Onboarding

Employee onboarding quizzes new hires actually finish

Done-for-you employee onboarding quiz packs that turn company values, policies, first-week knowledge, training docs, and team lore into a hosted game instead of another document to skim. Branded, voiced, shipped by link in 2 business days.

$149 one-time pack includes a branded hosted game, source-grounded questions, AI host voice, share copy, and one revision pass. No demo call required.

Done-for-you pack

Start with one sendable proof asset.

Buy a single done-for-you game pack before committing to a workspace. We turn your brief into a hosted Trivana link with launch copy, then you share it wherever your audience already is.

No demo call2 business daysOne revision pass
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Proof game

New Hire Onboarding Demo

Use this as the first outbound asset. Send the proof page, let buyers try the game, then offer to make a branded version for their audience.

Use-case guide

How this becomes a reusable event asset

Most onboarding programs at 10-200 person companies are a stack of documents nobody finishes. A welcome doc, a values handbook, a product overview, a security training PDF, an intro Notion page, a benefits summary, a Slack tour, a tools list. New hires open them on day 1, scroll through, mark them done, and forget 80% of the content by week 2. Then their manager spends 8-12 hours over the next month answering Slack questions that were literally in the welcome doc — because skimming isn't learning.

The Trivana onboarding trivia game pack is a different shape. Instead of asking new hires to read documents, you give them a hosted game built from those same documents. The AI voice host walks them through 10 questions about company values, product context, team facts, and policy — the same content, delivered as a 12-minute game that scores in real time. New hires actually finish it (free trial completion data shows 87%+ vs typical handbook completion rates of 20-30%) and the act of competing on the questions forces active recall instead of passive reading.

When you buy a pack, you send a short brief: the cohort size, the role mix (engineering hires, sales hires, customer success), brand context, and source materials we should ground the questions in — the actual handbook, the values doc, the product intro deck, the Notion onboarding page. Trivana's team writes the round around your real content (not generic onboarding-trivia from a blog post), picks the voice host that fits your culture, records the host's voice lines, and ships a single shareable link within 2 business days. One revision pass is included to swap questions or adjust difficulty before the cohort starts.

For onboarding specifically, the $399 Three-Pack Campaign is the strongest fit. The three rounds typically split: (1) Company values + culture, (2) Policy + first-week knowledge (security training, expense policy, leave structure, tools setup), (3) Team context + product intro (how the product works, who the team is, what customers we serve). Sending all three over a new hire's first week — one per day, played during onboarding sessions or async between meetings — is far more effective than one document dump.

The async-friendly format is what makes this work for distributed teams. New hires can play the company-values round before their first day starts (drop the link in the welcome email). They walk into Monday morning already knowing the team's vocabulary, the founding story, and the three values everyone references. That removes the awkward day-1 catch-up where the manager has to re-explain everything. Trivana's hosted format works across timezones — same link, same scoring, no need to schedule a live session.

Best fit for the onboarding pack model: People Ops or HR leads at 10-500 person companies running 1+ new-hire cohort per quarter; enablement teams shipping product or sales onboarding programs; founders at pre-Series-A companies who need repeatable culture transfer before they can hire an HR head; HR consultants white-labeling onboarding programs for client teams. If you're hiring more than 5 people per month, the $99/mo Trivana Teams plan is typically cleaner than buying packs individually each time.

Onboarding trivia is also the gateway to adjacent compliance training. Once the company-values pack is shipping, the same pack-delivery process works for security training refreshers, policy updates, code-of-conduct walkthroughs, and annual compliance attestation. The format converts a yearly box-checking exercise into a 15-minute hosted round that employees actually retain. See the compliance training games guide for the security/policy variant of this play.

Activation plan

Four ways to use the pack

Brief and source

Send the cohort context plus the actual onboarding source material — handbook excerpts, values doc, product intro deck, security training PDF, Notion onboarding page. The more specific the source, the more the pack feels like YOUR onboarding (not generic).

  • +Cohort size + role mix (eng/sales/CS/ops)
  • +Frequency (monthly cohort / quarterly / one-off)
  • +Source docs (handbook, values, product, policy, team)
  • +Tone (formal / startup-casual / mission-driven)
  • +Topics to AVOID (recent layoffs, in-flight policy changes, named individuals)

Pack delivery (2 business days for $149 single, 3-5 for $399 three-pack)

Trivana's team writes the round around your source material, validates each question with cross-model fact-check (won't invent facts about your company), picks the host voice, and ships a draft + one revision pass.

  • +Questions grounded in YOUR handbook/values/product
  • +Cross-model fact-check (no AI hallucinations)
  • +Voice host pick from 7 personalities
  • +Branded scorecard with your logo
  • +One revision pass to swap questions or tune difficulty

Cohort delivery

Drop the link in the welcome email pre-day-1, or run it live during cohort kickoff, or split across the first week. The async-friendly format works for distributed teams without needing a live session.

  • +Pre-day-1: link in welcome email so new hires arrive grounded
  • +Day-1 live: run during cohort kickoff as a competitive warm-up
  • +Week 1 spread: one pack per day across values/policy/team
  • +Async self-paced: new hires play between meetings
  • +Cohort scoreboard creates day-1 social moment across distributed hires

Refresh and reuse across cohorts

Same pack runs for the next cohort and the cohort after that. Refresh annually as values evolve or product changes. The asset compounds — one $149 pack spread across 12 cohorts is ~$12/cohort.

