# Stop storing OKRs. Start running them. > OKRGoal runs your organisation's OKRs, from the annual plan to the quarterly close. An AI Coach checks every objective as you write it, and an AI Champion keeps the weekly rhythm in Slack, Teams and WhatsApp. From OKR Institute, built on open source OpenOKR. Free to start. This is the Markdown version of https://okrgoal.com/ From [OKR Institute](https://okrinstitute.org/) · Built on open source OKRGoal is where your organisation's OKRs live and run, with the method built in. The OKR Coach checks every objective as you write it. The OKR Champion keeps the weekly rhythm in Slack, Teams, WhatsApp and email. It runs on OpenOKR, which is open source, so you can also host it yourself, free. [Start free](https://app.okrgoal.com/sign-up) · [Try the live demo](https://demo.okrgoal.com/) Every feature on every plan. No credit card. ``` git clone https://github.com/open-okr/open-okr && cd open-okr/deploy/docker && ./openokr up ``` [Or self-host OpenOKR in about half an hour](https://okrgoal.com/open-source) - **26** quality checks on your drafts and your cycle - **8** guided phases, from annual plan to quarterly close - **7** places it reaches you, from Slack to your own AI agent - **0** features behind a paywall [Star on GitHub](https://github.com/open-okr/open-okr) Built by OKR Institute · Coaching organisations through OKRs since 2017 · 1,000+ organisations · 50+ countries Built on published sources: Doerr · Grove · Wodtke · Castro · Lamorte · Cagan · Google's OKR playbook *The problem* ## OKRs rarely fail in January. They fail in week six. Somebody writes the objectives in a spreadsheet. Nobody checks in by March. The quarterly review is a meeting where everyone agrees things went reasonably well. The method that makes OKRs work has been understood for twenty years. It just never lived in the software. ### Spreadsheets No rhythm, no owner, no quality bar. Nobody is ever told anything. ### OKR trackers A database with a progress bar. They store your objectives faithfully, then wait to be visited. ### Consultants The method is real. Then it walks out of the door with the consultant, and nothing keeps it going on a wet Tuesday in week six. OKRGoal fixes this two ways at once. **The method is in the product. And the product is active.** *The method* ## Rules that run, not a template. The whole OKR method ships as rules that run on your real OKRs: a guided eight-phase cycle, twenty-six quality checks, eighteen of which judge every line as you type, six publish gates, an alignment score that names its gaps, and a diagnostic at the close. It is all written down in one public document, and a test fails our build when the code and the document disagree. - **A guided cycle.** Eight phases. It knows what is missing and how many weeks you have left. - **Quality as you write.** Twenty-six checks, each with a coaching prompt. The commonest mistakes also show a weak and a strong version side by side. - **Publish gates.** Owners named, key results passing, alignment stated, capacity checked. - **Alignment that means something.** Contribution, not copying. A score that names every gap. - **An honest close.** Was the miss a strategy problem or a rhythm problem? It tells you which is more likely. - **Your way of doing it.** Twenty-five settings and five profiles. Every quality check and publish gate can block, warn or be off. [See the method](https://okrgoal.com/product/method) *The agents* ## Two teammates who never forget a check-in. Every workspace comes with two AI members. They have names and they show up in the feed. They start the conversation. You do not have to remember to ask. ### The OKR Coach guards quality Reviews every draft against the rules. With an AI provider connected, runs a nightly sweep for duplicated metrics and hidden dependencies. Speaks up when it matters: when the not-doing list is empty, when nothing was cut at the capacity check, when a goal says "on track" but one of its key results has not moved. ### The OKR Champion guards the rhythm Reminds the goal's champion before a check-in is due. Escalates, visibly, when it is late. Holds every blocker to the next check-in. Announces the weekly session, assembles the digest for the coordinator to post, keeps the streak, and drafts a recovery OKR when a KPI stays unhealthy. Every message cites the rule behind it. Open the rule. Disagree with it. That is the point. [Meet the agents](https://okrgoal.com/product/agents) *Where it reaches you* ## It comes to you. People do not open an OKR tool on a Thursday afternoon. So the Coach and the Champion go where people already are. Slack, Teams, WhatsApp and Telegram work both ways: the nudge goes out, a real check-in comes back. Email brings a link straight to the check-in. Browser · Email · Slack · Microsoft Teams · WhatsApp · Telegram · Claude · ChatGPT · Cursor A check-in typed into WhatsApp runs the same permission checks as a click in the browser. No chat app connected? Email and the browser cover everything. [See every integration](https://okrgoal.com/product/integrations) *The rhythm* ## The meeting runs itself. Your team does the thinking. - **Sunday:** **The reminder.