Show HN: What leaves your company when an employee quits

[kevinbaur]

When someone leaves, companies think they lose a person. In reality, they lose context, decisions, shortcuts, and half-documented knowledge that no one notices until things break.

I built SkillPass after watching the same pattern repeat: “handover docs” that look fine but don’t answer the questions successors actually have.

SkillPass runs a single, guided session with the departing employee and turns their implicit, role-specific knowledge into a structured handover report, without meetings, training, or setup.

Free first handover, GDPR-compliant, no tracking, and nothing is used to train AI.

[kevinbaur]

Hey, I am Kevin the founder of SkillPass.

When I changed roles a few months ago I noticed something interesting. My successor onboarded in a fraction of the time it took me, simply because I was still around to explain everything. But during that offboarding I also realised how hard it actually is to pass on knowledge. I kept thinking, “Where do I even start?” and I was constantly afraid of forgetting important details. That is exactly what I wanted SkillPass to fix. A tool that gives people a clear thread to follow and asks the right questions so they do not have to figure everything out on their own.

Happy to answer any question! Kevin

[properbrew]

I really like this and I can also see it being useful for one-off "state of play" of the environment, just thinking if the key resources from different teams all completed one of these how useful it would be for the rest of the company as well.

I had a question around the AI you're using, are you sending this off to OpenAI or doing this all locally?

[kevinbaur]

Hi and thanks for the feedback, this is exactly the kind of “state of play” snapshot we had in mind initially. We also think there’s a lot of potential if key people from different teams each create one of these and make it available across the company.

Regarding the AI: at the moment SkillPass Pro is still using OpenAI, mainly because we’re in very early development and want to iterate quickly. Longer term, the plan is to move toward self-hosting and reduce external dependencies.

According to OpenAI’s API policies, data sent via the API is not used to train their models. The data is only retained for a short period and solely for service operation and abuse monitoring purposes, after which it is deleted. This was an important consideration for us when choosing this setup for the early stage.

Thanks again, Kevin