StartUAE 🇦🇪

Onboarding for HR & expats in the UAE

B2B (primary): For HR and universities — give every new hire a personalized onboarding plan via one link; see progress in one dashboard (onboarding-as-a-service).
B2C: For expats — get your free personalized plan (dependency-aware timeline, document checklist, risk alerts).

StartUAE helps people navigate their first 30–90 days in the UAE — Emirates ID, medical, banking, housing — without dead-ends or missed dependencies.

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🚨 Problem

Most UAE residents are expats, and onboarding is:

• fragmented across multiple portals (ICP, RTA, banks, employers)
• highly dependent on order and prerequisites
• stressful, time-sensitive, and error-prone

Missing one step or doing it in the wrong order can cause:

• weeks of delays
• repeated appointments
• extra costs
• missed work or school deadlines

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💡 Solution

StartUAE acts as an agentic onboarding OS that:

• creates a personalized dependency graph (not a generic checklist)
• tells users what to do next and what not to do yet
• flags risks and hidden blockers early
• adapts the plan when delays or changes happen

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🧠 How It Works

Entry points

• Homepage (/): Choose “For HR & universities” or “I’m moving to the UAE”.
• HR flow: Register company → get invite link → share with new hires. Dashboard shows onboarding status (demo table; real data with backend).
• Expat flow: Open link from employer or go to “Get my free plan” → 7-question intake → personalized timeline, task details, document vault.

User Intake (7 questions)

• Emirate, visa type, sponsor, work start date, family, driving, banking. Optional nationality for localized tips.

Output

• Step-by-step onboarding timeline with dependencies (blocked steps until prerequisites done).
• Risk warnings (e.g. EID may not be ready before start date).
• Task detail view and document checklist.

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✨ Key Features

• Personalized onboarding dependency graph
• “Next best action” recommendations
• Smart document checklist & notes
• Deadline and risk warnings
• Multilingual explanations (planned)
• Family onboarding support (planned)
• Employer / landlord checklist (planned)

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🏗 MVP Scope

• Landing: Dual entry (HR vs expat).
• Employer: Sign-up (name + email), invite link, dashboard with mock “Onboarding status” table.
• Join flow: /join/[slug] stores company ref and sends user to intake.
• Expat: Onboarding questionnaire, dependency-aware timeline, task detail, document vault.
• Profile and progress in localStorage; employer data in localStorage (backend needed for real HR tracking).

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💰 Monetization

B2C

• Free: onboarding plan + checklist
• Paid: document validation, risk alerts, concierge escalation

B2B (Primary)

• HR onboarding tool for companies hiring expats
• Per-employee or SaaS pricing
• Status tracking and compliance visibility

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🔐 Privacy & Disclaimer

StartUAE is not a government authority or legal service.
It assists users by organizing official information and workflows.

Sensitive documents are handled securely with minimal storage and encryption.

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📌 Status

🚧 Early development / MVP stage
Built for rapid iteration and extensibility.

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🚀 Run the app

npm install
npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000.

Demo flow

1. Home (/) — Choose “For HR & universities” or “I’m moving to the UAE”.
2. HR: /employer — Enter company name + email → get invite link and dashboard with mock status table. Copy link and open in another tab → /join/acme-corp → redirects to intake.
3. Expat intake (/onboard) — 7 questions. After submit → plan. If they came via invite link, plan shows “Invited by your employer”.
4. Timeline (/plan) — Dependency-aware tasks, risk banner, links to task detail and documents.
5. Task detail (/task/[id]) — Full step info; blocked state if prerequisites missing.
6. Documents (/documents) — Required now / coming up.

Data is in localStorage (no backend yet).

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