# GoalCadence > One platform for OKRs, Scaling Up, and 4DX. GoalCadence gives teams goals, > metrics, meetings, and accountability in one place — with first-class support > for OKRs, Scaling Up, and 4DX, and configurable templates for Balanced > Scorecard, Hoshin Kanri, and Pinnacle. Built for teams running one framework, > several, or the blend most growing companies actually use. GoalCadence is currently in development. Sign-ups are a waitlist, not an account. Full text of the glossary and every agent skill: https://goalcadence.com/llms-full.txt ## Supported frameworks First-class (deepest tooling): OKRs, Scaling Up, 4DX. Configurable templates: Balanced Scorecard, Hoshin Kanri, Pinnacle. Not supported: EOS — see TractionFlow (https://tractionflow.app), a separate product built specifically for EOS teams. ## Core Pages - [Home](https://goalcadence.com/): One platform for OKRs, Scaling Up, and 4DX - [Features](https://goalcadence.com/features): Every tool the platform includes - [Compare Frameworks](https://goalcadence.com/business-operating-system): Side-by-side comparison of all six supported frameworks - [Pricing](https://goalcadence.com/pricing): Flat-rate plans by team size - [About](https://goalcadence.com/about): Company story and founder - [Contact](https://goalcadence.com/contact): Get in touch ## Framework Pages - [OKR Software](https://goalcadence.com/okr-software): Objectives and Key Results tracking and scoring - [Scaling Up](https://goalcadence.com/scaling-up): Verne Harnish's growth methodology - [4DX](https://goalcadence.com/4dx): The 4 Disciplines of Execution (FranklinCovey) - [Balanced Scorecard](https://goalcadence.com/balanced-scorecard): The Kaplan-Norton strategy framework - [Hoshin Kanri](https://goalcadence.com/hoshin-kanri): Japanese strategy deployment and the X-matrix - [Pinnacle](https://goalcadence.com/pinnacle): Pinnacle Business Guide implementation ## Feature Pages - [Meetings](https://goalcadence.com/meetings): Structured leadership meetings with agendas and timers - [Scorecard](https://goalcadence.com/scorecard): Weekly KPI and metric tracking - [Goals & Priorities](https://goalcadence.com/rocks): Quarterly goal setting and tracking - [Quarterly Planning](https://goalcadence.com/quarterly-planning): Running a quarterly planning session - [Strategy Execution](https://goalcadence.com/strategy-execution): Turning strategy into measurable results ## Framework Guides - [What Are OKRs? Complete Guide](https://goalcadence.com/blog/what-are-okrs-complete-guide): How OKRs work, with examples for every department - [What Is Scaling Up?](https://goalcadence.com/blog/what-is-scaling-up-framework): The Scaling Up framework explained - [What Is 4DX?](https://goalcadence.com/blog/what-is-4dx-four-disciplines-of-execution): The Four Disciplines of Execution explained - [What Is Balanced Scorecard?](https://goalcadence.com/blog/what-is-balanced-scorecard-framework): The Kaplan-Norton framework explained - [What Is Hoshin Kanri?](https://goalcadence.com/blog/what-is-hoshin-kanri-strategy-deployment): Strategy deployment and the X-matrix explained ## Choosing a Framework - [Complete Guide to Business Operating Systems](https://goalcadence.com/blog/complete-guide-business-operating-systems): Every framework compared - [How to Choose a Business Operating System](https://goalcadence.com/blog/how-to-choose-business-operating-system): A decision framework - [How to Transition from EOS to OKRs](https://goalcadence.com/blog/how-to-transition-from-eos-to-okrs): Migrating between frameworks - [Best OKR Software for Small Business](https://goalcadence.com/blog/best-okr-software-for-small-business): What to look for in a tool ## Implementation Resources - [Free Templates & Tools](https://goalcadence.com/resources): Ungated planning, scorecard and meeting templates - [OKR Examples for Every Department](https://goalcadence.com/blog/okr-examples-for-every-department): Practical OKR examples - [How to Set Quarterly Goals](https://goalcadence.com/blog/how-to-set-quarterly-goals): A step-by-step guide - [Weekly Leadership Meeting Agenda](https://goalcadence.com/blog/weekly-leadership-meeting-agenda): A meeting template - [Quarterly Business Review Template](https://goalcadence.com/blog/quarterly-business-review-template): Running a QBR - [Strategy Execution: Why Companies Fail](https://goalcadence.com/blog/strategy-execution-why-companies-fail): Research-backed analysis ## Standing on the Shoulders of Giants Essays connecting historical business thinkers to modern frameworks. - [John D. Rockefeller: The Original Business Operating System](https://goalcadence.com/blog/john-d-rockefeller-the-original-business-operating-system) - [Verne Harnish: Scaling Up the Rockefeller Way](https://goalcadence.com/blog/verne-harnish-scaling-up-the-rockefeller-way) - [Patrick Lencioni: The People Side of Business