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“We went from 3 months of onboarding to 5 weeks. Understudy captured what our senior people know — the stuff that never made it into a doc.”
— Operations Lead, 45-person agency
“Documentation tools failed because they require people to write documentation.”
Blank pages don't capture knowledge. Conversations do. That's why Understudy interviews you instead of waiting for you to write.
How it works
Talk. Don't type.
01
Brain-dump what you know
Talk about your process however it comes out — messy, incomplete, out of order. That's the whole point. You know more than you think; you just need the right prompt.
02
AI asks the follow-ups you'd forget
Edge cases. Decision points. The "oh yeah, don't forget" moments you'd never think to write down. Understudy surfaces what matters through targeted questions.
03
Get a playbook anyone can follow
Steps, decision trees, roles, and exceptions — structured so a new hire on day one can execute it. Not a wall of text. A real operational document.
70%
of institutional knowledge is undocumented
$31.5B
lost annually by Fortune 500 to knowledge gaps
6 mo
average ramp time without proper docs
Built for
Teams that can't afford to lose what they know
Employee onboarding
New hires ramp in days, not months. The playbooks are ready before they walk in the door.
Standard operating procedures
Consistent execution across every team — documented the way people actually do the work.
Role transitions
When someone moves or leaves, their knowledge doesn't leave with them.
Compliance & audit
Processes that are documented to match reality, not an idealized version nobody follows.
Questions
Those give you a blank page. Most people stare at it, then close the tab. Understudy interviews you — asks the right follow-ups, catches edge cases, and structures everything automatically. You just talk.
10–15 minutes of conversation. Compare that to the hours of staring at a blank doc that never gets written.
That's the whole point. You don't need an outline or a template. Just describe what you do, and Understudy figures out the structure.
Yes. Conversations and playbooks are encrypted and never used to train models. Your institutional knowledge stays yours.
Yes — click 'Try it now' at the top. No signup, no credit card. Just describe a process and start talking.
Your first playbook in 10 minutes
No blank pages. No templates. Just a conversation about what you know — and a playbook your team can use tomorrow.