Radical Focus
One objective per team and three key results, with a warning past either. The planning phases are hidden. In the style of Christina Wodtke's book.
For growing companies
Your first OKR rollout, done properly.
You do not need a consultant or a full-time OKR lead to run OKRs well. You need good drafts, a weekly rhythm somebody keeps, and an honest close. OKRGoal does the keeping, so you can do the thinking.
Most companies are on their second try.
The first time, the founders wrote objectives on an offsite. Ten of them. The key results were a to-do list. Check-ins happened for three weeks, then the quarter got busy. By the review, nobody could say what had worked.
None of that was a people problem. Nothing checked the drafts and nothing ran the rhythm. OKRGoal does both.
What the first quarter looks like.
Do less, and do it properly.
Two profiles are built for a first rollout:
Objectives per team warn past1
Key results per objective warn past3
Planning phases hidden
Lightweight
Track OKRs without the planning workflow. Check-ins every two weeks. Only the two structural gates. Good for teams who want the habit before the process.
Planning workflow
Check-insEvery two weeks
Publish gates structural only2 of 6
Switch to the Recommended profile when you are ready for the full cycle. A closed quarter keeps the rules it ran under.
Nobody has to learn another tool.
growth
OKR ChampionAPP
checkin.dueCheck-in due today: New enterprise pipeline
Check inOpen in OKRGoal
Status
On track
Confidence
6 / 10
One line on why
Two deals moved to proposal. Legal is slow on the contract template.
Qualified pipeline from 1.1m to 2.0m
1.4m
Publish check-in
Slack, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, Telegram or email. Whichever app your team lives in.
Grows with you
From ten people to a few thousand
The same product runs a five-person startup and a university. Add departments, levels and governance when you need them.
No plan to outgrow
Every feature is on the free plan. When you grow, you pay for the AI you use, not for features.
Keep it, or take it
Export everything at any time, or move to your own servers when your security team asks.
Questions
We are twenty people. Is this too much?
Choose the Radical Focus or Lightweight profile and it is as small as a shared document, with the Champion doing the chasing.
Do we need an OKR lead?
No. Somebody should own your OKRs, often the chief of staff or a founder, but the product runs the reminders, the agenda, the digest and the review.
We have OKRs in a spreadsheet. Can we keep them?
Upload the spreadsheet. You confirm the column mapping, see a dry run, then import.
Do we need to use AI?
No. It drafts and rewrites if you connect it, and every rule but one runs either way.