A chatbot requires the new hire to know what to ask.
Reactive question-answering has a hidden requirement: you have to already know the shape of what you don't know. A new hire in their first week doesn't. They don't know that the objection-handling doc exists, or that there's a reason the team stopped using a certain playbook - so they never ask.
A produced artifact is complete on day one.
A chat window is empty until someone types into it. A Firstweek briefing arrives finished - company context, team context, role context, and the decisions that shaped where things stand, assembled before the new hire ever has to think of a question.
The artifact comes first. Follow-up is secondary, not the interface.
Once a new hire has the briefing, they can ask follow-up questions grounded in it - but that starts from a finished document, not a blank prompt box. The category difference is what happens before the first question gets typed, not whether a question box exists at all.
A chatbot answers questions you think to ask. Firstweek tells you what you didn't know to ask about in the first place - as a complete, produced document, not an empty search box.
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