A 30-day plan that gets new hires shipping — without burning out the team that's ramping them.
A 30-day onboarding playbook that gets new hires to first shipped outcome — and protects the team's focus while they ramp.
This page covers onboarding playbook: first 30 days in practice: what to do first, how to turn it into real blocks in your calendar, and how to keep the plan alive when the day changes. Everything below is how we use Hioii ourselves — capture in Brain Dump, choose three outcomes, and box them into 30-minute slots with buffers.
New hires need shared context before tasks. Pair with a buddy, schedule 5 short 1:1s with stakeholders, write a "first impressions" doc by day 7.
Shadow the team's daily rituals (standup, planning, review). Ship one small outcome by day 14 — a doc, a bug fix, a customer reply. Building confidence > building velocity.
New hire owns one outcome end-to-end with light supervision. Block 4 hours of protected focus daily in their calendar — no meetings except 1:1.
Honest review of what shipped, what blocked, what surprised. Most onboarding gaps are systemic — the new hire just sees them first. Use the data.
Start in Brain Dump and empty your head — tasks, ideas, worries — without sorting them. Then mark the three that define a successful day and drag them onto the Time Box grid, where each block is 30 minutes and every block carries a buffer. When something breaks (and it will), Auto-Organize re-plans the rest of the day instead of leaving you with a stale schedule about onboarding playbook: first 30 days.
Teams do the same thing in Squad: a shared backlog, delegation with clear owners, and availability that shows busy or blocked slots without exposing the private content of anyone's calendar. Managers see delivery speed and a traffic-light view of what is on track — measurement without surveillance.
Hioii is free to start on the Basic plan, which includes monthly AI credits. Paid plans add more credits, longer history retention, Take Off data export and team features such as seats, shared projects and agent access through MCP.
Peer for context, senior for unblocking. Two buddies, two roles. Single-buddy systems overload the buddy.
~5 hours/week per existing team member for the first 30 days. Budget it explicitly in time boxing.
Yes — Team Growth plan includes a 30-day onboarding template with pre-time-boxed outcomes for the new hire.