Hr onboarding · Production

From six apps to one: Planful scales faster with all teams running on Notion

The problem

As Planful scaled past 500 employees across multiple time zones, each team had chosen its own software for project management, collaboration, and file storage. Information was scattered and unreliable across Monday.com, Box, Google Drive, Google Sites, and Lattice, leaving employees spending more time searching than doing productive work, and driving up meeting volume and Slack noise.

Workflow diagram · grounded in source
1
Company knowledge base built
Output
Planful built a unified workspace with employee handbooks, directories, policies, company updates, and procedures in Notion.
▾ source quote
“employees could now access a unified workspace complete with employee handbooks, directories, policies, company updates, and procedures. Planful also brought their onboarding and manager trainings into Notion, which cut onboarding time in half”
2
Team workflows migrated and integrated
Integration
Work was migrated from existing project management tools into Notion and specialized tools like Jira and Figma were integrated.
▾ source quote
“migrated work from their existing project management tools that Notion replaced. They were also able to reduce superfluous software licenses by integrating specialized tools like Jira and Figma”
3
Employee asks a work question
Trigger
Any employee can ask any question about work and find exactly what they need via Notion AI.
▾ source quote
“Any employee can ask any question about work, and they find exactly what they need”
4
Enterprise Search retrieves answer
Ai action
Enterprise Search finds answers from the Notion workspace and connected apps like Google Drive and Jira.
▾ source quote
“With Enterprise Search enabled right inside Notion, they get answers from their Notion workspace and connected apps like Google Drive and Jira”
5
AI synthesizes notes into docs
Ai action
Notion AI synthesizes raw notes and call transcripts into well-structured pages for sales handoff documentation.
▾ source quote
“sales teams, who now create handoff documentation about 4x faster by having Notion AI synthesize all their raw notes and call transcripts into well-structured pages”
Reported outcome

Centralizing on Notion cut onboarding time in half, enabled sales teams to produce handoff documentation about 4x faster, and achieved more than 90% weekly active usage across employees.
Account handoffs that previously took hours now take minutes, and Planful saved thousands on their tool stack.

Reported metrics
Onboarding timecut onboarding time in half
Sales handoff documentation speedabout 4x faster
weekly active Notion usersmore than 90%
Account handoff timein minutes instead of hours
Show all 7 reported metrics
onboarding timecut onboarding time in half
sales handoff documentation speedabout 4x faster
weekly active Notion usersmore than 90%
account handoff timein minutes instead of hours
employee ramp timeabout twice as fast
tool stack cost savingssaved Planful thousands on their tool stack
team productivityboosted productivity on every team
Reported stack
NotionNotion AIEnterprise SearchGoogle DriveJiraFigma
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What did this team achieve with this AI workflow?

Centralizing on Notion cut onboarding time in half, enabled sales teams to produce handoff documentation about 4x faster, and achieved more than 90% weekly active usage across employees.

What tools did this team use?

Notion, Notion AI, Enterprise Search, Google Drive, Jira, Figma.

What results were reported?

Onboarding time: cut onboarding time in half; Sales handoff documentation speed: about 4x faster; weekly active Notion users: more than 90%; Account handoff time: in minutes instead of hours (source-reported, not independently verified).

How is this hr onboarding AI workflow structured?

Company knowledge base built → Team workflows migrated and integrated → Employee asks a work question → Enterprise Search retrieves answer → AI synthesizes notes into docs.

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