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HR Tech · Employee Onboarding

How Onboardly captured the comparison searches its rivals ignored in 7 months

Overview

The company & the goal

Onboardly is an employee-onboarding platform for fast-scaling HR teams. Their category is decision-heavy: buyers spend weeks comparing tools before booking a demo — yet Onboardly was invisible for the "best onboarding software" and "X vs Y" searches driving those decisions.

The goal was to own the bottom of the funnel: rank for the comparison and alternative queries where buyers are closest to choosing, and turn that traffic into qualified demo requests.

Our approach

The strategy we ran

1

Intent & competitor gap audit

We mapped every comparison, alternative, and "best-of" query in the category and scored where competitors were weak or absent.

2

Bottom-of-funnel content system

We built comparison hubs, alternative pages, and use-case guides engineered to convert buyers who were already evaluating tools.

3

Proof & trust layer

We wove real customer outcomes, integrations, and security detail into the pages to answer the objections that stall HR buyers.

4

Conversion optimization

We rebuilt demo paths around comparison intent — side-by-side tables, clearer differentiation, and a faster route to booking.

The results

What the numbers did

By owning the comparison layer, Onboardly turned high-intent search into its most efficient demo channel — at a materially lower cost than paid.

Monthly organic sessions
First 7 months of the engagement
+176%
vs. baseline
M1M3M5M7M9
Blended CAC
Cost to acquire a customer
Before$520
After Angleout$369
↓ 29% lower cost per customer
Demo requests / month
Qualified, organic-sourced
Before33
After Angleout102
↑ 3.1× more demo requests
Page-1 keywords won
Cumulative, by month
120
M1M2M4M6M8M9

They found the searches our whole category was sleeping on. Comparison content is now our most reliable source of demos — and it keeps compounding.

Devan Rao
Head of Growth, Onboardly
Timeline

How it unfolded

M1

Gap analysis

Comparison and alternative queries mapped; the highest-intent, lowest-competition targets prioritised.

M2

Hubs live

First comparison hubs and alternative pages published and indexing.

M5

Intent converts

Comparison pages hit page one; organic demo requests begin to climb sharply.

M7

Channel matures

Organic demos up 3.1× with CAC down 29% and 120 page-1 keywords won.

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