Introducing Tability 3.0: Making OKRs (really) work for startups and scale-ups

A brief history of Tability

The first version of Tability was created to scale a simple but effective process that Atlassian’s co-CEO, Scott Farquhar, taught me.

I was a Product Manager and my team got the green light to build a new product in 3 months. Upon giving his approval, Scott asked for a simple thing – he wanted to know the 5 metrics that best captured success, and he wanted a weekly update on these metrics.

No fluff. Just the current value for each metric, how much it improved since the last update, and what we were doing to get to our target on time.

This weekly update kept us laser focused. It was effective because:

• We were talking about the same metrics every week – it wasn’t possible to obfuscate issues by changing topics
• It was super obvious when we were stagnant
• It was centred on the impact of the work we were doing, allowing us to be creative rather than keeping us locked on a specific approach

It was abundantly clear that this process would benefit a ton of teams. It needed to be scaled out of email and turned into a product.

That’s what Tability 1.0 was about. Then over time we learned that many teams also needed an easy-way way to set and review goals (Tability 2.0), and then AI came along, leading to this next iteration of Tability

Bring urgency back with OKRs and Tability 3.0

Urgency is hard to maintain for a simple reason: the bigger your team is, the more distance you have between the people setting the vision and the people working on realising it. This creates latency in the feedback, and it can weeks for teams to hear back from management during monthly or quarterly business reviews.

What you need is a tool that can significantly reduce the feedback latency. You need something that lets teams self-evaluate rapidly to correct their course when needed.

That’s in essence what OKRs are about.

OKRs shouldn’t feel like a way to micromanage what teams are doing. When done right, OKRs act as a beacon that allows teams to move fast with purpose without having to wait on leadership’s input at every corner.

So, OKRs are great – in theory.

But in practice, OKRs suck to scale if you don’t have the right tooling. Lack of integrations, workflows, visualisations, etc will create an unnecessary burden – quickly turning what should be a rapid process into bureaucracy.

That’s exactly the problem that Tability solves, and this next iteration of our platform will give you everything that you need to turn goals into team habits.

What’s new in Tability 3.0

Full OKR support

Tability 3.0 is carefully crafted to make OKRs easy to manage. You’ll find new ways to connect objectives and key results across teams, and you’ll be able to expand all dependencies from your top-level plan.

You’ll get the full benefits of seeing how goals relate to each other without creating a maintenance hell. Tability 3.0 is here to empower your teams and let them align as needed to top-level objectives

Tabby AI

Tabby is an AI agent that can help you set clear and measurable goals for your strategy. Tabby can learn from your progress and coach you to find the right action items to achieve your objectives.

Accountability and transparency tools

Strategy map, automated reminders, confidence statuses, out-of-date statuses. Tability is a complete platform tailored for accountability. Every aspect of the platform is carefully thought through to make sure that team always keep in mind their top priorities and celebrate their outstanding achievements.

Custom dashboards and insights

Stop wasting hours putting reports together. Tability 3.0 allows you to quickly create custom live dashboards that have all the information that you need to share. No more copy/pasting chart data, no need to wrestle powerpoints and spreadsheets.

Build a tailored dashboard in minutes, or use the presentation mode to get an instant keynote.

Connect your goals to your data

We now have 23 native data connectors that can pull data from tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, PowerBI, BigQuery, etc to automate your status reports. You can also connect Tability to Zapier to have access to 1,000+ apps.

Map OKRs to your projects

You can also connect Tability to Jira, ClickUp, Linear, Asana, Trello and Shortcut to sync your tasks with Taiblity. This allows you to keep outcomes and outputs close together and see exactly what your team is doing to achieve the goals that have been set.

A pricing that scales

We’ve drastically simplified our pricing:

• 2 plans: Basic and Premium
• Flexible upgrades: we have a minimum of 10 seats, but you can purchase as many seats as you want.
• Free read-only users: you can get 2 read-only seats for each Premium seat that you purchase.

A ton of resources

We’ve put together a complete guide to help you master OKRs. We also share best practices and tips on our blog, and we have more than 1,000 OKR templates that you can use as inspiration in our library.

How to get Tability 3.0

Learn more about the new Tability on our website.

Sign up for a free trial today at tability.app.