Onboarding, probation, performance review, offboarding — every business runs its own version of these stages, usually tracked in someone's memory or a shared spreadsheet. ZenSkayl Lifecycle turns them into a configurable pipeline: define the stages an employee moves through, attach a checklist of tasks to each one, and the moment someone enters that stage, every task is generated automatically — assigned to the right person, with a due date already calculated.
Build your own ordered, color-coded stages — "New Hire," "90-Day Review," "Exit," or whatever your process actually looks like. Mark one stage as the default so every new hire starts in the right place automatically.
Attach a reusable checklist to any stage — an Onboarding checklist covering IT setup, paperwork, and orientation, or an Exit checklist for access revocation and asset return. Build it once, reuse it for every employee who reaches that stage.
Every task in a checklist carries a due-date offset (days from the stage start), a priority — Low, Medium, High, or Urgent — and an assignee: the employee themselves, their manager, someone up the reporting chain, a specific person, or an external email.
The moment an employee enters a stage, a run is created, anchored to a start date. Every task template on that stage's checklist generates a real task with its due date already calculated — no one has to remember to kick it off.
Every generated task moves through Pending → In Progress → Completed (or Skipped), so managers and HR can see exactly where every employee stands in onboarding, offboarding, or any custom process you've built.
With the AI Agent module active, Lifecycle can flag overdue tasks and suggest checklist items for a new stage. Without it, every workflow runs exactly as you built it — either way, a person always assigns and completes the work, never the AI.
Most onboarding tools give you a single, fixed checklist. Real HR processes aren't one checklist — they're a sequence of stages, each with its own tasks, deadlines, and owners, and employees move through different ones depending on where they are in their time with you.
Lifecycle models that directly. Stages are yours to define. Checklist templates attach real, repeatable task lists to each one. Task templates carry the due-date offset, priority, and assignee logic that turns a static list into something that actually runs itself. And every time an employee enters a stage, those templates generate a live lifecycle run with real tasks and real due dates — not a copy-paste job someone has to redo for every hire.
In short: it turns one-off onboarding and offboarding checklists into a repeatable, automated workflow engine that assigns the right task to the right person at the right time, for every stage transition an employee goes through.
"A great first day shouldn't depend on someone remembering to order a laptop. A clean exit shouldn't depend on someone remembering to revoke access."
— ZenSkayl Product Team