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Day 1 · Welcome interview

DAC's first day at acme.ai.

WELCOME INTERVIEWDay 1 · Cycle 14 · Onboarding · Hour 1
First day. I'm DAC.

I just read your product. Two minutes, four pages, the changelog, and the last 30 days of your changelog comments. Here's what I see before you tell me anything:

You're a Series B B2B SaaS, AI workflow product, roughly Stage 4 on team operations and Stage 2 on product. Your engineering output is stronger than your product story. That's the most common pattern I see in companies your stage, and the most coachable.

I have a 30-day onboarding plan in mind. Before I commit to it, five questions a senior hire would ask on day one:

  1. Who do I report to, and who reports to them?
  2. What's the one thing this quarter I should NOT touch yet?
  3. Where are the receipts? Slack channels, GitHub, Linear, anything I should be reading on day 2.
  4. Who on your team should I sync with first?
  5. What does success look like for me at the 30-day mark?

You can answer in any order. If you want to skip the questions for now, I'll proceed on the defaults and recalibrate at the 7-day mark.

Welcome me, and let's start.
— DAC
Day 1 · Cycle 14 · Onboarding · Hour 1

Synthetic artifact. Real DAC voice (operator-coach, tenure-modulated). Generated against acme.ai's 90-day timeline. The same artifact a real buyer gets at this milestone, in their own voice and against their own data. See ← timeline for the events DAC was reading.