5 things that make Tability the OKR platform of choice for leaders in 2025

Picking a software often feels like an unfair tradeoff. You either:

• Get a platform that is easy to set up and use, or
• Get a platform that has powerful workflows, reporting and integrations

Some solutions can do both but it’s like finding a needle in a haystack, and that’s especially true when you’re looking at OKR tools.

If you’re looking for a place to manage your goals, your options used to be limited to spreadsheets on the one hand – easy to create but hard to scale, or heavy enterprise strategy platforms on the other hand – sophisticated reporting, but costly and hard to get your team on board.

That’s not great.

But this is exactly why we built Tability.

In 2024 we spent 320+ hours talking to teams to understand how they work, what tools they use, and what kind of questions they need to answer on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.

We used all that knowledge to build a platform that embraces the requirements of high performing teams:

• 80% of questions should be at most 2 clicks away from being answered
• You should be able to get started with your data within 5 minutes
• Enforce accountability and transparency
• Minimise tool fatigue

Let’s dive into some of the new features that will make Tability your OKR platform of choice – especially if you have a large number of teams and goals to manage.

Noise is the issue

If a company has 200 people, you can easily have twice as many OKRs in progress, and ten times as many projects to complete. That’s a ton of data to parse and as an individual you only care about a fraction of all of that. In any given quarter, there are probably ~20 people, ~15 goals, and ~50 projects that you need to keep in mind.

And this noise issue becomes exponentially harder to solve as your company grows. The number of goals and projects explodes, but as humans, we still have the same limits. There are still only ~20 people, ~15 goals, and ~50 projects that we care about, but there is now a lot more noise to filter out.

This is what our true job is at Tability.

Supporting OKRs is one part of the equation. Making sure that your team isn’t distracted and keeps working on the things that make a difference is the end objective.

How Tability solves the noise problem

Say that you’re a VP of Product with 4 Product Managers reporting to you. Each of them might own OKRs and strategic initiatives that are spread across multiple teams, on top of that you also have specific teams, goals and projects that you care about.

A common challenge in this situation is to get meaningful updates across the board. You have to nudge people all the time, comb spreadsheets to find the relevant data, or wait for memos to be written.

A better approach would be to have a platform that always puts the right information in front of the right people (including yourself).

1. Everyone can see their goals right when they sign in

Once you assign goals and initiatives to people, Tability will make sure that this is the first thing that they see when they log in.

Tability’s homepage will show each user:

• The OKRs they own
• The strategic initiatives attached to them
• The status updates that need to be completed

This approach follows our principle of reducing as much as possible the distance between a person and the things that they need to accomplish. The easier it is to see your commitments, the easier it will be to stay focused and deliver them.

Bonus: Tability will take care of reminders for you.

In order to minimise tool fatigue, Tability also doesn’t expect users to remember to load the app. Instead, there is a built-in reminders system that will nudge people when their progress check-ins are due.

Then as soon as updates are published, the platform will take care of sharing the check-ins with the relevant people – or you can also load the presentation more of your plan to get a keynote-like view in 1-click

2. Track your direct reports progress from your homepage

OKRs are organised by teams, but you’ll often want to focus on your direct reports or specific people that you often interact with. This is something made easy with Tability.

First, you’ll find at the bottom of your homepage a map view of your reports and manager. You can use this view to quickly scan the progress of the people closest to you, and quickly identify risks that need to be discussed.

Second, you will be able to go to any user’s profile page to see their current OKRs, projects, as well as the people in their network.

3. See all dependencies while staying in context

Once you identify a risk you will probably need to see related items to make sense of what’s going on.

The number of new leads is lagging behind? You might want to check if the Marketing projects have been completed, and other growth-related key results are also marked at risk.

A top-level key result is in the red? Time to look at how the dependent key results are doing.

Rather than forcing you to open up multiple tabs and signing into multiple tools, Tability will allow you to get all that context within the same page by scrolling down or opening detail panels in a pop-up.

Some examples:

You can scroll down in an OKR dashboard to see parent and sub-level OKRs displayed in a map.

You can expand key results to see dependent KRs and initiatives.

You can click on any key result to see a detail panel showing you its progress chart and the related projects whether they’re managed in Tability, or another project management platform.

You can open up the cascading map to visualise the tree of dependencies for each KR in your workspace.

4. Quick onboarding: import your data in seconds

Now, the big question is how quickly can we get started?

A single OKR plan can easily have 15 to 20 key results in it. That’d be a lot of fields to fill and submit if you had to use a form-based solution to add your goals – and this is often where teams start to resent traditional OKR tools.

Tability takes a different approach by offering a doc-like experience to create and edit goals. You can quickly type your OKRs and initiatives without being interrupted.

But that’s not all! We understand that Tability is a new platform to learn and you’re already familiar with spreadsheets. So why not use a spreadsheet to draft your goals? It’s a convenient and flexible tool that everyone in your organisation knows how to use.

Once your OKRs are ready you can use the magic import feature of Tability to add them in 1-click. Our AI will automatically detect the OKRs contained in the spreadsheet and translate them to the data structure used by Tability – no need to customise the spreadsheet to match a specific document format.

Once your data is imported you simply need to adjust the targets and set the owners. Then you can publish your plan to activate the reminders and start tracking progress. This novel approach to OKR creation allows teams to get started in minutes with the data they already have.

5. Free read-only users

Tability Premium is $10/user/month, but you’ll get 2 free read-only seats for every license purchased.

For instance, if you buy 50 Premium seats, you’ll get another 100 read-only seats allowing you to add a total of 150 people to your workspace.

Get started today

If you’re a leader looking to increase accountability and transparency then Tability is made for you.

Sign up for a free trial today at https://tability.app/signup.

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