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Customer onboarding that doesn't lose the handover
Onboarding crosses sales, legal, finance and delivery. Each team knows its part. Ovenbird knows the whole sequence and whose turn it is.
Reads the documents you already have. Writes to no customer. One afternoon to set up.
Sounds familiar?
- The handover drops thingsWhat was sold is not what delivery starts with.
- Onboarded means a CRM stageNot the steps the process says must be true.
- New CSMs learn by askingEvery onboarding question goes to the same person.
Where it shows up
- TechnologySaaS implementation: data import, SSO, admin training, go-live check, the 30-day review.
- Financial servicesAccount opening and KYC: documents required per customer type, verification steps, the welcome pack the regulator expects.
- Professional servicesClient intake: conflict check, engagement letter, scope sign-off, the handover from the partner who sold to the team who delivers.
- HospitalityCorporate accounts and event clients: rate agreement, billing setup, the contact sheet operations needs before the first stay.
- Healthcare administrationNew patient registration and referral intake: consent, insurance verification, the first-appointment checklist.
What changes
- Nothing dropped at the handoverThe step after signature, after kickoff, after go-live: named owner, due date, evidence of completion.
- Contract type decides the branchStandard, enterprise, regulated: the document's own branches applied to this account, with the deciding fact asked first.
- Status from evidenceAn account is "onboarded" when the process says so, not when the CRM stage was moved.
- New CSMs productive in a weekTrained on the onboarding process with scenarios from your document, refreshed before they forget.
- The playbook stays currentEvery correction from the field becomes a proposed edit to the onboarding document, versioned.
How it works
- 1
Point it at the documents you have
Confluence, Google Docs, Notion or a web page. No rewriting; Ovenbird reads the live version and shows which one it followed.
- 2
People ask on the work in front of them
In Slack, on the web or from the record: the one next step, the fact it depends on asked first, the paragraph quoted.
- 3
Corrections and training come from the same page
Every "this is wrong" becomes a proposed edit. Every procedure becomes a short course with refreshers and records.
Built for
- Head of Customer SuccessTime to value down, handover defects visible.
- Sales operationsSignature to kickoff on the clock, every account.
- Implementation leadsBranches by contract type applied without asking.
What a pilot measures
- Time to valueDays from signature to the first success criterion met.
- Handover defectsItems that reached delivery with a missing contract, contact or scope sign-off.
- Steps completed in orderShare of onboardings with every required step evidenced before go-live.
Agreed before the pilot. Reported after 90 days, before and after.
Questions buyers ask
Does Ovenbird email the customer?
No. It never writes to customers. For a contact step it says what the process requires that contact to achieve and include; the message is yours.
Can one process cover different customer sizes?
Yes, if the document does. Ovenbird follows the branches written in it (for example by contract type) and asks for the fact it needs to pick one.
See it on one of your own documents
Paste a link to a procedure. The next step and the course exist the same minute.