Akur8
Because successful onboarding lays the foundations for an engaged collaboration, Akur8 designed an onboarding experience with Wobee that mirrors its culture: human, structured and internationally minded.
❌ Avant Wobee
- Manual pre-boarding: a simple email exchange, with no personalised journey or early access to resources.
- Scattered tools: key information was spread across Slack and Google Drive, hard to find and keep up to date.
- Zero automation: every HR process was handled manually, case by case.
- Inconsistent experience: each manager built their own onboarding journey, with variable welcome quality.
✅ Avec Wobee
- Tailor-made onboarding journeys, designed in collaboration with several stakeholders to reflect Akur8's culture.
- A pre-onboarding platform letting new talents — including those from Arius — discover the company before their first day.
- Automated offboarding, ensuring a smooth, professional exit without excessive admin overhead.
- Centralised documentation in an internal hub personalised by role (managers, new joiners, etc.)
Spotlight on Akur8
Founded in 2019, Akur8 develops an innovative SaaS solution dedicated to pricing modelling for insurers. By combining artificial intelligence and algorithmic transparency, Akur8 enables actuarial teams to build high-performing pricing models faster, while ensuring auditability.
A pioneer in how it approaches the employee experience, Akur8 puts people at the heart of its growth strategy, betting on close support for employees and innovative, personalised, digital employee journeys.
A few key figures:
- 180+ employees
- Across 8 offices around the world
- +59% headcount growth in 2024
Why Akur8 chose Wobee
Since its creation in 2019, Akur8 has experienced sustained growth. With more than 180 employees across 8 offices worldwide and an international user base, the insurtech startup has established itself as a key player in automated insurance pricing modelling.
This momentum accelerated in 2024 with a $120 million fundraise and the strategic acquisition of Arius (now Akur8 Reserving). A key turning point for Akur8, which now had to structure its HR processes to support its hyper-growth while successfully integrating an external team and a new product.
Two goals at the heart of the project:
Structure HR processes to gain efficiency
In a context of strong growth, with continuous onboarding of new talent around the world, Akur8 needed a solution to make HR teams' day-to-day easier and streamline all employee journeys. With Wobee, the HR team was able to:
- Centralise all onboarding and offboarding tasks on a single platform
- Get a clear, shared overview of ongoing processes (follow-up, statuses, deadlines)
- Adapt journeys to the various contract types (permanent, fixed-term, interns, new hires from acquisitions)
- Create on-brand onboarding journeys aligned with the Akur8 culture
- Embed onboarding as an essential building block of the recruitment process, from the moment the offer is made
Create an employee experience worthy of their international ambition
At Akur8, the employee experience is not optional — it is a strategic lever. The goal: strengthen the sense of belonging and offer immersive, engaging onboarding. With Wobee, they were able to:
- Give new hires the means to follow their own journey autonomously, step by step
- Provide access to the company culture even before day one through the pre-onboarding platform
- Involve existing team members (managers, peers, HR) in the journeys to create lively, human experiences
- Extend the approach beyond onboarding through transverse projects (fresh-eyes reports, follow-up interviews, evolving documentation)
At Akur8, the employee experience is at the heart of our culture, and Wobee helps us make it even more personalised, human and engaging. The platform has become essential to structure our journeys (onboarding, offboarding, etc.) and to centralise the distribution of most of our internal content.
Juliette Ledoux
Employee Experience Director
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