Systems](https://goalcadence.com/blog/patrick-lencioni-the-people-side-of-business-systems) - [Dale Carnegie: People Skills That Power Business Systems](https://goalcadence.com/blog/dale-carnegie-people-skills-that-power-business-systems) ## By Role What each seat is accountable for, what goes wrong from it, and the review rhythm that fits. Framework-neutral; no product walkthrough. - [CEO](https://goalcadence.com/ceo): A CEO owns whether the strategy happens, but sees it through other people's summaries. - [COO](https://goalcadence.com/coo): A COO owns the gap between what was decided and what actually ships. - [Chief of Staff](https://goalcadence.com/chief-of-staff): A Chief of Staff usually inherits the operating rhythm before anyone writes it down: the planning session, the weekly leadership meeting, the follow-up that makes decisions stick. - [PMO](https://goalcadence.com/pmo): A PMO is accountable for telling the truth about a portfolio it does not control. - [Team Lead](https://goalcadence.com/team-lead): A team lead is the last translation layer between a company priority and work that actually happens. - [CFO](https://goalcadence.com/cfo): A CFO signs for the resources a strategy consumes and answers for the gap when it underdelivers. ## By Need Category buyer's guides: what the software does, what to look for, and when you do not need it yet. - [Goal Tracking Software: What It Is and What to Look For](https://goalcadence.com/goal-tracking-software): Goal tracking software is a shared place to record a team's goals, assign an owner to each, update progress on a rhythm, and see what is off track. - [Goal Setting Software: What It Is and What to Look For](https://goalcadence.com/goal-setting-software): Goal setting software is a shared place to write goals in a consistent format, agree them across teams, and commit them for a period so everyone is working from the same list. - [Strategic Planning Software: What It Is and What to Look For](https://goalcadence.com/strategic-planning-software): Strategic planning software is a shared system for turning a multi-year strategy into owned, dated commitments and keeping them under review as conditions change. - [KPI Tracking Software: What It Is and What to Look For](https://goalcadence.com/kpi-tracking-software): KPI tracking software holds a short list of numbers, each with a named owner and a target, updated on a fixed rhythm and read together as a group. ## Framework Comparisons 7 neutral side-by-side comparisons. No framework is positioned as better than another; each page compares how the two set goals, measure progress, and fail. - [OKRs vs KPIs](https://goalcadence.com/okr-vs-kpi): An OKR is a goal you are trying to reach in a set period: an Objective plus three to five Key Results that move a metric from a baseline to a target. - [OKRs vs 4DX](https://goalcadence.com/okr-vs-4dx): OKRs and 4DX both narrow a team to a few goals, but they answer different questions. - [OKRs vs Scaling Up](https://goalcadence.com/okr-vs-scaling-up): OKRs and Scaling Up overlap, but they operate at different sizes. - [Scaling Up vs 4DX](https://goalcadence.com/scaling-up-vs-4dx): Scaling Up and 4DX sit at different layers. - [OKRs vs SMART Goals](https://goalcadence.com/okr-vs-smart-goals): OKRs and SMART goals solve different problems. - [OKRs vs Balanced Scorecard](https://goalcadence.com/okr-vs-balanced-scorecard): OKRs are a quarterly goal format: one Objective with three to five Key Results, re-set each cycle. - [Balanced Scorecard vs Hoshin Kanri](https://goalcadence.com/balanced-scorecard-vs-hoshin-kanri): The Balanced Scorecard is a measurement system: Kaplan and Norton's four perspectives — Financial, Customer, Internal Business Process, and Learning and Growth — force a strategy to be described with its causes, not only its results. ## Agent skills 9 free Markdown agent skills for Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT and Copilot. Each is a plain .md instruction file, printed in full on its page and downloadable from /skills/files/.md. No signup. - [Agent skills index](https://goalcadence.com/skills): All skills - [OKR Writer](https://goalcadence.com/skills/okr-writer) (OKR): A Markdown skill that turns a vague intention into a well-formed OKR: one Objective with no numbers in it, and three to five Key Results written from a real baseline to a real target. - [OKR Grader](https://goalcadence.com/skills/okr-grader) (OKR): A Markdown skill that grades a draft OKR out of 100 before the quarter starts, with line-by-line PASS / TIP / FIX feedback. - [WIG Definer](https://goalcadence.com/skills/wig-definer) (4DX): A Markdown skill that narrows a long list of goals down to one or two Wildly Important Goals, written in 4DX's from-X-to-Y-by-when form, and checks the team can actually move them. - [Lead Measure Finder](https://goalcadence.com/skills/lead-measure-finder) (4DX): A Markdown skill that takes a lag measure and