** The Champion tells each goal's champion their check-in is due tomorrow, on the channel they chose. - **Monday morning:** **The inbox fills.** Everyone's To do list, under Updates, shows what they owe, overdue first. Most check-ins arrive from chat. - **Monday, 20 minutes:** **The session.** A private confidence round revealed together. What dropped. A next action for every low score. Commitments and wins. - **Monday afternoon:** **The digest.** Blockers, commitments and wins, written for you, posted to the team channel. The streak ticks up. - **A week later:** **The escalation.** One check-in is still missing. The reviewer has heard. Now the coordinator does. The champion can see every step. At most one nudge per subject per day, and five per person per week. Quiet hours in your own time zone. An escalation to someone else still gets through, because that is its job. A snooze never hides what you owe. [See the weekly and quarterly sessions](https://okrgoal.com/product/rhythm) *AI-native, never AI-dependent* ## Turn the AI off. It still coaches. Every rule, escalation, gate, score and diagnostic in OKRGoal is code, not a prompt, and so is every nudge but one. Switch the AI provider off and all of that still runs. That is why it fits regulated, air-gapped and AI-sceptical organisations that would turn away a product that depends on a model. ### Always on, because it is code - Twenty-six quality checks and six publish gates - Scores, confidence and health - Every escalation, and every nudge but one - The alignment score and its gaps - KPI bands and the recovery draft - The closing diagnostic ### Added when you connect an AI provider - Rewrites a failing objective to pass the rule it broke - Drafts an overdue check-in from where each key result stands - Finds duplicated metrics and hidden dependencies across teams - Drafts the digest, the minutes and the retrospective - Answers questions about your workspace, with citations - Puts all of it in plain language Proposes, you approve · Sees only what it is given · Hard cost cap · Quiet by design · Bring your own model · Local models, zero egress Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter, Ollama, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Your key, your bill, your choice. *Agent-native* ## Bring your own agent. Almost everything a person can do in OKRGoal, an agent can do, through one permission-checked contract. Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or your own agent. It signs in as you, through a consent screen, and works only within your permissions. Every call is audited. - "What do I owe this week?" - "Draft my check-in for the onboarding objective from what changed since Monday." - "Review this quarter's OKRs against the method and tell me the three weakest key results." In the product, one button copies a setup prompt you paste into your agent. No token to copy, and nothing secret in your clipboard. **Claude Code** ``` claude mcp add --transport http openokr https://app.okrgoal.com/api/mcp # Then run /mcp, choose openokr and sign in. ``` **Hermes Agent** ``` # Add OKRGoal to Hermes Agent as an MCP server: https://app.okrgoal.com/api/mcp # Then sign in through the consent screen. ``` **ChatGPT** ``` # Add OKRGoal to ChatGPT as a connector: https://app.okrgoal.com/api/mcp # Then sign in through the consent screen. ``` *Deploy* ## Same product. Your choice of where it runs. ### OKRGoal **We run it.** Sign up and start. Backups, upgrades and monitoring are ours. Your OKRs are yours. [Start free](https://app.okrgoal.com/sign-up) ### OpenOKR on one server **Free, on your own machine.** Docker Compose and a setup wizard. About half an hour. PostgreSQL is the only thing it needs. ``` ./openokr up ``` ### OpenOKR on Kubernetes **For universities and large organisations.