Use case
Startups hiring in bursts
Funding closes, headcount doubles in a quarter, and onboarding becomes whatever the last manager improvised on a Monday. Here's how teams use Runway to keep every hire on the same plan.
The problem
Hiring bursts break onboarding because the plan lives in one founder's head. The first two hires get a great week one; hires three through eight get a Slack message and a shrug.
How it's set up in Runway
- One template per function — Engineer, sales, ops — build it once with the manager who owns the role.
- Join codes, not kickoff calls — Each hire gets a code, signs up, and lands on their own plan.
- Milestones with numbers — 30-60-90 checkpoints and ramp-up goals so 'how are they doing' has an answer.
- Reading that stays current — Update the template and every future hire in that role inherits it.
What changes after a month
Managers stop rebuilding week one from scratch, and you can see at a glance which hires are behind on reading or milestones instead of finding out at their first review.
Run this plan in Runway
Save it as a role template once, then every future hire in that role starts with the same plan and their own progress view.
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