Your Onboarding Is Broken

An episode of the AI for Founders with Ryan Estes podcast, hosted by aiforfounders.co, titled "Your Onboarding Is Broken" was published on December 9, 2025 and runs 57 minutes.

December 9, 2025 ·57m · AI for Founders with Ryan Estes

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Summary

Welcome to AI for Founders, I'm Ryan Estes.Today’s episode starts with a problem every founder knows too well:You finally get a user into your product… and then watch them get completely lost.They bounce. They churn. Or they email support with the dreaded:“Hey uh… how do I actually use this?”That onboarding black hole costs SaaS companies billions — and Alex and Andy from Quarterzip.ai say it’s time to kill “activation debt” forever.These two founders sold their last AI company, immediately spun into their next one, and created an entirely new onboarding modality: a real-time AI voice agent that sees your screen, talks to you, guides your steps, and can literally move your cursor for you.They’ve onboarded users across entire product ecosystems without a single line of engineering integration — and booked 250 demos in 48 hours at launch.Today we dig into:The origin story behind QuarterzipWhy onboarding is the hidden growth lever no one talks aboutHow AI design is shifting from textboxes to vision-driven, voice-guided workflowsRemote co-founding across SF and AustraliaAnd what comes after the chatbot eraIf you’re a founder building AI, building with AI, or scaling a product with too many features and too few hands — this episode is for you.https://quarterzip.aihttps://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-valente-829989100/https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewpankevicius/__https://aiforfounders.co/ https://ambient.us⁠⁠https://codestory.co⁠https://warmstart.ai ⁠⁠https://kitcaster.com/application ⁠⁠https://ryanestes.info⁠

Episode Description

Welcome to AI for Founders, I'm Ryan Estes.

Today’s episode starts with a problem every founder knows too well:
You finally get a user into your product… and then watch them get completely lost.
They bounce. They churn. Or they email support with the dreaded:
“Hey uh… how do I actually use this?”

That onboarding black hole costs SaaS companies billions — and Alex and Andy from Quarterzip.ai say it’s time to kill “activation debt” forever.

These two founders sold their last AI company, immediately spun into their next one, and created an entirely new onboarding modality: a real-time AI voice agent that sees your screen, talks to you, guides your steps, and can literally move your cursor for you.
They’ve onboarded users across entire product ecosystems without a single line of engineering integration — and booked 250 demos in 48 hours at launch.

Today we dig into:

The origin story behind Quarterzip
Why onboarding is the hidden growth lever no one talks about
How AI design is shifting from textboxes to vision-driven, voice-guided workflows
Remote co-founding across SF and Australia
And what comes after the chatbot era

If you’re a founder building AI, building with AI, or scaling a product with too many features and too few hands — this episode is for you.

https://quarterzip.ai

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-valente-829989100/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewpankevicius/

https://aiforfounders.co/

https://ambient.us⁠

⁠https://codestory.co

⁠https://warmstart.ai ⁠

⁠https://kitcaster.com/application ⁠

⁠https://ryanestes.info⁠