Onboarding delays come from the handoffs, not the work
Customer-onboarding swimlane - 5 lanes x 5 phases + handoffs, Security bottleneck
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A board cross-functional swimlane: enterprise SaaS customer onboarding. Lanes: Sales, Customer Success, Legal, Security (bottleneck, emphasized), Platform Ops. Phases: Contract signed, Kickoff, Security review, Technical setup, Go-live. Sales confirms scope and sends the order package; Legal validates non-standard terms; CS runs kickoff and captures success criteria; Platform Ops confirms tenant + integration assumptions; Security sends questionnaire and risk classification; Legal reviews DPA exceptions; Platform Ops provisions the tenant, SSO and sandbox; Security signs off controls; CS runs enablement and success-plan handover; Platform Ops monitors first-week incidents; Sales transitions sponsor ownership. Handoffs: order package -> kickoff -> security questionnaire -> tenant setup -> go-live handover. Takeaway: standardize the security handoff and tenant-readiness checklist to cut onboarding by two weeks.
Render it
Structured intent — create_slide payload
Copy-paste-ready. Renders deterministically (verbatim, no LLM). Add a theme_id for any of the built-in themes — the layout stays identical.
{
"form": "swimlane_flow",
"variant": "process_swimlane",
"headline": "Onboarding delays come from the handoffs, not the work",
"context": "Enterprise customer onboarding - who does what, by phase",
"takeaway": "Standardize the security handoff and tenant-readiness checklist to cut onboarding by two weeks.",
"data": {
"phases": [
{
"id": "contract",
"label": "Contract signed"
},
{
"id": "kickoff",
"label": "Kickoff"
},
{
"id": "security",
"label": "Security review"
},
{
"id": "setup",
"label": "Technical setup"
},
{
"id": "golive",
"label": "Go-live"
}
],
"lanes": [
{
"id": "sales",
"label": "Sales"
},
{
"id": "cs",
"label": "Customer Success"
},
{
"id": "legal",
"label": "Legal"
},
{
"id": "security",
"label": "Security",
"emphasis": "primary"
},
{
"id": "platform",
"label": "Platform Ops"
}
],
"activities": [
{
"id": "a1",
"lane_id": "sales",
"phase_id": "contract",
"title": "Send order package",
"detail": "Scope + sponsor notes"
},
{
"id": "a2",
"lane_id": "legal",
"phase_id": "contract",
"title": "Validate terms",
"detail": "Non-standard clauses"
},
{
"id": "a3",
"lane_id": "cs",
"phase_id": "kickoff",
"title": "Run kickoff",
"detail": "Capture success criteria"
},
{
"id": "a4",
"lane_id": "platform",
"phase_id": "kickoff",
"title": "Confirm tenant",
"detail": "Integration assumptions"
},
{
"id": "a5",
"lane_id": "security",
"phase_id": "security",
"title": "Risk questionnaire",
"detail": "Classify + send"
},
{
"id": "a6",
"lane_id": "legal",
"phase_id": "security",
"title": "DPA exceptions"
},
{
"id": "a7",
"lane_id": "cs",
"phase_id": "security",
"title": "Keep customer aligned"
},
{
"id": "a8",
"lane_id": "platform",
"phase_id": "setup",
"title": "Provision tenant",
"detail": "SSO + sandbox"
},
{
"id": "a9",
"lane_id": "security",
"phase_id": "setup",
"title": "Sign off controls",
"detail": "SSO + audit logging"
},
{
"id": "a10",
"lane_id": "cs",
"phase_id": "golive",
"title": "Enablement handover",
"detail": "Success plan"
},
{
"id": "a11",
"lane_id": "platform",
"phase_id": "golive",
"title": "Monitor week one"
},
{
"id": "a12",
"lane_id": "sales",
"phase_id": "golive",
"title": "Transition sponsor"
}
],
"handoffs": [
{
"from": "a1",
"to": "a3",
"label": "order package"
},
{
"from": "a3",
"to": "a5",
"label": "kickoff notes"
},
{
"from": "a5",
"to": "a8",
"label": "cleared"
},
{
"from": "a8",
"to": "a10",
"label": "tenant ready"
}
]
}
}cURL (REST)
curl -X POST https://dev-api.slideforge.dev/v1/render/intent \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sf_live_..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"form":"swimlane_flow","variant":"process_swimlane","headline":"Onboarding delays come from the handoffs, not the work","context":"Enterprise customer onboarding - who does what, by phase","takeaway":"Standardize the security handoff and tenant-readiness checklist to cut onboarding by two weeks.","data":{"phases":[{"id":"contract","label":"Contract signed"},{"id":"kickoff","label":"Kickoff"},{"id":"security","label":"Security review"},{"id":"setup","label":"Technical setup"},{"id":"golive","label":"Go-live"}],"lanes":[{"id":"sales","label":"Sales"},{"id":"cs","label":"Customer Success"},{"id":"legal","label":"Legal"},{"id":"security","label":"Security","emphasis":"primary"},{"id":"platform","label":"Platform Ops"}],"activities":[{"id":"a1","lane_id":"sales","phase_id":"contract","title":"Send order package","detail":"Scope + sponsor notes"},{"id":"a2","lane_id":"legal","phase_id":"contract","title":"Validate terms","detail":"Non-standard clauses"},{"id":"a3","lane_id":"cs","phase_id":"kickoff","title":"Run kickoff","detail":"Capture success criteria"},{"id":"a4","lane_id":"platform","phase_id":"kickoff","title":"Confirm tenant","detail":"Integration assumptions"},{"id":"a5","lane_id":"security","phase_id":"security","title":"Risk questionnaire","detail":"Classify + send"},{"id":"a6","lane_id":"legal","phase_id":"security","title":"DPA exceptions"},{"id":"a7","lane_id":"cs","phase_id":"security","title":"Keep customer aligned"},{"id":"a8","lane_id":"platform","phase_id":"setup","title":"Provision tenant","detail":"SSO + sandbox"},{"id":"a9","lane_id":"security","phase_id":"setup","title":"Sign off controls","detail":"SSO + audit logging"},{"id":"a10","lane_id":"cs","phase_id":"golive","title":"Enablement handover","detail":"Success plan"},{"id":"a11","lane_id":"platform","phase_id":"golive","title":"Monitor week one"},{"id":"a12","lane_id":"sales","phase_id":"golive","title":"Transition sponsor"}],"handoffs":[{"from":"a1","to":"a3","label":"order package"},{"from":"a3","to":"a5","label":"kickoff notes"},{"from":"a5","to":"a8","label":"cleared"},{"from":"a8","to":"a10","label":"tenant ready"}]}}'Related templates
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