Customer stories

Teams capturing knowledge,
not losing it

See how growing teams use Understudy to preserve institutional knowledge and accelerate onboarding — without forcing anyone to write documentation.

We lost two senior engineers in six months and watched months of tribal knowledge walk out the door with them. Understudy helped us capture what our remaining engineers knew before it was too late. Now onboarding is systematic, not tribal.

67% faster onboarding

Sarah Chen

VP of Engineering

Cascade Digital

Engineering
Our CS team had so much institutional knowledge locked in Slack threads and people's heads. When our star rep left, we realized we had no playbook for handling edge cases. Understudy extracted that knowledge in hours, not weeks of documentation sprints.

43% reduction in escalations

Marcus Rodriguez

Head of Customer Success

Basecamp Studios

Customer Success
Every time someone asked 'how do we handle X?', the answer was always 'ask Jamie.' When Jamie got promoted, we realized we'd been building a Jamie dependency, not a system. Understudy turned Jamie's knowledge into playbooks the whole team could use.

83% process consistency

Emily Winters

Chief of Staff

Riveter Agency

Operations
Documentation always felt like homework nobody wanted to do. Understudy made it feel like a conversation — my team actually enjoyed walking through their processes because they didn't have to write anything. The AI asked better follow-up questions than I would have.

5 critical processes documented in 2 weeks

David Park

Engineering Manager

Stumptown Creative

Engineering
We knew our onboarding was a mess — every new hire got a different experience depending on who trained them. Understudy helped us standardize everything without losing the nuance. Now every new hire gets the full context, not just the basics.

From 12 weeks to 4 weeks ramp time

Lisa Nakamura

Head of People Ops

NW Solutions Group

People
Audit trails require documented processes, but our documentation was always six months behind reality. Understudy let us capture what we actually do, not what we think we do. Our last audit was the smoothest we've ever had.

100% audit compliance

Michael Torres

Director of Compliance

Meridian Tech

Compliance

The impact of captured knowledge

67%
Average reduction in onboarding time
83%
Process consistency improvement
10 min
Average time to create a playbook

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