** A Helm chart with your database, your single sign-on and your backups. ``` helm install openokr oci://ghcr.io/open-okr/charts/openokr ``` The same release everywhere. Export your whole workspace from one and import it into another, in either direction, whenever you like. *Who it is for* ## One product. Every seat at the table. **Team member** One place, or one chat message, that says what you owe this week and lets you do it in under a minute. **Goal champion** A composer that tells you why your key result is weak while you write it, and an overdue check-in drafted for you from where each key result stands. **Coordinator** A weekly session the product runs for you: confidence, blockers with owners, commitments, a digest, and a streak. **Executive** The whole company on one map, stale goals named in your weekly digest, escalations too if you join the ladder, and a close that names what to fix. **OKR lead** Cycles across the organisation, KPI driver trees with recovery OKRs, alignment health with named gaps, and everything exportable. **Admin** Single sign-on, directory sync, backups with tested restores, a tamper-evident audit log and hard AI cost caps. *Open source* ## Built in the open. Argue with the rules. OKRGoal runs on OpenOKR, which is open source under AGPL-3.0. The method is a public document, METHOD.md, with every rule, threshold and session agenda the product enforces and the published source each one rests on. If you think a rule is wrong, open an issue. If you are right, the product changes. - [**Read METHOD.md** The whole method in one document.](https://github.com/open-okr/open-okr/blob/main/docs/specification/METHOD.md) - [**Star on GitHub** Follow every release.](https://github.com/open-okr/open-okr) - [**Contribute** The interesting problems here are method, coaching and agents, not forms.](https://okrgoal.com/community) ## Questions Still deciding? [Talk to us](https://okrgoal.com/contact), or open the [live demo](https://demo.okrgoal.com/) and look around. ### What is OKRGoal? The OKR platform your organisation runs its OKRs on, from OKR Institute. It holds your objectives, key results and KPIs, guides the planning cycle, checks every objective and key result as you write it, runs the weekly check-in and the quarterly review, and comes with two AI teammates, the OKR Coach and the OKR Champion, that guard quality and keep the rhythm. ### Is it a course, or a way to learn OKRs? No. OKRGoal is where your teams write, check in on and review their real OKRs. People do pick up the method along the way, because the Coach explains every rule it applies. If you want to learn OKRs before you start, OKR Institute runs courses and certification, separately from the product. ### Who is behind it, and how do OKRGoal and OpenOKR relate? OKR Institute, which has coached OKR rollouts since 2017. It built OKRGoal and OpenOKR on what it learned running its OKR platform, okri.io, and coaching organisations through OKRs. OpenOKR is the open source product, under AGPL-3.0. OKRGoal is OpenOKR in the cloud, run for you. It is the same release either way. ### Is it really free? Self-hosted OpenOKR is free, with every feature and no limit on people. OKRGoal has a free plan, and paid plans that differ in AI credits, seats and support. Never in features. ### Do I need to use AI? No. Every rule, escalation, score and diagnostic works with AI switched off, and every nudge except the one that needs a model to judge meaning. AI adds drafting, rewriting and plain-language summaries. It never makes a decision. ### Will the agents change our OKRs without asking? Not by default. An agent proposes a change and a person approves it. You can run an agent in sandbox mode, where it commits nothing, or give one narrow agent direct writes if you trust it. ### We do OKRs our own way. Will it fight us? It has twenty-five practice settings and five starting profiles, including Google-style and Radical Focus. Every quality check and publish gate can block, warn or be off. By default, only structural problems block publishing. Everything else coaches. ### Can we move from a spreadsheet or another tool? Yes. Upload a CSV or Excel file of goals, key results, KPIs, initiatives or tasks. You confirm the column mapping, see a dry run, then import. ### Where is our data? On your own servers if you self-host, offline if you need it. In the cloud, in the region we state, and nobody at OKR Institute can open your workspace through the product unless a workspace administrator grants a time-limited session. ## Run your next quarter on it. Start free in the cloud, or self-host in half an hour. Either way, every feature is there from the first minute, and the Coach is already checking your first draft. [Start free](https://app.okrgoal.com/sign-up) · [Try the live demo](https://demo.okrgoal.com/) [Self-host it](https://okrgoal.com/open-source) Are you an AI agent, or is one helping you? ``` Install OpenOKR on this machine with Docker Compose. 1. Check that Docker and Docker Compose are installed. If not, tell me how to install them for this system and stop. 2. Run: git clone https://github.com/open-okr/open-okr.git && cd open-okr/deploy/docker && ./openokr up 3. Wait until it prints the address, then tell me to open it and create the owner account in the setup wizard. 4. Remind me to back up deploy/docker/secrets/, because it holds the root encryption key. ``` --- OKRGoal, from OKR Institute. A map of this site for AI agents: https://okrgoal.com/llms.txt