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Gamified onboarding by Validev

Every third new hire quits within 90 days. Yours don't have to.

We build custom onboarding simulations — interactive, branching story games that get new employees productive faster, while HR sees real-time analytics before problems turn into resignations.

Interactive onboarding scenario screen
Team video call inside the simulation
1 in 3 new hires leaves within the first 90 days
+82% higher new-hire retention with a strong onboarding process
up to 1000% ROI in the first year — see the math below

The problem

Weak onboarding has a price tag

Take a company hiring 5 people a month at a $3,000 average salary. Here's what onboarding failure costs — and what fixing it returns.

~$7,500 the cost of one hire who doesn't pass probation (2–3× salary in hiring and adaptation costs)
$150,000 lost per year if 1 in 3 of your hires leaves within 90 days
+40% retention uplift we assume — half of the 82% reported for strong onboarding
~1000% ROI $60,000 saved per year against a $6,000 one-time product cost

Sources: Glassdoor — strong onboarding improves new-hire retention by 82% and productivity by over 70% · Psychology Today — 30–33% of employees leave within the first three months. Productivity gains are excluded from this calculation on purpose: margins differ too much between companies to promise a number.

Results also depend on how you onboard people today, your company culture and working conditions.

The ripple effect

One failed hire costs 2–3× their salary

Re-hiring costs

Replacing a failed hire costs recruiter time, job ads, sign-on costs.

Slow ramp-up

Every extra week of adaptation is a week of reduced KPIs — paid at full rate.

Team drag

Colleagues spend project hours onboarding the newcomer and fixing avoidable mistakes.

Policy overhead

HR and Legal repeat the same policy and contract explanations for every single hire.

The product

Onboarding as a playable story

Your new hire's first weeks, rebuilt as an interactive simulation. They walk into a virtual office, meet the team, and make real decisions inside your real processes — learning by doing instead of reading a PDF.

  • Branching scenarios built on your processes and policies
  • Runs in the browser — no install, LMS integration optional
  • Every decision feeds a live dashboard HR can act on
Interactive onboarding scenario screen
Team video call inside the simulation

What you get

Outcomes you can measure

Every result maps to a metric you can track against your own baseline.

01

Faster time-to-productivity

New hires reach their target KPIs sooner because they learn by doing — inside a simulation of your real processes, not a PDF.

Measured by Days to reference KPI

02

Higher 90-day retention

A clear, unified onboarding path keeps more people through the critical first quarter.

Measured by 90-day retention % · eNPS

03

Early-warning analytics

HR and leadership see who's struggling in real time — and know when a 1:1 is needed, before the resignation letter.

Measured by Time to HR signal

04

Less time explaining policies

Company policies and contracts are built into the game — with comprehension checks. HR stops repeating itself.

Measured by HR / Legal hours saved

Packages

Start small or go fully custom

Starter

$700

Ready in 2–4 business days

  • Ready-made onboarding game
  • Administration panel
  • Your texts and policies
  • The fastest way to test the format
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Max

$25,000

Ready in 4–8 weeks

  • Everything in Custom scenario
  • New interactives built for you
  • Any topic: security training, performance review, strategic planning, teambuilding
Discuss your case

LMS integration is optional and priced separately — any LMS with an API, delivered in 1–2 weeks. No LMS? We'll help you choose one.

Case study

How we elevated onboarding
for a design agency

Bright Nation Validev

A creative design and development studio tested the simulation as a way to turn internal processes, rules and real agency cases into practical onboarding for new team members.

6 new-hires participated
5/6 reported high clarity level
6/6 finished test period
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“What I liked about the simulation is that it turns onboarding from passive reading into a practical experience. For agency teams, this can be very useful because new people can go through real situations, understand internal logic and get feedback without asking managers the same questions again and again.”

Svitlana Trutenko Svitlana Trutenko Owner, Bright Nation

Is this for you?

We're honest about fit

A strong fit if you're

  • Hiring 5+ people per quarter
  • Growing fast and building HR processes on the run
  • Hiring actively without headcount growth — a sign retention is leaking

Probably not for you if

  • You hire fewer than 3 people per quarter
  • You need a full LMS platform, not an onboarding setup

Take a look yourself

On a 30-minute demo we'll walk you through a live scenario, the HR analytics view, and estimate your ROI on your own hiring numbers.