finds the two or three lead measures that are both predictive of it and influenceable by the team — the pairing 4DX is built on. - [One-Page Strategic Plan Builder](https://goalcadence.com/skills/opsp-builder) (Scaling Up): A Markdown skill that walks a team through drafting Verne Harnish's One-Page Strategic Plan — core values, purpose, BHAG, three-to-five-year targets, the one-year plan, quarterly priorities and the critical number. - [Scorecard Designer](https://goalcadence.com/skills/scorecard-designer) (Any framework): A Markdown skill that helps a team choose the five to fifteen weekly metrics worth reviewing, each with one named owner and a target, mixing leading and lagging indicators. - [Quarterly Priority Planner](https://goalcadence.com/skills/quarterly-priority-planner) (Any framework): A Markdown skill that cuts a messy list of everything a team wants to do down to three to five quarterly priorities, each with a named owner and a done-condition you can answer yes or no. - [Leadership Meeting Agenda Builder](https://goalcadence.com/skills/meeting-agenda-builder) (Any framework): A Markdown skill that builds a timed weekly leadership meeting agenda: last week's commitments first, the scorecard in five minutes, then most of the hour spent solving a small number of issues. - [Framework Selector](https://goalcadence.com/skills/framework-selector) (Any framework): A Markdown skill that asks a short diagnostic and recommends OKRs, Scaling Up, 4DX, Balanced Scorecard, Hoshin Kanri or SMART goals, with a runner-up and an honest reason. ## Templates 9 free, ungated templates. Every one previews in full on its page and downloads as .docx or PDF with no signup and no email gate. - [Templates index](https://goalcadence.com/templates): All templates - [Universal Weekly Scorecard Template](https://goalcadence.com/templates/weekly-scorecard-template): A blank weekly scorecard for any industry: 5 to 15 metrics, one owner per metric, a target column, and thirteen weeks of tracking so a quarter fits on one page. - [SaaS Scorecard Template](https://goalcadence.com/templates/saas-scorecard-template): A weekly scorecard pre-filled with the metrics SaaS companies actually track — MRR, expansion, churn, CAC, pipeline, activation and support — grouped by function with owners and targets. - [90-Day Priority Planning Template](https://goalcadence.com/templates/quarterly-priority-template): A one-page worksheet for choosing and tracking the three to five priorities that define a quarter — owner, measurable done-condition, milestones and a weekly status. - [Quarterly Planning Session Workbook](https://goalcadence.com/templates/quarterly-planning-workbook): A full-day agenda and workbook for running a quarterly planning session: reviewing the quarter that ended, resetting priorities, and leaving with owners and dates. - [Annual Planning Toolkit](https://goalcadence.com/templates/annual-planning-toolkit): Everything needed to run an annual planning offsite: a pre-read checklist, a timed two-day agenda, worksheets for the one-year plan, and the handoff into quarterly priorities. - [Meeting Rating Scorecard](https://goalcadence.com/templates/weekly-leadership-meeting-template): Rate every leadership meeting out of 10 against a fixed set of criteria, track the score over time, and see whether the meeting is actually improving. - [Action Item Tracker](https://goalcadence.com/templates/action-item-tracker): Track the commitments that come out of every leadership meeting: who owns each item, when it is due, and whether last week's actions actually closed. - [Open Issues Management Template](https://goalcadence.com/templates/open-issues-template): Capture every obstacle, problem and idea in one list, prioritize the few that matter each week, and solve them with a structured process instead of discussing them repeatedly. - [Meeting Effectiveness Scorecard](https://goalcadence.com/templates/meeting-cost-calculator): Work out what a recurring meeting actually costs in salary time, score whether it earns that, and track the before-and-after when you change it. ## Glossary 44 definitions for the goal, metric, meeting and planning vocabulary used across OKRs, Scaling Up, 4DX, Balanced Scorecard and Hoshin Kanri. - [Glossary index](https://goalcadence.com/glossary): All terms, A-Z - [Balanced Scorecard](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/balanced-scorecard): The Balanced Scorecard is a strategy management framework, introduced by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in a 1992 Harvard Business Review article, that measures performance across four perspectives — Financial, Customer, Internal Business Process, and Learning & Growth — rather than on financial results alone. - [Balanced Scorecard Perspectives](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/balanced-scorecard-perspectives): The Balanced Scorecard perspectives are