Create an onboarding guide

Create role-specific onboarding guides for new hires using existing context.

Falconer generates personalized onboarding guides pulling context from your actual codebase, tasks, and internal docs.

Prerequisites

Connect your sources for the best results:

• Connect GitHub to pull context directly from your codebase
• Connect Linear to include real tasks in the onboarding guide
• Upload or reference key documents (job description, plan, job ladder) as additional context

Draft the guide

Here’s a starter prompt to create a guide specific to your new hire:

Create an onboarding guide for our new fullstack engineer. Reference the job description from @[job description in your Falconer org]. Include a day-by-day plan for their first two weeks:
- set up their developer environment
- development lifecycle and how to deploy to production
- link to relevant Linear tasks for their onboarding phase
- add diagrams of key services, systems, and flows

Alternatively, you can collaborate with Falconer with a more guided approach. Falconer will ask you questions before writing the guide:

Help me write an onboarding guide for our new engineer.

Iterate on the guide

Because Falconer has access to your connected sources, the onboarding guide includes context specific to your organization.

Once the doc is drafted, you can use the agent in the right pane to ensure it has key information for your new hire, such as:

• Architecture diagrams — include visual overviews of your codebase
• Code samples — ask Falconer to include helpful code snippets or commands for setup or common tasks
• Tasks — ask Falconer to include real Linear issues the new hire can pick up during onboarding
• Sequencing — ensure the length of the onboarding and order of operations are correct
• Key documents — reference relevant internal docs, runbooks, and style guides
• Key context — include which Slack channels to join, which repos to clone, and who to talk to