background check ID all collect in one session with e-signature. Outstanding items trigger automatic nudges at day 3 and day 5 instead of HR chasing each one individually.
- Paperwork completion went from 1-3 weeks of chasing to 2-3 days
- Documents stop arriving incomplete, unsigned, or not at all
- A pre-boarding message lands 3 days before start with logistics and the week-one schedule
New hires spend week one waiting on a laptop and email access
Equipment provisioning used to depend on HR manually notifying IT, then following up to confirm the laptop had been ordered and licenses allocated — every handoff a delay risk. Now laptop, access card, and software licenses fire to IT on start-date confirmation with role and start date attached, and system access gets tracked against a completion checklist.
- Time to full system access fell from 5-7 business days to day 1-2
- Unresolved access triggers an automatic IT escalation on day 2
- Day 1 orientation, manager meetings, and team intros auto-schedule
Structured check-ins only happen when HR has a quiet week
Manual scheduling was the breaking point: the firm had a checklist in a shared drive, and every hire's experience depended on how busy HR was that month. Day 30, 60, and 90 conversations now prompt automatically with a structured question guide, so HR walks in prepared. The conversations still happen in person — automation only makes sure they happen.
- Any hire flagged at-risk at 30 days carries the flag into the 60-day conversation
- 90-day retention improved 25% against baseline
- Three early-stage departures per 18 months became one
How This Automation Works
Here's the exact workflow we build, from trigger to result.
Start Date Confirmed
The HRIS record triggers the whole onboarding sequence
Portal Collects Docs
Agreement, tax forms, deposit, benefits — one session
IT Provisions Access
Laptop, licenses, and accounts fire by role and start date
Check-Ins Fire
Day 3 manager prompt, day 5 survey, then 30/60/90
Proof
Works with your stack
We build on the tools you already run. No rip-and-replace.
- BambooHR
- Rippling
- Okta
- JumpCloud
- DocuSign
- PandaDoc
- Zapier
- Make
- n8n
- Slack
- CRM
- Project management tools
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Paperwork, equipment, and system access should finish within one to three days. Cultural and role-specific onboarding runs 30 to 90 days. SHRM found 20% of turnover happens in the first 45 days, and slow admin onboarding is a leading cause. Automation compresses the admin layer so humans handle relationships.
Document collection, equipment provisioning requests, system access setup for email, Slack, CRM and project tools, compliance training scheduling, and 30/60/90 check-in reminders. Those consume 6 to 10 hours of HR time per hire when done manually. The firm we studied cut that to 1 to 2 hours of review.
The opposite, when it's designed well. Automation absorbs forms, access, and equipment while manager intros, team lunches, and mentor pairing stay human. New hires at the case study firm felt more welcomed, not less, because they weren't spending week one chasing IT for a laptop.
The first two weeks set lasting impressions about organizational competence. Wynhurst Group research shows structured onboarding makes employees 58% more likely to stay three years. The case study firm saw 25% better 90-day retention after automating. Nothing about the roles changed — only the start did.
Replacing a professional hire who leaves within 90 days runs $15,000 to $25,000 including recruitment, training, and lost productivity. Three early-stage departures in 18 months cost the case study firm $45,000 to $75,000 before team disruption and morale. SHRM puts average cost-per-hire at $4,683.
Typically four to six weeks. Week one maps the current process, weeks two and three build document collection and provisioning workflows, week four configures the 30/60/90 check-ins, and weeks five and six test with two new hires. The case study firm went live six weeks after scoping.
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