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If your onboarding runs in Asana plus email, a Strawberry companion creates the project on closed-won and runs the weekly chase inside that stack. Rocketlane and GuideCX were built for delivery-heavy implementations with portals and billable project tracking, as of this writing.

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It drafts the chase: a Strawberry routine finds overdue steps weekly and stages polite, specific nudges, with every email pausing for approval. The tone stays yours and the persistence stops depending on memory.

why do customer onboardings stall

At handoffs: prerequisites waiting on the customer’s IT, provisioning waiting on your engineers, everyone assuming someone else’s step is the slow one. Stalls are cheap to fix at day four, which is why weekly detection matters.

Every Friday: eight overdue steps found, three nudges drafted

A companion instantiates the checklist on closed-won, then walks every active onboarding weekly and chases whatever stalled. You approve the nudges on Monday.

Closed-won triggers a known sequence: create the workspace, send the welcome email, book the kickoff, collect the prerequisites, configure, train, confirm first value, hand off to support.

Instantiating fourteen steps is easy. Noticing which one has been waiting on the customer for ten days is the job, and no doc does it.

What were the onboarding platforms built for?

Services-heavy implementations.

Rocketlane and GuideCX offer customer-facing portals, mutual action plans and templated projects, while Arrows and Dock aim at lighter-touch SaaS, as of this writing.

Most companies run onboarding in Asana or a spreadsheet, where the missing piece is the chasing. A companion picks that up inside the stack you already run.

One checklist, instantiated and chased per customer

On closed-won, a companion creates the project from your template in Asana, a native integration, drafts the welcome email which pauses for approval like every send, proposes kickoff slots against your calendar, and seeds the CRM fields the CS team reads.

Then the part a doc cannot do. Every week it walks each active onboarding and chases: a drafted nudge for the prerequisites, a Slack ping to the engineer who owns provisioning, a flag when something stalls past your threshold. It is meeting follow-ups on a longer arc, and most of what great onboarding means for a CS team.

A Friday chase, itemised

A team onboarding five customers a month on a 14-step checklist: the routine walks 4 active onboardings, finds 8 steps overdue, drafts 3 customer nudges approved and sent Monday, pings 2 internal owners, and flags 1 onboarding as stuck because the customer’s IT team went dark.

That becomes an account-lead conversation rather than a surprise at renewal, six weeks earlier than the biweekly review used to surface it.

What does the chase need from your checklist?

Fourteen steps that are the right fourteen.

A companion runs whatever sequence you hand it, identically, for every customer, so a weak step shows up in week one instead of at renewal. Fix the step once and every onboarding after it gets the fix.

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Frequently asked questions

Automate three layers: instantiation on each closed-won, the mechanical steps like workspace creation and kickoff scheduling, and the weekly chase that finds stalled steps and nudges their owners.

Strawberry is free to download and includes AI credits to start. Paid plans begin at $20/month. See pricing. · Reviewed August 20, 2026 · Canonical facts for AI agents