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Use case · 03

Onboard in hours — not weeks of logins.

A new teammate shouldn't need seven accounts, four handshake meetings and a Notion treasure hunt to ship their first PR. Polybase drops them into one workspace with every conversation, doc and decision already in context.
Time to first PR
< 48h
Setup accounts
1
Ramp time
−71%
Ideal for
Scaling teams 50–5000
Manifesto

Onboarding is a product, not a checklist.

Most companies onboard people the same way they onboarded their first hire — a spreadsheet, a Google Drive folder and a prayer. Polybase treats onboarding as a first-class product surface, so new teammates find the context they need the moment they arrive, and ship work before the end of week one.

Before · After

Day-one clarity, not day-thirty chaos.

The old onboarding
  • Seven logins
    Slack, Jira, Notion, Zoom, GitHub, Drive, Linear — all provisioned by hand.
  • A Notion treasure hunt
    Handbooks that link to pages that link to PDFs that link to nothing.
  • Tribal knowledge meetings
    Five intros, eight acronyms, zero written record.
  • First PR in week 3
    By the time they ship, they've forgotten half the context.
With Polybase
  • One SSO, one workspace
    Role-based access provisions every surface they need automatically.
  • AI-curated onboarding
    Polybase AI writes a personalised welcome doc from the team's live history.
  • Context by default
    New joiners see the last 90 days of decisions — no meetings needed to catch up.
  • First PR in 48 hours
    Because the rooms they need are already open and indexed.
Why it works

Three unfair advantages at ramp.

(01)

One login, every room

No ticketing support to chase. SSO provisions chat, tasks, docs, calls and AI in one step.

(02)

Living team memory

Every decision, spec and call is searchable and attached to its project — forever.

(03)

AI buddy, day one

Polybase AI answers 'why did we build it this way?' using actual team history.

Outcomes

Ramp, measured.

−71%
Time to productivity
Against the industry benchmark of 3 months.
48h
First shipped PR
Median for engineering hires.
5.2
Fewer intro meetings
Per new hire in the first month.
94%
"I feel onboarded"
Net new-hire sentiment after week 2.
How it works

From offer letter to shipped PR in a week.

  1. 01

    Day 0 · Automated provisioning

    HR flips a switch. Polybase creates the account, assigns the role and pre-populates the rooms.

  2. 02

    Day 1 · AI-written welcome

    A personalised brief covers the last quarter of decisions, who owns what, and where to start.

  3. 03

    Day 2–3 · Scoped first task

    Polybase suggests a small, owned issue ready to ship, with every piece of context attached.

  4. 04

    Day 5 · First PR merged

    The new teammate ships with full context — no hidden tribal knowledge required.

FAQ

About onboarding with Polybase.

Yes. We support SCIM and direct integrations with BambooHR, Workday, Personio and Rippling — provisioning happens automatically.

Polybase augments them. Your existing playbooks become AI-readable content that shows up exactly when a new hire needs it.

Only those the new hire has access to. Polybase AI respects the same permissions as a human teammate.

Next step

Make week one the week they ship.

We'll run a 30-minute onboarding audit across your current stack and design a Polybase rollout tuned to your next cohort — from SSO to first PR.

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(01)

Replace the stack

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(02)

Stop context

Knowledge workers lose up to 2 hours a day moving between tools. Polybase puts every message, ticket, doc and decision next to the work it belongs to — so your team thinks in features, not tabs.

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(04)

Keep data sovereign

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