  • +Pack stays live and reusable across cohorts
  • +Annual refresh to update product or values changes
  • +Optional: pair with the values-quiz round at 6-month employee check-ins
  • +Track which questions new hires get wrong → surfaces handbook gaps
  • +Becomes a culture-transfer ritual, not a one-off onboarding task

Built for

People ops, enablement leads, founders, HR consultants, and team leads running new-hire cohorts at 10-500 person companies

Paid pack fit

Start with the $149 Async Trivia Pack for a single onboarding round (best for first hire or a one-time cohort). The $399 Three-Pack Campaign is the strongest fit for onboarding: it covers three angles in sequence — company values, policy / first-week knowledge, and team context / product intro. Trivana Teams at $99/mo unlocks unlimited reuse with 5 creator seats once cohorts are running monthly.

Best-fit buyer signals

  • +You run regular new-hire onboarding cohorts (1+ per quarter) and want consistency across them.
  • +New hires don't seem to remember what was in the handbook by week 2 — managers re-explain the same content repeatedly.
  • +Onboarding time is one of your highest manager-time costs — engineering or sales leads losing 8-12 hours per new hire on Slack questions.
  • +You want to test values absorption without making it feel like a quiz or a compliance exercise.
  • +Your team is distributed and new hires onboard remotely without a strong day-1 shared moment.
  • +You're a founder at a pre-Series-A company building onboarding before you've hired an HR head.

Why buyers care

  • -New hires skim docs but do not retain the important details — by week 2 they cannot recall what the company actually stands for.
  • -Small teams do not want a heavy LMS workflow — SAP SuccessFactors or Workday is overkill before the company hits 100 people.
  • -Founders need onboarding to feel repeatable BEFORE it becomes enterprise process — the founder running first-week orientation in person doesn't scale past 20 hires.
  • -Values training feels preachy when delivered as a slide deck or a PDF — new hires nod through it without absorbing it.
  • -Manager onboarding time is one of the company's highest pre-product-launch costs — every new hire eats ~10 hours of manager time on Slack questions that should have been retained from week 1.
  • -Distributed new hires lose connection to team culture when they onboard solo over Zoom — without a hosted shared moment, they treat the company like a series of disconnected meetings.

What they get

  • +A reusable onboarding game that ships once and runs for every new cohort
  • +A friendlier values check that doesn't feel like a quiz or a compliance exercise
  • +A shareable link for each cohort — drop in Slack, send pre-day-1, run during cohort kickoff
  • +Async-friendly delivery so new hires play before their first day to arrive grounded
  • +Reduces manager re-explanation time by surfacing which details actually landed
  • +Compounds across cohorts — same pack, refreshed annually, works for years

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FAQ

Can the game use our actual onboarding material?

Yes — and this is the core of the value. Send URLs, PDFs, handbook excerpts, values docs, product-intro decks, and any Notion or Confluence pages in the brief. Trivana grounds the question generation in your real source material via cross-model fact-check, so questions reference YOUR company specifics (your three values, your product modules, your founding story) rather than generic onboarding-trivia from a template.

Is this a replacement for an LMS like Workday Learning or SuccessFactors?

No — it's a lightweight engagement layer that sits alongside whatever system of record you use. LMS platforms are built for compliance tracking, completion records, and audit trails. Trivana onboarding packs are built for retention and culture transfer. Most People Ops teams at 10-500 person companies use Trivana for the engagement layer and either skip the LMS entirely (until they're 200+ employees) or run Trivana + a light LMS like Lessonly or Notion-based tracking.

How fast can the first onboarding game ship?

2 business days from approved brief for the $149 single Async Trivia Pack. The $399 Three-Pack Campaign ships across 3-5 business days for all three rounds (values + policy + team context). Rush turnaround (24 hours) is available for single packs — flag it in the brief form. Self-serve generation runs in under 5 minutes for a generic onboarding round on the free plan.

How is this different from a quiz on our handbook?

A handbook quiz is a list of questions someone has to write, score, and host. The Trivana pack is a hosted experience — the AI voice host reads each question with personality, the timer creates real urgency, real-time scoring runs across every device, and at the end every new hire sees a shareable scorecard. The cohort competes in real time which produces a shared social moment. It's the difference between assigning homework and running a gameshow.

Can new hires play the onboarding game before their first day?

Yes — and this is one of the strongest use patterns. Drop the company-values round into the welcome email after offer-accept signing. New hires play it during the gap between signing and starting (often 2-4 weeks). They walk into day 1 already knowing the team's vocabulary, the founding story, and the values everyone references. Managers report this removes ~50% of the day-1 catch-up explanation overhead.

How do you handle company-confidential content in the questions?

The brief is where you tell us what's in-scope and what's out. Public-facing content (about page, blog, values, product launch posts) is the most common source material. Internal-confidential content (customer names, revenue numbers, strategic plans) should stay out of the questions — these go in your LMS or live training instead. Trivana never invents facts about your company; if it's not in the source material we won't generate a question about it.

What if our values change? Can we update the pack?

Yes. Updates are available at any time — send the revised values/handbook content and the team will re-write affected questions. The $149 pack includes one revision pass at delivery. Subsequent revisions are billed at $49 per major refresh. Annual refresh as values evolve is a common pattern; most teams refresh once per year as they update onboarding content.

Can this work for compliance training and policy refreshers too?

Yes. Once the onboarding pack is running, the same delivery process works for security training, code-of-conduct attestation, GDPR refreshers, expense-policy updates, and annual compliance modules. The format converts a yearly box-checking exercise into a 15-minute hosted round employees actually retain. See the compliance training games guide for the security/policy-specific framing.

How does this integrate with our Slack, Notion, or onboarding workflow?

Trivana packs ship as shareable links — drop them in Slack channels, embed in Notion onboarding pages, paste into welcome emails, add as a step in your onboarding checklist, or share via QR code on a slide during cohort kickoff. There's no integration setup; the link works in any tool. A dedicated Slack app for in-channel play is on the roadmap.