Goals that track themselves

A Company’s 🎯 Goals tab holds its objectives and OKRs — and their progress keeps itself current as the linked work gets done.

What you’ll learn

• Where Company goals live and how to add one.
• How progress is computed instead of typed in by hand.
• How a finished goal feeds back into your workers.

Set the objective

Open a Company and click 🎯 Goals (under the Run it tabs). Add a goal — an objective with measurable key results (an OKR). Goals are per-Company: each team tracks its own, scoped here rather than at the top level.

Goals, tasks, projects — all per-Company

These primitives don’t live at the workspace level. Each Company has its own scoped Goals, Tasks (the kanban board), and Projects under its Run it tabs. The workforce-wide Workers hub is about people, not their boards.

Progress that computes itself

You don’t nudge a percentage bar by hand. Goals show progress, and the Goals tab rolls it up from the work attached to them — so the number reflects what’s actually shipped, not what someone remembered to update.

Link the work, watch the bar

Point tasks at the goal they serve. As those tasks move across the kanban toward Done, the goal’s progress reflects it — the scoreboard maintains itself.

Goals feed back into workers

A completed goal isn’t a dead end. When a goal a worker contributed to is achieved, a performance review is auto-written for that worker (separate from their Friday journal). Hitting goals is how your workforce visibly grows.

Goals worth setting

A goal only tracks itself if the work is genuinely linked to it — so write goals that real tasks can attach to. Three that work:

“Publish 12 posts this quarter.” Countable, and every draft task points at it. The bar moves as work reaches Done, so on any given Tuesday you know whether you’re behind — without maintaining a spreadsheet you’d have stopped updating by week three.

“Answer every customer question within one working day.” The tasks are the individual replies. This one is useful precisely because a slipping bar is an early warning: it tells you the volume grew before you feel it as a bad week.

“Get the docs current with v0.9.273.” A finite catch-up project with a real finish line. When it completes, the workers who contributed get an auto-written review — which, over a quarter, is a genuinely informative record of which workers carried real work versus which ones you configured and forgot.

A goal with no linked tasks is decoration

Progress is computed from attached work. A goal nothing points at will sit at zero forever and tell you nothing — which is a fair signal in itself: if no task serves it, it isn’t really a goal you’re pursuing.

Recap

Company goals are OKRs whose progress is computed from linked tasks, and achieving one writes a review for the workers who helped — so tracking and growth both happen on their own. That completes the Build a company track.

📖 Reference in the docs: Company profile

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