The SOP documentation and training platform for HR teams

With Whale, HR teams get one central place to keep everything organized – from your employee handbook and onboarding checklists to training materials, procedures, and policies. 

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Helping thousands of HR teams systemize and scale

Elevate your employees and set your HR team up for success with Whale

Streamline new hire onboarding

Help new hires quickly get a feel for their roles and responsibilities, and share your employee handbook before they even walk in the door! This way, employees will feel prepared and ready to hit the ground running from day one.

Craft automated learning flows

Create training flows with automated learning assignments and quizzes for each role. Monitor employee performance and easily identify areas for further training.

A flowchart titled "Sales Training Flow" depicts three steps: trigger sales training flow, assign sales process training, and wait for 1 day. A highlighted trigger is set to add all users to the sales reps group, enhancing SOPs for streamlined employee training.

Standardize your HR operations

Simplify and standardize your HR operations by having one central spot to store, update, and share clear, consistent procedures and checklists across the team.

Features

Simple yet powerful tools for HR teams

Org Chart

Create a visual representation of your team, employees and their training badges

AI Quizzes

Assess your employee’s understanding and knowledge retention

Training Flows

Automate the learning journey of your employees per role, team and responsibilities

Checklist

Create easy-to-follow checklists that guide your employees step-by-step through tasks

Features that get this done

Step Recorder

Record once. Get a finished SOP.

Step Recorder captures every click as you work. You get a video of the process, annotated screenshots, and a written step-by-step guide. Teams document 84% faster with Step Recorder.

AI Writing Assistant

Draft a full SOP in seconds, not an afternoon

Give Alice, Whale’s AI assistant, a short prompt. Get back a structured SOP draft, ready to review, refine, and publish.

PDF and Word Import

Turn years of PDFs and Word docs into structured SOPs

Upload your existing Word files, PDFs, and PowerPoints. Alice, Whale’s AI assistant, parses each document and returns a structured SOP with headings, sections, and steps intact.

Training Flows

Build the onboarding path once. Assign it to every new hire.

Sequence playbooks, videos, and quizzes into a structured training path. Assign by role or group, track completion, and let Alice, Whale’s AI assistant, answer questions along the way.

Read Assignments

Assign the exact card, playbook, or guide. See who has read it.

Send any card, playbook, or guide to a person, a role, or a user group with a due date. Whale delivers it to their inbox, nudges on the due date, and tracks completion per step in a live dashboard.

Expert review intervals

Name the expert. Set the review cycle. SOPs stay current on their own.

Assign a subject-matter expert as the owner of every card or playbook and set a review date. When the date arrives, Whale creates a review assignment for the right person so processes never quietly rot.

The leading standard operating procedure software for HR teams

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The people have spoken

And they love Whale! With an average score of 4.8 out of 5, Whale consistently scores high for ease of use, support and overall functionalities.

We’ve been surprised at just how easy it’s been to set up. We were able to just take our existing SOPs and reformat them within the Whale environment. And the workspace was easily customisable so it took no time at all.

Rob Townsend, Quality Assurance Manager

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Whale is incredibly easy to use but provides very rich functionality that is really critical to us as we build our operations manual from the ground up including the ability to assign owners and review dates.

Barbara Pfeiffer, CEO​

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Before Whale, we were storing most of our documents in Google Drive, and over time it gets very messy. Whale gave us a really nice, streamlined place to put all of our documents in a very organized way, and we definitely needed that!

Emily Marson, Marketing Coordinator

SkyPort IT 

Elevate your employees across HR roles

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 HR Manager

Use this template to provide clarity, consistency, and structure in managing human resources within your organization.

✍️ L&D Manager

A simple guide to identify, document and share your company’s core processes

👶 HR Generalist

Use the 30-60-90 day template to map out the first 90 days of a new job or position

Frequently asked questions

Use Whale to centralize your HR procedures as SOPs, importing your existing handbooks and PDFs and letting Alice organize them. Build training flows per role so onboarding and compliance reading assign themselves, and add quizzes to confirm understanding. Checklists and eSignature give you a record of who followed which process, and review cycles keep policies current.

Import your existing handbooks, policies and PDFs, and Alice, Whale’s AI assistant, organizes and structures them into SOPs. For the processes that were never written down, Step Recorder captures the workflow as you click through it once and turns it into a documented procedure.

Yes. Training Flows assign the right documents per role and team automatically, and AI Quizzes test understanding rather than just completion. The Org Chart shows each employee’s training badges, so you can see who has finished what before their first day in the role.

Every SOP has an owner, an approval status and a version history, and expert review cycles bring each document back to its owner on a schedule. Whale is built for operational process documentation specifically, which is why ownership, review and change tracking are core to it rather than add-ons.

No. Most teams run Whale alongside their HRIS and their general wiki, and use Whale for the process documentation and training layer. You can start on the free plan with up to 10 members and move to a paid plan when you need unlimited members.