Onboarding · Day 0

Prepare the workspace. Route the first decision.

Day 0 is Auldric's onboarding flow. Bring the sources you trust; it shows what is known, assumed, missing, or disputed, then routes the first decision into Marketing Strategy or GTM.

Two operators organizing sources, assumptions, evidence, and recommended workflow routes in a Day 0 operating room.
Foundation

Included onboarding, not a third strategy route.

Day 0 prepares the workspace for source-backed work. It organises the material available, makes gaps and assumptions visible, and recommends Marketing Strategy or GTM as the first durable route. It is not a separate offer, and it does not promise that every external source is connected, imported, or indexed.

An operator reviewing source material, market memory, and evidence maps in a structured archive room.
Sources

Use the sources you have.

Use the documents, customer calls, notes, metrics, prior plans, research, and approved examples the team already trusts. Day 0 records the gaps instead of inventing the missing material.

Strategic foundation

Map the decisions behind the work.

Day 0 maps the current objective, audience, positioning, offer, proof, constraints, measures, and live question. Ready, partial, missing, and contradictory inputs stay distinct.

01 Objective

Name the commercial change the team is trying to make and the decision now in front of it.

02 Audience and offer

Record who the work is for, what is being offered, and what buying pressure is known.

03 Positioning and proof

Separate supported market choices and proof from provisional claims or missing evidence.

04 Constraints and measures

Keep operating limits, baselines, target definitions, source systems, and decision rules visible.

05 Live question

Identify the first decision that could materially change what the team should do next.

Evidence

Classify the evidence and gaps.

Every material claim should link to its evidence or carry the right warning. Thin evidence does not stop the work; it changes what Auldric can recommend and what the team needs to confirm.

Evidence present Source-backed

The evidence is present and ready for review.

Needs confirmation Provisional

The direction is plausible but needs confirmation.

Material gap Needs discovery

A missing answer could change the decision.

Pattern, not fact Heuristic

A useful pattern, clearly separated from fact.

Outputs

What onboarding prepares.

Day 0 prepares a source inventory, a clear record of what is known and missing, open questions, and a recommended first Marketing Strategy or GTM workflow.

Sources Source inventory

A record of the material currently available to the workspace and the state of each source.

Foundation Known, partial, or missing

A visible map of the objective, audience, positioning, offer, proof, constraints, and measures.

Questions Open evidence gaps

The unknowns and contradictions that could change the recommendation if resolved.

Route Recommended first workflow

A reasoned choice between Marketing Strategy and GTM, with unresolved evidence gaps carried into the selected route.

Route

Route into Marketing Strategy or GTM.

Choose Marketing Strategy for broader business direction or GTM for a market, offer, or launch decision. Each route shows which inputs are ready and which must be resolved.

Decision job Name the choice

Choose the workflow by the decision the team needs to make, not by a generic prompt.

Foundation Show route readiness

Ready, partial, missing, and contradictory inputs remain visible inside the chosen route.

Boundary Gate specialist work

Use the governing strategy—or keep the missing decision explicit—before specialist work begins.

Start

Complete onboarding. Start the right strategy.

Request access and bring the sources you trust. Once approved, Day 0 onboarding prepares the workspace and routes the first decision into Marketing Strategy or GTM.