AI Programs Die in Week Two: Home, Activation, and the First Mission That Sticks

The real-world problem

Week one: executive kickoff, fifty accounts created. Week two: six logins. Week four: the innovation manager manually runs demos while everyone else forgot the URL.

Agents fail adoption tests not because models regressed, but because users landed in empty shells with no guided path from sign-in to first trustworthy outcome.

Enterprises repeat this with every AI wave—Copilot licenses unused, chat enterprise contracts underutilized—because activation is treated as training decks instead of product UX.

What Home is designed to do

After auth, Axionomy lands users on Home: activation checklist, mode shortcuts (Think, Run, Watch, Produce), recent deliverables, CRM snapshot, and the next recommended step—not a blank sidebar.

Setup integration prompts live in the journey, not only in documentation. The goal is time-to-first-watched-mission, not time-to-first-login.

What activation fixes

Clear sequencing converts curiosity into habit: connect Google → run read-only mission → watch it live → save to Workspace → promote to Workbench or recurring Run.

Innovation leaders can measure progress by activation milestones instead of vanity login counts.

Real scenario: regional innovation hub onboarding cohorts

Cohorts of SMEs join quarterly. Home gives each cohort the same next step on day one; program managers compare activation completion instead of guessing who needs help.

Real scenario: enterprise center of excellence

CoE publishes internal standard: no team is "agent-enabled" until Home checklist hits Watch your first mission. Observatory attendance becomes cultural proof, not optional nerd view.

Organic indexing note

Searches for AI agent adoption, innovation program activation, and agent harness onboarding are high-intent. Feature stories indexed on axionomy.xyz complement /docs/getting-started with narrative leaders can forward to sponsors.

Axionomy solution framing

The platform sells a harness loop, but Home sells momentum. Without momentum, Marita AI and Autonomous Agent features remain shelfware.

Leader action items

Set a 14-day activation OKR: percent of invited users completing first watched mission. Review Home weekly in standup. Celebrate Workspace artifacts, not model trivia.

Sign up at axionomy.xyz/auth?mode=signup, finish Setup, complete one activation step per day until Watch is checked off.

Cross-links: Marita AI and Run feature stories on /blog; technical steps on /docs/getting-started.