Customer Onboarding Video
Onboarding videos that cut churn not corners
Turn help docs and rough screen recordings into polished walkthrough videos. Get new users to their first win in minutes. No video team. No production budget. No 8-hour editing sessions.
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"We wrote 40 help articles. Our trial-to-paid conversion hasn't moved."
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You're a product or CS lead at a growing SaaS company.
Trial signups are healthy, but activation is stuck.
New users sign up, poke around for a few minutes, and quietly disappear before they ever reach the feature that would make them stay.
Your current onboarding is a knowledge base with screenshots and a drip email sequence.
Users open the first article, skim past the intro, and close the tab.
The ones who try to follow along get lost toggling between your docs and your product.
Most never make it past step three.
Nobody reads the docs You built a 40-article help center. Users skim the first paragraph and close the tab. Text-based onboarding has single-digit completion rates.
8+ hours per video Recording, editing, adding callouts, syncing voiceover. A single 3-minute onboarding video eats an entire workday.
Stale before you ship Your next product release makes every existing walkthrough a liability. But re-shooting means starting the production cycle from scratch.
CS can't keep up Your customer success team spends half their week answering the same setup questions. Bandwidth is the bottleneck, not willingness.
23% of customer churn traces back to poor onboarding. Every confused trial user is revenue you already paid to acquire.
From "I'll figure it out later" to "I got this" in their first session
The Old Way
Before ngram
The ngram Way
After ngram
A new user signs up on Tuesday morning. They land on your dashboard, scan for a starting point, and open your help center. A 1,400-word article with 16 screenshots loads. They read two paragraphs, lose their place switching between tabs, and give up.
Same user signs up. Before confusion sets in, a 90-second onboarding video shows them exactly how to complete their first task. Smart zooms highlight every button. Captions let them follow along on mute. Step labels tell them what comes next.
Your automated email hits their inbox two days later asking if they need help. No reply. They're already evaluating a competitor whose product tour made sense in 90 seconds.
They finish the core workflow in their first session. They feel capable. They come back the next morning and explore a second feature on their own.
Your CS team finds out when the cancellation notification pops up. By then, the user has already made their decision. Another paid acquisition, wasted.
A week later, they convert to paid. Your CS team never intervened. When your product ships a UI update Friday, you update the onboarding video Monday morning in five minutes. No freelancer. No reshoot. No stale content.
The Numbers Don't Lie
Time to create
8+ hours (DIY) or 2-3 weeks (agency)
Under 20 minutes
Cost per video
$2,000-$8,000 (agency)
Included in your plan
Time to update
Reshoot and re-edit from scratch
Under 5 minutes
User activation impact
Single-digit doc completion
3x higher activation rates
Professional onboarding videos from what you already have
ngram transforms your help articles, screen recordings, or product docs into onboarding videos that drive activation and reduce support load.
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Start from a screen recording
Record a quick walkthrough of any workflow. ngram cuts the dead air, adds smooth zooms on every click, overlays step labels and captions, and applies your branding. You review the storyboard, approve or tweak, and export a polished tutorial without touching a timeline.
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Or start from your help docs
Paste a knowledge base article, feature description, or product URL. ngram writes a video script, plans the visual sequence, and generates a complete walkthrough with screen captures, motion graphics, and AI voiceover. Your docs become videos in minutes.
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Either way, your users get clarity. Your support queue gets lighter. Your trial-to-paid numbers get better.
What changes when customer onboarding video take minutes
Users reach their first win faster
Video shows exactly what to do, removing the guesswork that kills activation. Users who watch an onboarding video are significantly more likely to complete setup and stick around past their first week.
Support tickets drop before they're filed
A 90-second walkthrough answers the questions users would have emailed about. Teams using video onboarding consistently report fewer repetitive how-do-I tickets in the first 30 days.
Every release, every video, still current
When your UI changes, update the video in minutes. No reshoot, no freelancer callback, no production cycle. Your onboarding content stays accurate as fast as your product ships.
Scale onboarding without scaling headcount
Video handles the repetitive explaining so your CS team focuses on strategic accounts. Onboard 5,000 users with the same quality and consistency you give to your first 50.
Raw recording → polished video in 3 steps
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Drop in your walkthrough or docs
30 secondsUpload a screen recording of any product workflow, or paste a help article URL. Mistakes, dead air, wrong clicks - all fine. ngram works with whatever you have.
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Review the AI-edited tutorial
2 minutesngram cuts dead air, adds smart zooms on clicks, overlays step labels and captions, and applies your branding. Review the storyboard and tweak anything before rendering.
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Publish and keep it current
instantExport your polished onboarding video in any format, embed it in-app, or share a link. When your product changes, update the video in under 5 minutes.
Built for customer onboarding video, specifically
Smart Zoom
New users see exactly where to click, every time
Automatic zoom on mouse clicks and key interactions during your walkthrough. New users never get lost in a full-screen recording because ngram highlights the exact button, menu, or field they need to find next.
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Callouts & Step Labels
Turn raw recordings into numbered instructions
ngram automatically adds step numbers, annotations, and visual callouts to your screen recording. Users follow along without pausing or squinting at tiny UI elements. Each step is clear, labeled, and impossible to miss.
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Auto-Cut
Your 8-minute ramble becomes a tight 2-minute walkthrough
Dead air, wrong clicks, and filler words disappear automatically. You record once, mistakes and all, and ngram trims it into a focused tutorial that respects your users' time and attention.
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Auto Captions
Onboarding works even on mute
Accurate, styled captions generated in seconds. Users embedded in your app, sitting in an open office, or watching on mobile can follow every step without turning on sound. Perfect for in-app embeds and help centers.
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Brand Kit
Every onboarding video looks unmistakably yours
Your logo, colors, and fonts applied automatically to every video. Whether your CS team, product team, or marketing creates the walkthrough, it matches your brand and builds trust from the first interaction.
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“But will it work for my situation?”
Still have questions?
The old way vs. the ngram way
Text Documentation | Freelancer / Agency | ngram | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to create | Hours of writing + screenshots | 2-3 weeks | Under 20 minutes |
| Cost | Staff time only | $2,000-$8,000 per video | Included in plan |
| User engagement | Low (few read past intro) | High (if kept current) | High (always current) |
| Time to update | Re-write + re-screenshot | Days + revision fees | Under 5 minutes |
| Scalability | Manual for each segment | Expensive per variant | Minutes per variant |
Ready?
Stop losing users in
week one
Turn your help docs into onboarding videos that drive activation. Cut support tickets. Keep users past the danger zone. Your first video takes 20 minutes.
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