What is the problem you are solving, and why does it matter?

Poor technical onboarding is a significant drain on productivity for teams, contributing to high turnover rates among developers, which is one of the highest among all occupations. After conducting deep discovery sessions with over 320+ tech teams, we have identified crucial pain points that need to be addressed:
These challenges are particularly pronounced at companies with larger dev teams and more new hires to onboard or offboard simultaneously. As a result, engineering managers are calling for a tool that can accelerate the path to productivity.

How will Silo Team solve this problem?

Silo Team brings all the different aspects of technical onboarding, from introducing dev tools and codebase to server architecture and debugging into one environment. It also streamlines stakeholder responsibilities, so everyone knows what they need to do and when.

It serves as a smart assistant, offering insights and recommendations to stakeholders on what worked well during onboarding, what didn't, and what can be improved for the next new developer joining the company, constantly refining the journey.
Introduce technologies, tools, and workflows (Technical onboarding/offboarding).
AI-powered LMS for technical docs.
Collaborative C4 modelling / process builder.
Clean API docs generator.
Community-generated best practice templates.
Our platform couldn't have come at a better time. While there are numerous developer experience tools available, engineering managers are clamoring for a comprehensive solution that automates the onboarding and offboarding process, integrates with existing tech stacks, and provides actionable insight to stakeholders that automates the process like never before.
Engineering Managers

71% of responsible onboarding stakeholders conduct the majority of the onboarding manually. 😱

65% thinks that their organizations do a bad job onboarding new developers because of poor onboarding tools and a lack of automation.
Engineering Managers are responsible for getting developers launch ready 🚀
Developers

80% of new devs find technical onboarding unnecessarily hard and time-consuming.

30 hours of productivity are lost because of bad onboarding in the first month alone.

92% of the tools a developer uses everyday (GitHub, Lucidchart(s), Notion, Confluence, etc) do not integrate with the top 5 most popular onboarding tools.
+173 sessions with c-level stakeholders, onboarding teams, engineering managers and tech leads. +100 sessions with Junior (25%), Mid-Level (45%), and Senior Developers (30%). 🌎: 70% Europe - 30% United States.
As the recent economic downturn has pushed businesses globally to streamline their workforce, including engineering teams, there has never been a better time to retain top talent, and developers are arguably businesses’ most important assets ― so why are we giving them a poor onboarding experience?
We are on a mission to bring teams closer together
12%
of employees think their employer does a great job of onboarding new employees
51%
of employees say they’d go “above and beyond” if they were given a good induction and onboarding
22%
of companies do not have a formal onboarding process
70%
increase in productivity if a well-structured onboarding program is in place
Companies with great onboarding programs see 2.5% more revenue growth and 1.9% of the profit margin as against companies with poor onboarding processes. The former also leads to higher productivity levels and faster knowledge acquisition rates.
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