The method of hiring, onboarding, and managing new staff will be time-consuming and error-prone. From sending out contracts to signing them, to granting entry to firms’ communication instruments like Slack and engineering instruments like Github, the method may take between one to 2 weeks. If a selected human sources (HR) startup, Onboardly, has its approach, that course of would take 10 minutes, tops.
Based in 2021 by Joshua Oguntade, Onboardly is an worker onboarding and administration software program for firms, with an apparent bias for fast-growing startups. Based on Oguntade, the corporate’s thesis is that if startups should develop quick, all its processes should be agile, particularly in hiring and ensuring new hires settle in effectively. Oguntade, who’s a Nigerian based mostly in Ghana, ideated the thesis to take away onboarding sluggishness for African firms when he bought a job at GitHub.
“It took solely three days for me to be onboarded,” Oguntade, talking from his residence in Accra, instructed TechCabal over a name. “The whole lot was automated in order that inside my first week, I used to be already acquainted with each device I wanted to work and was virtually prepared to start out pushing manufacturing code.”
Oguntade is a software program engineer. From 2016–2018, he was at MEST Africa in Ghana as a resident entrepreneur. He joined GitHub as a contract software program engineer and later, Andela, as a senior software program engineer, the identical yr he left MEST. In 2020, nonetheless, he joined Flutterwave as a product supervisor for compliance, a job he sat on for over a yr, earlier than resigning to start out his personal firm. Having labored with a number of firms in several capacities, Oguntade stated he’s seen how boorish human relationship administration will be.
“At Onboardly, we allow firms to handle their worker swimming pools from level A to Z. There’s too many stops, and we’re consolidating all of them in a single platform,” he stated.
As we speak, the corporate permits firms to carry out all their onboarding duties: sending contracts, creating work emails, and giving entry to working instruments. On the corporate web site, a fast video demo reveals how new staff will be given entry to all of the issues they should get their work carried out. Entry may also be revoked from staff when they’re exiting the corporate.
Onboardly is built-in with instruments like Google Workspace, Microsoft, Slack, Jira, Heroku, Asana, GitLab, GitHub, and Basecamp. What this implies is that, if an organization makes use of these instruments, accounts will be created for brand spanking new hires, handle, and withdraw worker entry to those accounts through Onboardly.
The platform additionally offers companies with a single hub to take headcounts and entry their worker listing. Oguntade stated their platform cleansed, streamlined, and organized worker knowledge in such a approach that firms can simply delegate duties to a selected worker or vice versa. One employer (let’s say a supervisor) also can invite teammates whom they’d like to assist handle their firm’s account.
The CEO stated that the corporate is working in direction of partnering with extra firms, each native and worldwide, to make sure that “we will help companies create most happiness for his or her staff”. For example, Onboardly has partnered with WiiCreate, a Nigerian startup that creates branded merchandise for startups, to allow firms to decide on to ship swags to their staff after or throughout onboarding, proper there from the Onboardly dashboard.
Based on the CEO, Onboardly makes cash from charging a versatile month-to-month subscription of $50 for firms with simply 20 staff. For these with greater than 20 staff, the corporate fees $4 on each worker per 30 days. Oguntade stated over 170 firms are at the moment utilizing Onboardly the world over, and “a bulk of them are in Nigeria and Ghana, and are Y Combinator firms together with Mono, Curacel, Float and many others”.
Onboardly maintains a lean crew of 5, the place Oguntade doubles as CEO and CTO of the corporate. The startup has raised a pre-seed spherical to construct out extra options and prolong its choices. Oguntade stated whereas the corporate is at all times looking out for nice buyers, their runway can be on the nice aspect for a while.
“We began from making onboarding staff fast and environment friendly, however the purpose is to assist startups create a cheerful tradition for his or her staff,” he concluded.