# UserOnboarding.ai

> How AI products onboard new users, and how products use AI to onboard people. A research gallery of 38 companies' onboarding flows, with 92 screenshots, notes on each flow, 101 linked articles (73 written by the product teams themselves), and 14 cross-cutting questions and answers.

Every screenshot links to the public page it came from. Content was collected from the public web on 2026-11-06.

## Start here

- [Questions and answers](https://useronboarding.ai/questions.md): what the 38 flows have in common and where they split (blank prompt box, signup timing, pricing, tours, activation, onboarding vendors)
- [All companies](https://useronboarding.ai/index.md): one line per company, grouped by category
- [Full dataset as JSON](https://useronboarding.ai/data.json): every company, note, image and article, machine-readable
- [Everything in one file](https://useronboarding.ai/llms-full.txt): all pages as Markdown

## 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,…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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,…
- [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…
- [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,…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…

## 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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…
- [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…