Founder-Led Onboarding
You're doing every onboarding call yourself.
It works. It converts. And it takes 100% of your time.
The Problem
The best onboarding in your company dies with your calendar.
Users who get a call with you convert at 2-4x the rate of users who get a help doc. That's not a guess. You've seen it in your own numbers.
The problem is math. At 20 new signups a day, you'd need 10+ hours of calls per week just for first-touch onboarding. At 50 signups, it's a full-time job. At 100, it's two full-time jobs. And you still have a product to build, investors to update, and a team to run.
So you ration. Enterprise accounts get the call. Everyone else gets a welcome email and a Loom. You already know which group retains.
Old way
- User signs up. Receives automated email with a Calendly link.
- User books a slot (if they book at all). Average no-show rate: 20-30%.
- Founder joins a Zoom call. Shares screen or asks the user to share theirs.
- 20 to 40 minutes of walkthrough. Founder adapts to the user's questions in real time.
- User converts at a high rate because the experience was personal and thorough.
- Founder loses another hour. Pipeline of other users waits.
This works until it doesn't. At 10 signups a day, you're spending your entire week on calls. At 50, it's physically impossible.
Hyper way
- User signs up. Hyper is available immediately. No scheduling. No waiting.
- User clicks help or triggers an automated check-in. Hyper connects in seconds.
- Hyper sees the user's screen. It talks via real-time voice while navigating menus, clicking buttons, and filling forms on the user's behalf.
- The user asks a question mid-walkthrough. Hyper pauses, answers, then picks up where it left off.
- Session takes 2 to 10 minutes. The user reaches their aha moment.
- Hyper handles the next call immediately. No gap. No queue.
Your product knowledge, delivered by an AI that never needs a break and never reads from a script. Every user gets the founder-quality onboarding. You get your calendar back.
How It Works
Step 01
Point Hyper at your knowledge.
Hand over your help center URL, your recorded walkthroughs, or a test account. Hyper reads your docs, watches your videos, or explores your product directly by clicking through every flow itself. If you have all three, it uses all three. If you have nothing but a login, that's enough.
Hyper.boot({
user_id: user.id,
email: user.email,
first_name: user.firstName,
company: { name: user.companyName },
});Step 02
A new user signs up.
They land on your dashboard for the first time. They click a help button. Or they hesitate on a page for too long. Or your trial flow triggers Hyper automatically after signup.
Step 03
Hyper runs the call you would have run.
The AI connects via voice. It says: "Hey, I'm going to walk you through setting up your first project. I'll control your screen and show you each step. You can interrupt me any time."
Then it does what you do: navigates to the right screen, clicks the right buttons, fills in example data, explains what each field means and why it matters. The user watches their own product come alive.
Example
A therapist using clinical SaaS for the first time.
The user signs up on a Wednesday evening. You're offline. Hyper picks up the call.
"Let me show you how to run your first session. I'm going to click on 'Clients' here, add a test client, and then we'll set up a session together."
The AI opens the client list, creates a test entry, navigates to the session screen, activates the recording tools, and walks the therapist through each step out loud. The therapist asks: "What does this button do?" Hyper pauses, explains, then continues. Four minutes later, the therapist has completed their first mock session and understands the core workflow.
That therapist would have churned by Thursday morning without this call.
Results
What changes when every user gets the founder call
Activation rate is the primary metric. Users who complete a guided first session activate at significantly higher rates than users who self-serve through docs or product tours.
Product tours complete at 20 to 30%. A live guided session runs to completion because the AI adapts to the user's pace and questions.
Deploy Hyper to a segment of new users. Keep the rest on your current onboarding. Compare activation, trial-to-paid conversion, and 30-day retention head to head.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What teams ask before rolling out Hyper.
Use Cases
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