diff --git a/frontend/web/components/pages/onboarding/bootstrap/__tests__/onboardingProject.test.ts b/frontend/web/components/pages/onboarding/bootstrap/__tests__/onboardingProject.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..62cb7dc89817
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/web/components/pages/onboarding/bootstrap/__tests__/onboardingProject.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+import { ProjectSummary } from 'common/types/responses'
+import { newestProject } from 'components/pages/onboarding/bootstrap/onboardingProject'
+
+const project = (id: number): ProjectSummary => ({ id } as ProjectSummary)
+
+describe('newestProject', () => {
+  it('takes the project the user just created, not the first returned', () => {
+    const created = project(9)
+    expect(newestProject([project(2), created, project(5)])).toBe(created)
+  })
+
+  it('takes the only project there is', () => {
+    const only = project(3)
+    expect(newestProject([only])).toBe(only)
+  })
+
+  it('finds nothing in an organisation with no projects', () => {
+    expect(newestProject([])).toBeUndefined()
+  })
+})
diff --git a/frontend/web/components/pages/onboarding/bootstrap/bootstrapOnboarding.ts b/frontend/web/components/pages/onboarding/bootstrap/bootstrapOnboarding.ts
index b5bf917e2cc2..74595fe1d518 100644
--- a/frontend/web/components/pages/onboarding/bootstrap/bootstrapOnboarding.ts
+++ b/frontend/web/components/pages/onboarding/bootstrap/bootstrapOnboarding.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import {
   findOnboardingTag,
   shouldSeedDemoFlag,
 } from './demoFlag'
+import { newestProject } from './onboardingProject'
 import { SmartDefaults } from 'components/pages/onboarding/hooks/useSmartDefaults'
 import { createOrganisationViaAccountStore } from './createOrganisationViaAccountStore'
 import API from 'project/api'
@@ -81,7 +82,7 @@ async function ensureProject(
   const projects = await store
     .dispatch(projectService.endpoints.getProjects.initiate({ organisationId }))
     .unwrap()
-  const existing = projects?.[0]
+  const existing = newestProject(projects ?? [])
   if (existing) {
     return existing
   }
diff --git a/frontend/web/components/pages/onboarding/bootstrap/onboardingProject.ts b/frontend/web/components/pages/onboarding/bootstrap/onboardingProject.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c96089fa7229
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/web/components/pages/onboarding/bootstrap/onboardingProject.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+import { ProjectSummary } from 'common/types/responses'
+
+// The project the user just made: creating one and clicking Getting Started is
+// how you run onboarding again. The list comes back in no useful order, so go
+// by id rather than position.
+export const newestProject = (
+  projects: ProjectSummary[],
+): ProjectSummary | undefined =>
+  projects.reduce<ProjectSummary | undefined>(
+    (newest, project) => (!newest || project.id > newest.id ? project : newest),
+    undefined,
+  )