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Your first 4 wins to document smarter

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šŸŽ‰ Your First 4 Wins with Whale

Welcome to Whale! šŸŽŠ Whether you’re here to document processes, onboard faster, or scale your team’s knowledge—you’re in the right place. To help you hit the ground running, here are your first 4 wins to unlock in Whale.

These steps will get you familiar with Whale’s core features and show you just how easy it is to create, capture, and access knowledge.


šŸŽ„ 1. Record Your First Guide

You can record your screen starting from the Whale platform. Capture processes and automatically turn them into step-by-step guides.

šŸ“„ Get recording!

Once recorded you will be able to give your process a title, a spot in Whale and start saving time.

This is one of the fastest ways to turn real work into real documentation. Read the full article here.

You win? Time, time and time. Turn your captured processes into guides in seconds


🧱 2. Let Alice AI create your documentation

Use our conversational AI agent, Alice, to create your documentation. Ask them anything from ā€œDraft a step-by-step guide on how to set up a Zoom webinar.ā€ to "Create a guide to follow the safety rules in a manufacturing warehouse.".
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Jump in to ask changes to the drafts and have an optimized and clear process ready-to-use in under 2 minutes.

šŸ‘£ How to do it:

  1. Simply ask Alice something like:

    • ā€œCreate an SOP for handling customer refund requests.ā€

    • ā€œDraft a step-by-step guide on how to set up a Zoom webinar.ā€

    • "Create a guide to follow the safety rules in a manufacturing warehouse."

    • "Write an SOP on how to prep a patient for a dental check up."

  2. Alice will provide a first draft that you can confirm or edit if needed.

  3. Select the right spot in your workspace and you're good to go!

This is one of the easiest ways to turn ideas into policies. Read the full article here.

You win? A super easy-to-way that helps you document any process or policy


šŸ¤– 3. Ask Alice a Question on Your Guide

Once your guide is live, test out Alice, Whale’s built-in AI assistant. Alice helps users find answers by reading and summarizing your documentation.

šŸ‘£ To use Alice:

  • Open your published guide

  • Click the ā€œAsk Aliceā€ button

  • Ask a natural-language question like:

    ā€œHow do I reset a user password?ā€

  • Alice will find the relevant section or summarize the steps

This helps your team learn how to find answers fast—without digging.

You win? Way less frustration because you find what you need when you need it with Alice.


šŸ 4. Share Your Guide With a Teammate

Knowledge is better when shared. Send your new guide to a teammate, assign it as training, or simply post the link in Slack.

šŸ‘£ Use the Share or Assign option from the guide view.

Tag someone to read or complete it. Done!

  1. Navigate to your guide

  2. Click "Share" on the top right corner

  3. Select your team member, a group or yourself

  4. Assign!

This is your first step in building a habit of internal documentation—and showing others how easy it is to get involved. Read the full how to guide here.

You win? Time and time again. Colleagues can follow a process without you explaining it over and over, individually.


šŸ’” Bonus Win: Celebrate!

You’ve just created your first piece of living knowledge inside Whale. Keep going, and you’ll quickly turn your team’s know-how into a system that scales.


šŸš€ What’s Next?

  • Organize guides into Playbooks

  • Set review cycles to keep content fresh

  • Invite your team and assign training

  • Explore Analytics to see what’s being read

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