HR Tech | Coolstory

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Compliance-Heavy

40% of onboarding time goes to compliance tasks, leaving no room for culture or connection.

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Mobile-First

80M+ deskless workers can't access desktop portals. Your onboarding has to reach them where they are.

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Fast-Moving

New policies, tools, and benefits land before employees finish understanding the last ones.

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Retention-Critical

33% of new hires leave within 90 days. Most quit before they ever find their rhythm.

+82%

Better retention

Companies with great onboarding keep dramatically more people through their first year.

+70%

Faster productivity

New hires guided in context, not from documents, reach full speed far sooner.

Task completion

Visual walkthroughs drive twice the completion rate of email-based onboarding instructions.

-30%

Support tickets

Reduce "how do I do X?" requests by walking employees through tasks visually.

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New Hire Activation

Walk new hires to their first self-service win. Benefits enrolled, direct deposit set, first 1:1 booked.

trending_up 2x task completion vs email

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Change Communication

Push policy updates, tool rollouts, and benefits changes natively in your HR app. No buried email threads.

trending_up 60% higher read rates vs email

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Preboarding Journeys

Start before Day 1. Give new hires a warm intro to their team, manager, and culture before they badge in.

trending_up Higher Day-1 confidence scores

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People Operations

Design and publish onboarding journeys without waiting on a developer sprint.

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Employee Experience

Run change comms and policy updates natively in the app, not via email blasts.

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HR Business Partner

Tailor onboarding stories by department, location, or role without touching code.

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L&D

Surface training content and compliance reminders at exactly the right moment.

You get this…

Instagram-like stories within your web or mobile app

Coolstory widget showing story circles with avatars: Latest news, Highlights, Q&A, Upcoming, Backstage

…with this

A few lines of code

<div id="coolstory-container"></div>
<script
    type="module"
    src="https://app.coolstory.me/widget/widget.js"
></script>

Story management

Manage every aspect of your stories in one place, from creation to publishing.

Scheduling

Schedule stories to go live at specific times and set expiration dates for temporary promotions or announcements.

Analytics

Track story views, completion rates, and click-throughs with real-time metrics.

Segmentation

Segment users based on behavior, demographics, or app activity to deliver tailored stories to the right audiences.

Interactions

Add buttons, polls, CTAs, and swipe-ups directly in stories to drive user actions.

AI generation

Use one of our integrations to generate stories from text and speed-up production further.

Multi-format

Seamlessly incorporate images, short videos, and GIFs into stories to diversify content.

Cross-platform

Deploy stories that look and feel consistent on iOS, Android, and web platforms.

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Web

A simple and lightweight JS library built for maximum compatibility.

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React Native

A robust SDK for cross-platform apps built with React Native

Trial

check 100 views
check 1 story
check 1 widget
check Limited support

Starter

check 100,000 views per month
check Unlimited stories
check 1 widget
check Email support

Pro

check 500,000 views per month
check Unlimited stories
check Unlimited widgets
check Customizable tooltips
check 24/7 Priority support
check Segmentation

Enterprise

check Everything in Pro
check Custom interactions
check Rate limiting
check Data residency options
check Bulk data import/export

How Readdle improved their activation by 70% with stories

Why use stories in an HR app? add

Because policy docs, email blasts, and onboarding portals don't work. Only 12% of employees say their company's onboarding is excellent. Stories deliver the right information at the right moment, in a format employees actually open and finish.

Can I use stories to reduce 90-day attrition? add

Yes. The biggest driver of early attrition is confusion — new hires who don't know what to do or where to find help disengage fast. Stories walk employees through their first wins: benefits enrolled, direct deposit set, first manager 1:1 booked. That momentum is what keeps people.

Do I need developers to run onboarding campaigns? add

Only once, for the initial integration. After that, People Ops, Employee Experience, or L&D teams can create, schedule, and publish stories independently — no engineering tickets required.

Can I target stories to specific employee groups? add

Yes. Use segmentation to show role-specific onboarding to sales hires, location-specific policy updates to field teams, and department-level content to each business unit — all from one dashboard.

Does this work for deskless or frontline workers? add

Yes. Coolstory's mobile SDKs work on any HR app running on iOS or Android. If your retail, warehouse, or field teams use a mobile HR app, stories reach them directly on that device — no corporate email or desktop required.

Can I schedule preboarding stories before Day 1? add

Yes. Schedule stories to publish on specific dates with automatic expiration. Your preboarding sequence can start after offer acceptance and end automatically when the employee's first week begins — no manual work on each cohort.

How do I know if stories are driving onboarding completions? add

Coolstory gives you analytics on views, completion rates, and click-throughs per story. You can see which onboarding moments drive action and which ones employees skip — and adjust accordingly.

Does this replace our HRIS or LMS? add

No. Coolstory sits inside your existing HR app and surfaces the right content at the right moment. It works alongside your HRIS, LMS, or onboarding platform — not instead of them.

Cut new hire churn with stories

Modern HR tech is…

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