ChiefOnboarding
Employee onboarding platform that allows you to provision user accounts and create sequences with todo items, resources, text/email/Slack messages, and more! Available as a web portal and Slack bot.
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Commit activity more than 15% of tracked projects; popularity more than 34%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 930 |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v2.5.0 · 10 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 15 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Built with | Docker |
Is ChiefOnboarding actively maintained?
Development is ongoing. The repository recorded 35 commits over the same window, and the last three months alone account for 7 of them.
The most recent tagged release, v2.5.0, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
ChiefOnboarding ranks #19 of 32 in Automation, placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What ChiefOnboarding actually does
ChiefOnboarding is a self-hosted employee onboarding platform designed to help teams provision user accounts and automate introductory tasks. It offers both a web portal interface and a Slack bot to manage sequences of to-do items, resources, and automated messages.
Best fit: It is a suitable fit for organisations running internal infrastructure that want to automate the repetitive administrative tasks associated with welcoming new team members.
Worth knowing: The project exhibits slowing development activity and relies on the AGPL-3.0 licence, which may carry strict compliance implications if you modify and distribute the source code within your network.
Deployment notes
As a Docker-based application, you will typically need to configure persistent volumes for data storage and place the container behind a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.
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