# UserOnboarding.ai

> How AI products onboard new users, and how products use AI to onboard people.

38 companies, 92 screens, 101 articles, 14 questions. Collected 2026-11-06.

- [Questions](https://useronboarding.ai/questions.md)

## Companies

### Onboarding for AI products

- [Cursor (Anysphere)](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/cursor.md): Cursor has moved beyond a one-time install wizard to persistent setup checklists: a "Your setup" card on the web dashboard (connect GitHub/GitLab, Slack, plugins, cloud environment) and a "Getting…
- [Lovable](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/lovable.md): Sign-up auto-provisions a free personal workspace, then a short dark-mode profiling step (name, then role) runs before the user lands on a home screen that is one large prompt box ("Ready to build,…
- [Manus](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/manus.md): An agent product that segments users by outcome-framed role cards, shows Pro pricing with a 7-day trial before the workspace loads, and then lands on a task composer with quick-action chips and a…
- [Midjourney](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/midjourney.md): A case study in onboarding through someone else's platform: through 2023 new users signed in on midjourney.com, authorized a Discord bot, joined the Discord server, passed captchas and Discord's own…
- [Superhuman](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/superhuman.md): A paid-first email client, now marketed around AI, that turned its famous 30-minute 1:1 onboarding calls into a self-serve flow. A practice inbox coaches keyboard shortcuts one keypress at a time, a…
- [Granola](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/granola.md): Sign in with a work Google or Microsoft account, watch a founder video that demos a live meeting, and land on a 'Get started with Granola' note built from that demo. Calendar sync means upcoming…
- [Notion AI](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/notion-ai.md): No separate AI onboarding. AI opens inside the page the user is editing, with starter prompts grouped by job (write, edit, summarize). Picking one seeds a focused follow-up, and the output lands in…
- [Windsurf (now Devin Desktop, Cognition)](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/windsurf.md): A desktop IDE whose first run is a short native wizard: pick a color theme, choose keybindings, optionally import settings from VS Code or Cursor, install a terminal command, then sign in. After…
- [Dia (The Browser Company)](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/dia.md): An AI browser whose first-run 'Getting Started' page teaches five things: trust, the ⌘E chat shortcut, learning your patterns, history as context, and payoff by the end of the week. Setup offers…
- [Otter.ai](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/otter.md): A welcome survey (work type, role, goals), a calendar step that suggests meetings for the AI notetaker to join automatically, workspace and teammate invites, and then in-product tooltips around a…
- [Replit](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/replit.md): Replit's home screen is a single Agent prompt box greeting the user by name, with suggested prompts and an artifact chip (e.g. Website). Replit's own first-app guide teaches users to write an…
- [v0 (Vercel)](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/v0.md): v0's landing page is the product: a "What do you want to create?" prompt box with one-click example chips and a template gallery. Per a third-party teardown, a logged-out visitor can submit a prompt…
- [Claude Code (Anthropic)](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/claude-code.md): A terminal agent whose onboarding runs as a keyboard-only wizard the first time you type `claude`: an ASCII-art welcome, a text-style (theme) picker, a login-method choice that hands off to the…
- [Gamma](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/gamma.md): Gamma's creation flow starts with a three-way choice — Paste in text, Generate, or Import file or URL — then a Generate screen where users pick a format, card count and language before typing a…
- [GitHub Copilot (in VS Code)](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/github-copilot.md): Copilot onboards inside an editor the developer already uses: VS Code ships with a Copilot icon in the status bar, and signing in with GitHub from there silently enrolls anyone without a…
- [NotebookLM (Google)](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/notebooklm.md): NotebookLM starts with the user's own sources, not a blank chat. The Add source button is the largest control in the left panel. Each upload gets an auto-generated Source Guide (summary plus key…
- [Devin (Cognition)](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/devin.md): Devin's onboarding puts repository setup before the first task. Users index a repo and configure Devin's environment, then start from a 'What do you want to get done?' box with a repo selector. The…
- [Figma (First Draft / Figma Make)](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/figma.md): Figma's AI features start from a prompt on the canvas instead of an empty frame. First Draft asks the user to pick one of four component libraries (from lo-fi wireframe to hi-fi site) and then…
- [Meta AI (standalone app)](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/meta-ai.md): The standalone Meta AI app, launched in April 2025, is built around voice. Its home screen replaces an empty chat with an animated orb and three spoken starter options under 'Where should we…
- [Magic Patterns](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/magic-patterns.md): An AI prototyping tool that teaches features during the first generation instead of before it: right after sign-up, a feature-introduction modal appears over the workspace while the first output is…

