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Show HN: Sakha – An AI employee – onboarding tool for businesses

Sakha, an AI-powered onboarding tool for businesses, launched to automate new hire integration via Slack. The platform answers employee questions, guides day-by-day onboarding, reviews employment contracts, and creates company policies, aiming to reduce the 33% of new hires who leave within 90 days and save senior engineers' time.

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Sakha lives in your Slack, learns your company's knowledge, and guides every new hire from Day 1 to fully productive, automatically.

Welcome back, Anklesh

ACTIVE ONBOARDINGS

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+3 this week

QUESTIONS ANSWERED

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96% self-served

SENIOR HOURS SAVED

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this month

Active onboardings

Alex Rivera

Day 1 · 14%Maya Chen

Day 4 · 58%Sam Okafor

Day 6 · 86%Knowledge gap detected

6 people asked about parental leave this week. No doc exists.

Integrations

Connect it with apps you already know. #

Sakha plugs into the tools your team already lives in. No migration, no new portals, no extra logins.

Don't see your tool? Tell us what to build next

Why Sakha Exists

Onboarding is broken. Everyone knows it. Nobody fixes it. #

33% of new hires leave within 90 days. Only 12% say their company onboarded them well. Not because companies are careless, but because the tools make everything harder than it needs to be.

The Knowledge Black Hole

Critical knowledge lives in Sarah's head, that one Slack thread from March, and a Google Doc nobody can find. When Sarah leaves, the knowledge leaves with her.

The Manager Tax

Your senior engineers spend 15+ hours per new hire answering the same 50 questions. That's $2,000+ in lost productivity per onboarding, every single time.

The Contract Blindspot

HR ships out employment contracts, NDAs, and IP agreements with no second pair of eyes on the clauses. A bad non-compete or overbroad IP grant slips through, and 18 months later it becomes a legal headache nobody saw coming.

of new hires gone within 90 days

of senior time burned per hire

repeat questions per new hire

How It Works

From Slack install to first onboarding in under 10 minutes. #

01 · Connect

One-click Slack OAuth. Takes 30 seconds.

02 · Feed

Upload policies and docs, or bulk-import from Drive and Notion.

03 · Design

Build day-by-day onboarding journeys in the visual flow builder.

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

04 · Launch

Add a hire, assign a flow, and Sakha takes over: welcoming, guiding, answering.

Hey Alex! Welcome to Acme.

Welcome DM

Manager report scheduled for Friday

The Solution

An AI companion that owns onboarding, end to end. #

From the moment someone accepts an offer to the day they're fully productive, Sakha handles it.

01: Answer

A company brain that never forgets.

Feed Sakha your policies, processes, tools, and culture docs. It embeds everything into a searchable knowledge graph. Any employee can ask Sakha a question in Slack and get an instant, sourced answer. No more @channel asking who knows the expense policy.

  • Semantic search, not keyword matching
  • Auto-detects knowledge gaps
  • Learns from every question asked

Great question! Here's the process:

  • Fill out the IT request form
  • Get manager approval (yours is @david.chen)
  • IT typically processes within 3 business days

Knowledge gap found

6 people asked about parental leave this week. No doc exists.

02: Guide

Day-by-day onboarding on autopilot.

Design onboarding flows that unfold over days and weeks. Sakha delivers each step via Slack DM: welcome messages, team introductions, tool setup checklists, policy reads, and milestone check-ins.

  • Customizable per role and department
  • Checklists with completion tracking
  • Manager gets progress reports

03: Review

Review your employment contracts before anyone signs them.

Upload your employment contracts, NDAs, and IP agreements. Sakha's AI analyzes every clause, scores risk, and suggests improvements, then generates a professional counter-draft DOCX with all changes applied. Fix problematic clauses before they become problems.

  • Clause-by-clause risk scoring (0-100)
  • Counter-draft DOCX generation in one click
  • Flags missing clauses your contracts should include

04: Govern

Create and review company policies in minutes, not weeks.

Need a remote work policy? Data protection policy? Code of conduct? Tell Sakha what you need and it generates a complete, professionally structured policy. Or upload an existing one and get an instant review with gap analysis, compliance flags, and clarity improvements. Publish with one click and it's instantly searchable in Slack.

  • AI generates complete policies from scratch
  • Reviews existing policies for gaps and compliance
  • Publish to auto-add it to the knowledge base for all employees

See It In Action

This is what your new hire's first week looks like with Sakha. #

Hey Alex! Welcome to Acme Corp. I'm Sakha, your onboarding companion. I'll be guiding you through your first week. Let's start with a few essentials.

