Onboarding is where promises meet reality. Investment clubs, RIAs, and internal research pods rarely fail because they lack ambition — they fail because attention is finite and tooling sprawl steals it.
Start from jobs-to-be-done
We orient onboarding around three repeatable jobs:
| Job |
Outcome |
| Discover |
Find candidates that match a disciplined thesis without endless manual screening |
| Monitor |
Know when something meaningfully changed — not when a vendor refreshed a logo |
| Decide |
Compare peers with consistent metrics and percentile context |
When assistance enters the picture, it should shorten those loops, not add another inbox category.
Designing alerts humans actually open
Effective alerts share traits:
- Specific trigger — dividend cut vs generic “price moved.”
- Scoped universe — symbols the team already owns research on.
- Quiet defaults — suppress duplicates and noisy churn.
Buydy’s heatmap and email digests inherit the same philosophy as our disclosure work: precision beats coverage when the alternative is false confidence.
Coaching beats configuration
The fastest wins usually come from one saved view shared across a desk: consistent columns, agreed percentile cuts, and a shared language for “interesting.” Everything else is commentary.
If your desk is experimenting with collaborative workflows, export that view, annotate the narrative once, and iterate weekly — complexity can arrive later.
Have a workflow you wish existed out of the box? Tell us — several roadmap items started as a single well-written customer paragraph.