The onboarding leak is the gap between someone signing up and actually using your product — and it's usually the cheapest leak to plug, because you already paid to get that user in the door. Free Builder's scaffold ships auth, payments, and a working dashboard out of the box, so fixing onboarding is a matter of tightening what's already there, not building new infrastructure.
Here's the 30-minute version:
- Sign up as a new user yourself and time the path from signup to first real result.
- Cut every screen that doesn't move the user toward that first result.
- Set one default action a logged-in user hits immediately — a sample project, a pre-filled form, a template.
- Direct your AI worker to add a short onboarding checklist or tooltip inside the dashboard the scaffold already gives you.
- Wire a simple "activated" event so you can see the leak instead of guessing at it.
- Ship it, watch the next few signups, and adjust.
You're not coding this — you're directing it, the same way you direct the rest of the build. You decide what "activated" means for your product; the AI worker implements it inside the scaffold's boundaries; you review and approve.
If onboarding is where you're losing people right now, fix it before adding any new feature. A leaky funnel makes every other improvement look smaller than it actually is.