The VPN setup guide is here: Internal VPN Setup Guide. You'll need to download FortiClient and use the credentials IT sent to your email. If you don't have them yet, ping @mike.IT, he handles all access requests.

Source: IT Onboarding Docs

The Employee hereby assigns to the
Company all right, title, and interest
in and to any and all Inventions,
discoveries, improvements, and works of
authorship, whether or not patentable
or copyrightable, conceived or made
during the term of employment, whether
solely or jointly with others, and
whether during or outside of working
hours.

This means anything you create while employed here (code, designs, ideas) belongs to the company. This is standard, but note it says "any and all" which could include side projects. Worth asking HR about a carve-out.

Acme offers 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers and 8 weeks for secondary. Full details: Parental Leave Policy

Submit through the IT portal link. Include software name, business justification, and manager approval. Processing: 2 to 3 business days.

Source: IT Procurement PolicyHonest Comparisons

We know what you're thinking. #

You've got options. Here's how Sakha compares, honestly.

Great at checklists and compliance. But...

Onboarding + knowledge + contract review + policy. All in one.

Feature by feature.

You shouldn't need three tools and a $20K implementation budget to onboard a new hire properly.

Use Cases

Built for every team that hires. #

Startups scaling fast

Hiring 5 people a quarter with no HR team? Sakha gives every hire a consistent, structured first week without anyone building it twice.

Remote & distributed teams

No office to absorb culture from. Sakha delivers the norms, the context, and the answers in Slack, across every time zone.

Engineering teams

Stop burning senior engineers on the same 50 questions. New devs self-serve setup guides, architecture docs, and who-owns-what.

People & HR teams

One person running onboarding for the whole company? Sakha is the teammate that never forgets a step, a doc, or a check-in.

Customer support teams

High-volume hiring with deep product knowledge to transfer. Sakha turns your macros, policies, and product docs into instant answers.

Agencies & consultancies

Contractors and project hires need fast, scoped context. Sakha onboards them for the work without weeks of shadowing.

Pricing

Flat pricing. No per-seat math. #

14-day free trial. Full access. No credit card.

Starter

For small teams hiring their first 5 to 10 people.

  • 3 active onboardings / month
  • AI knowledge base in Slack
  • Onboarding flow builder
  • 2 contract reviews / month
  • Email support

Start 14-Day Free Trial

Growth

Most popularFor scaling startups hiring 5 to 25 per quarter.

  • 15 active onboardings / month
  • Everything in Starter
  • AI policy generator & reviewer
  • 10 contract reviews / month
  • Knowledge gap detection
  • Priority support

Start 14-Day Free Trial

Scale

For companies onboarding 25+ per month.

  • Unlimited onboardings
  • Everything in Growth
  • Unlimited contract reviews
  • Google Drive & Notion ingestion
  • Analytics & ROI dashboard
  • Dedicated support

Start 14-Day Free Trial

Compare: 50 people on Guru runs $900 to $1,500/mo. Sakha's Growth plan is $99/mo, flat. See full plan details

FAQ

Questions? Answered. #

Sakha is an AI onboarding companion that lives in your Slack. It learns your company's knowledge (policies, processes, tools, culture), guides every new hire through a day-by-day onboarding flow, answers their questions instantly with sourced answers, reviews employment contracts before anyone signs, and generates company policies in minutes.

About 10 minutes. Connect Sakha to Slack with one-click OAuth, upload your docs or bulk-import from Google Drive or Notion, pick or build an onboarding flow, and add your first hire. No engineering work, no implementation fees, no consultants.

Yes. Your knowledge base is isolated per workspace with row-level security, encrypted in transit and at rest, and never used to train AI models. Only your team can query your data, and admins control exactly what Sakha ingests.

Slack is the home base. For knowledge ingestion, Sakha connects to Google Drive and Notion today, with Confluence, GitHub, and more on the roadmap. New hires never need to learn a new portal: everything happens in Slack.

Flat platform pricing, not per-seat: Starter at $29/mo, Growth at $99/mo, and Scale at $299/mo. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial with full access and no credit card required.

It says so honestly and flags the question as a knowledge gap instead of inventing an answer. Gap detection is built in: when multiple people ask about something undocumented, Sakha surfaces it so you can fill the gap once and answer it forever.

Yes. Onboarding flows are fully customizable per role, department, and seniority. An engineer's Day 1 looks different from a designer's, and Sakha delivers each one automatically with progress tracking for managers.

You pick a plan and keep going, or walk away with no charge. The trial includes full access to everything: onboarding flows, the knowledge base, contract review, and policy generation. No credit card is required to start, so there are no surprise charges.

Stop losing your best people to bad first impressions. #

Your next new hire deserves a companion, not a checklist.

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