Onboarding Flow Sprint for AI Products

Fix activation in 2 weeks. Stop users from signing up and disappearing. € 3.499,00 done-for-you.

Your AI product works. Users sign up. Then they leave before reaching the moment that would have made them stay. The Onboarding Flow Sprint is a focused 2-week engagement that redesigns your onboarding from first click to first ‘aha’ — using AI-accelerated research and prototyping to compress months of iteration into two weeks.

How we’re 2x faster than traditional agencies

Traditional Agency Approach:

• 2–3 weeks: User recruiting & scheduling
• 1–2 weeks: Interview analysis and synthesis
• 2 weeks: Wireframe iterations
• 2 weeks: User testing rounds
• Total: 7–9 weeks, € 8,000–15,000

Poplab AI-Accelerated Approach:

• AI-powered synthetic user testing (no recruiting delays)
• Same-day interview synthesis with AI tooling
• Rapid wireframe-to-prototype with Lovable/V0
• AI feedback loops replace scheduling cycles
• Total: 2 weeks, € 3,499

This is only possible because we’ve rebuilt dashboard design for the AI era.

Who this is for

This service is built for:

• AI SaaS teams with signups but activation rates below 30%
• Products where users reach the core feature but don’t take the first meaningful action
• Founders who’ve run A/B tests on CTAs and copy but haven’t touched the flow itself
• Teams preparing for a growth round who need activation metrics to show improvement
• Products with ‘time to value’ longer than 5 minutes — where users give up before seeing the return

The problem (and what it costs you)

Activation is the most important metric most AI startups under-invest in. Poor onboarding doesn’t show up as a single crisis — it bleeds out slowly, invisibly, in cohort after cohort.

Common symptoms:

• Users sign up during a demo or Product Hunt spike, then churn within 7 days
• Support tickets asking ‘how do I…’ for features that should be self-evident
• Feature adoption is flat because users never discovered the feature existed
• Retention curves that drop steeply in week 1, then flatten — meaning the problem is onboarding, not the product
• Onboarding that was built ‘temporarily’ 18 months ago and never touched since

Every percentage point of activation improvement compounds across every cohort you acquire. Fix onboarding once; pay the dividend forever.

What you get

Onboarding Flow Sprint — € 3.499,00 · 2 weeks · AI-Accelerated

• Activation audit: current onboarding flow mapped, friction points identified, drop-off stages located
• User interviews (4–6 sessions) with AI-powered insight synthesis — same-day analysis, not 2-week lag
• Synthetic persona testing: AI-generated user archetypes validate flows before any real user sees them
• Jobs-to-be-done mapping: what users actually hired your product to do vs. what your onboarding teaches them to do
• Redesigned onboarding flow: step-by-step UX from sign-up to first success moment (up to 8 screens)
• Empty state and zero-data screen design: what new users see before they’ve done anything matters enormously
• Copy review of all onboarding microcopy, tooltips, and progress indicators
• Interactive prototype in Figma + Lovable/V0 for team review and dev handoff
• Developer handoff package with annotated flows, interaction specs, and copy guidance

Process (2 weeks)

Week 1 — Discovery & Redesign

• Day 1–2: Kickoff + activation audit — current flow review, analytics snapshot, friction mapping
• Day 3–4: User interviews (4–6) with AI-powered synthesis — same-day insights, not a 2-week report
• Day 5–6: Jobs-to-be-done framework + ‘aha moment’ identification + redesigned flow architecture
• Day 7: Review session — flow walkthrough, alignment on design direction

Week 2 — Design, Prototype & Handoff

• Day 8–10: High-fidelity UI design for redesigned onboarding (up to 8 screens), including empty states
• Day 11–12: Synthetic user testing with AI-generated personas — flow refinement based on results
• Day 13–14: Interactive prototype, developer handoff documentation, Loom walkthrough
• Day 14 delivery: Production-ready onboarding redesign — validated, annotated, and ready to ship

Outcomes you can expect

• 15–35% improvement in activation rate within 30 days of shipping the redesigned flow
• Reduction in onboarding-related support tickets as ‘how do I…’ questions drop
• Faster time-to-value: users reach their first meaningful action in fewer steps and less time
• Improved D7 and D30 retention because users who activate properly churn at a fraction of the rate
• Clearer product narrative: better onboarding forces you to get clearer on what your product’s ‘one job’ actually is

Why this speed is only possible now

AI Tools We Use:

• Synthetic user testing: AI-generated personas provide flow feedback in hours, not weeks of recruiting
• AI interview synthesis: 6 user interviews analyzed and clustered in hours, not days
• Rapid prototyping: Lovable/V0 turns wireframes into interactive flows in a day, not a week
• AI-powered friction detection: pattern recognition across common onboarding failure modes

Traditional agencies can’t match this because they’re built for manual scheduling, sequential handoffs, and billing by the hour. We’re built for outcomes at startup speed.

Pricing, timeline, and terms

• Price: € 3.499,00 (excl. VAT)
• Timeline: 2 weeks from kickoff to developer handoff
• Payment: 50% to reserve the slot, 50% on delivery
• What you provide: Product access (staging link + test login), current analytics snapshot, list of top support tickets related to onboarding
• Revisions: 1 round of focused revisions included after the week 1 review
• Availability: 2 onboarding sprint slots per month
• What’s not included: Development/implementation (deliverable is Figma + specs), A/B test setup (available as add-on), full product redesign beyond onboarding scope
• Optional add-on: A/B testing setup and analytics event wiring — € 499