Engagement Leadership · Commercial wing

Resource Onboarding & KT Tracker

SIMULATEDVerified Jul 2, 2026

A resource is a cost from day one and an asset from day forty. Access requests — not training — are the longest pole; compress them and the carrying cost falls. Then guard the other end: a departing senior's knowledge.

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Avg time-to-productive

40 d

Access + ramp

Blocked on access

2/6

Access > 14 days

Ramp carrying cost

$227k

Cost before productive

Compression saves

$24k

Pre-provision access

30 / 60 / 90 ramp · access = the longest pole

ML Engineer

Offshore

access 18d + ramp 35d → productive day 46

blocked

Data Engineer

Onshore

access 8d + ramp 35d → productive day 36

36d

Delivery PM

Onshore

access 4d + ramp 35d → productive day 35

35d

QA / Eval

Offshore

access 21d + ramp 35d → productive day 49

blocked

MLOps

Onshore

access 12d + ramp 35d → productive day 40

40d

Domain SME

Onshore

access 6d + ramp 35d → productive day 35

35d

Access (norm) Access (blocked) Ramp

Access is the pole nobody manages

Two offshore hires can't touch the work for three weeks — not because of training, but because credentials aren't provisioned. Pre-provisioning access before day one saves $24k in ramp carrying cost and pulls productivity forward two weeks.

Steering-committee takeaway: A resource is a cost from day one and an asset from day forty. Onboarding compression is the cheapest margin lever nobody manages.

Resume echo — resource-lead reality of the 31-resource AMEX portfolio; onshore/offshore mobilization.

How this is built

Time-to-productive = ramp (35d) + access beyond a 7-day norm; blocked if access > 14 days. Carrying cost = time-to-productive × loaded day rate (onshore $1,100 · offshore $700). Pre-provisioning caps access at 5 days.

KT view scores each knowledge area by bus-factor; scheduling KT adds a backup (+1). Single point of failure = bus-factor < 2. Stack: Next.js (static) + shared design system; client-side.

Limitations: ramp and rates are illustrative; real onboarding varies by role and client security posture. It exposes the access bottleneck and the KT risk, not a full mobilization plan.