### Onboarding that uses AI

- [Clay](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/clay.md): Clay skips the empty dashboard. Signup answers route new users straight into a live workbook where its Sculptor AI assistant has already suggested searches based on the user's company website, then…
- [Userflow](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/userflow.md): Userflow's Smartflow builds an onboarding flow from a written purpose plus one recorded click-through of your app. The AI picks tooltips or modals and writes the copy for each step, and its Adoption…
- [Webflow (AI site builder)](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/webflow-ai-site-builder.md): Webflow's AI site builder replaces the blank canvas with a prompt. You describe the site and its audience, then shape a generated multi-page draft in three steps (structure, theme, polish) before…
- [Whatfix](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/whatfix.md): Whatfix, a digital adoption platform for employee software rollouts, uses AI agents on both sides. Authors prompt pop-ups, walkthroughs and display rules into existing apps, and new employees type a…
- [Duolingo](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/duolingo.md): Duolingo's onboarding asks for a daily goal, then lets learners who already know some of the language take an adaptive placement test. The test uses real exercises chosen one at a time by a model to…
- [Frigade](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/frigade.md): Frigade embeds an AI assistant that learns a product by using it, then onboards end users by answering in context, highlighting the next UI element step by step, or doing the setup task for them.
- [HubSpot (Breeze)](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/hubspot-breeze.md): HubSpot seeds its AI context from your website. You enter a URL, Breeze crawls the site and fills a Brand Identity profile (industry, competitors, content themes, tech stack) and optionally a brand…
- [Noom](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/noom.md): Noom's web onboarding is a quiz of up to 113 screens that builds a personalized weight-loss plan. It keeps redrawing a predicted goal date as the user answers and shows 'analyzing' loaders that…
- [Chameleon](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/chameleon.md): Chameleon's Copilot turns a goal like 'launch our new feature' into a researched brief and then a multi-experience onboarding campaign. It uses Chameleon's benchmark data to push back on tours that…
- [Pendo](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/pendo.md): Pendo's guide editor now opens with 'Start with a prompt': a product team describes the onboarding tour and who it's for, and the Guides Agent picks a layout and drafts the steps and copy for review…
- [Appcues](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/appcues.md): Appcues AI lets teams build onboarding flows by chatting: describe the tour, upload a mockup or paste a page URL, and the Experience Builder agent drafts the flow in the builder for you to refine by…
- [Canva](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/canva.md): Canva asks one use-case question at signup and then drops new users on a home screen built around a Canva AI prompt ('What will you design today?'). The first design can be generated from a sentence…
- [Framer](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/framer.md): Framer's first-site experience can start from a prompt. Wireframer (May 2025) generates a responsive, structure-only layout, and the newer Agent panel builds and edits editable pages, copy and…
- [Shopify (AI Store Builder)](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/shopify-ai-store-builder.md): New merchants describe their business in a few words and Shopify generates several complete store designs, with layout, images and copy, to pick from before touching the theme editor.
- [Tandem](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/tandem.md): Tandem started as an embedded AI copilot for in-app onboarding and now sells an AI workspace for B2B implementation teams. Its agents turn customer calls into plan updates that a human approves, and…
- [Userpilot](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/userpilot.md): Userpilot's agent, Lia, sits in the main nav and builds onboarding flows from a goal or from an analytics finding. Ask it to analyze activation, and it recommends a fix and offers a one-click…
- [Intercom (Fin)](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/intercom-fin.md): Intercom is positioning its Fin AI agent as a 'Customer Agent' with a Success role that onboards customers after purchase: it walks them through setup step by step and suggests features they have…
- [Notion (Notion Agent)](https://useronboarding.ai/companies/notion.md): Notion pitches its Agent as the way to onboard a new teammate. One prompt builds a personalized onboarding page from workspace context: a welcome, week-one priorities, a database of people to meet,…
