Engineering onboarding is a documentation symptom
If your engineering onboarding is slow, the root cause is almost always that the documentation is outdated, scattered, or both. The README has not been touched since the last reorg of the codebase. The on-call runbook references a Pagerduty rotation that is now in Opsgenie. The deploy process is a tribal memory two senior engineers carry. Kompyl does not fix the documentation problem — but the regenerate-from-source model creates a forcing function: if the kit is wrong, the doc is wrong, and the doc is what the rest of the team uses too.
The first generation of an engineering kit usually surfaces three or four documentation gaps the team did not know they had. Customers in this category report that fixing those gaps improves their senior engineers' lives more than the onboarding ROI itself.
What engineering customers feed Kompyl
- Repo README + CONTRIBUTING.md — local setup, branch model, code review norms
- System architecture doc — diagrams, service boundaries, data flow
- RFC / ADR archive — the "why" behind major design decisions
- On-call runbook — alert response, escalation, common incidents
- Security baseline — secrets handling, dependency review, deploy review
Time-to-first-PR
The metric most engineering managers care about is time-to-first-PR — the days between a new hire's start date and their first merged change, however small. Customers using Kompyl-generated onboarding report 5–10 days of improvement on this metric. The kit does not write the first PR for the engineer; it removes the friction (where is the repo, who reviews, how do I deploy) so the engineer hits "ready to commit" earlier.
Async-friendly for distributed teams
Most modern engineering teams are at least partly distributed. Slide decks plus quizzes plus flashcards work asynchronously in a way that "shadow a senior for a week" does not. The new engineer can complete the deck on their own time, take the quiz, and bring specific questions to the senior — rather than blocking the senior for a week of synchronous shadowing.
Related: remote employee onboarding, employee onboarding training generator.