All three turn "we hired someone, now do these twelve things" into a tracked plan. Tango and Trainual are dedicated onboarding products: Tango builds step-by-step guides with screenshots, Trainual documents processes and trains people through them. Ours is a local MCP server that applies a role template to a hire, tracks which tasks are done and which are overdue, and reports progress per hire. The dedicated products excel at authoring and delivering training content; ours is a checklist ledger with no account and no network call.
| Fact | Ours | Tango | Trainual |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it runs | Onboarding plans per hire, task completion, one-hire or cohort template apply, progress and overdue views | Step-by-step how-to guides captured as you work, organized for onboarding playbooks | Documented processes and role training with assigned subjects and completion tracking |
| Templates | Role templates applied to one hire free; applying to a whole cohort at once is Pro | Guide/playbook templates inside its library | Role and process templates with assignments |
| Progress / overdue | onboarding_progress and onboarding_overdue straight from the ledger, done/skipped split included | Guide completion viewed in the product | Completion tracked per assigned subject |
| Network | No network. Local files under your data directory | Cloud; browser extension and web app | Cloud |
| Install/entry path | One-click onboarding.mcpb bundle or a hosted URL from /mcp/connect. No account, no key | Cloud sign-up; free plan available | Cloud sign-up; pricing is quote-only (figures removed from its site) |
| Price | Every tool free for one hire at a time; Pro $19 once for cohort applies | Free plan; Pro $15/user/mo annual per its own listings | Quote-only; no published rates |
| Licence | MIT | Proprietary | Proprietary |
Pick them when onboarding is content: you want click-by-click guides with screenshots (Tango's capture-as-you-work is the fastest way to produce them) or a searchable process manual new hires study and complete (Trainual's model). Tango has a free plan and a Pro tier at $15 per user per month annual; Trainual moved to quote-only pricing.
Pick ours when onboarding is a checklist you must actually run: who has the plan, which tasks are done, what is overdue. Every tool is free for one hire at a time, so a founder onboarding their first employee pays nothing, and the $19 once Pro is only for stamping the same role template onto twenty hires at once. The ledger is local files, the answers come back in chat, and nothing about your hiring lands in a vendor's cloud.
Ours, one click: download onboarding.mcpb from
the latest release and open it in Claude Desktop. No JSON, no terminal.
Or by URL, with nothing installed. /mcp/connect mints a free token and prints the ready line:
claude mcp add --transport http onboarding https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/onboarding/t/<token>The npm package is not published yet, so the line below returns a 404 today. It is here because it is what the config becomes the day that changes:
claude mcp add onboarding -- npx -y @theluckystrike/mcp-onboardingExact config file paths per client are on the setup pages.
Both track completion of their own content (guides or subjects). Ours tracks any checklist you define, per hire, with an explicit overdue view computed from due dates.
Tango has a free plan and Pro at $15/user/mo annual. Trainual publishes no rates (quote-only). Ours is free for one hire at a time across every tool; Pro $19 once adds only cohort template applies.
In ours, yes: onboarding_template_apply takes a comma-separated list of hire ids or names, which is the Pro path. Tango and Trainual assign content to people through their own user management.
Tango's plan figures and Trainual's quote-only model are summarized in published 2026 onboarding-software comparisons (effy.ai, minicoursegenerator.com); Trainual's own site no longer lists figures. All read on 2026-09-19.
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