the four categories Kaplan and Norton use to group objectives and measures: Financial, Customer, Internal Business Process, and Learning & Growth. - [Baseline and Target](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/baseline-and-target): A baseline and target is the pairing that makes a goal measurable: the value a metric holds at the moment the goal is set (the baseline) and the value it should reach by the deadline (the target). - [BHAG](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/bhag): A BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) is a single clear goal set ten to twenty-five years out, ambitious enough that reaching it looks improbable on the day it is written. - [Business Operating System](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/business-operating-system): A business operating system is a structured, repeating way of running a company: a stated vision, a small number of goals, a defined meeting rhythm, an agreed set of numbers, and clear accountability for each. - [Cadence of Accountability](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/cadence-of-accountability): The cadence of accountability is the weekly meeting rhythm in which a team accounts for what it committed to do last week, reviews its scoreboard, and commits to one or two specific actions for the week ahead. - [Catchball](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/catchball): Catchball is the negotiation step in Hoshin Kanri in which a proposed objective is passed between organizational levels — down for challenge, back up with revisions — until the people who have to deliver it have shaped both the target and the means of reaching it. - [Check-in](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/check-in): A check-in is a brief, recurring update on a goal or metric in which its owner states the current number, whether it is still on track, and what has changed since the last update. - [Committed vs Aspirational OKRs](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/committed-vs-aspirational-okrs): Committed and aspirational OKRs are the two classes an OKR is assigned when it is set. - [Confidence Score](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/confidence-score): A confidence score is the owner's stated likelihood, usually on a 1-to-10 scale or as a percentage, that a Key Result will reach its target by the end of the cycle. - [Core Values](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/core-values): Core values are the three to five behaviors an organization genuinely hires, promotes and occasionally fires on. - [Critical Number](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/critical-number): A critical number is the one metric a company or team chooses to move in a given quarter or year — the number that reflects the constraint currently holding the business back. - [Daily Huddle](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/daily-huddle): A daily huddle is a short standing meeting — typically five to fifteen minutes at the same time every day — built on a fixed three-part agenda: what is happening today, the day's key number, and where anyone is stuck. - [Goal Cascading](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/goal-cascading): Goal cascading is the practice of connecting goals across the levels of an organization so that team and individual goals visibly support the company's. - [Goal Hierarchy](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/goal-hierarchy): A goal hierarchy is the structure that connects a company's goals across time horizons — a long-range ambition at the top, annual targets beneath it, quarterly priorities beneath those, and weekly commitments at the bottom. - [Hoshin Kanri](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/hoshin-kanri): Hoshin Kanri is a strategy deployment method from Japanese quality management — developed at companies including Bridgestone and Toyota from the 1960s, under the influence of W. - [Key Result](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/key-result): A Key Result is the measurable half of an OKR: a specific metric moved from a stated baseline to a stated target within the cycle. - [KPI](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/kpi): A KPI (key performance indicator) is a metric an organization has agreed to watch as evidence of whether a specific part of the business is healthy. - [Lag Measure](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/lag-measure): A lag measure is the metric that records whether a goal was achieved — revenue, retention, margin, cycle time, defect rate — and it can only be read after the work that produced it is finished. - [Lead Measure](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/lead-measure): A lead measure is a metric that tracks the behavior a team believes will produce its goal, chosen because it is both predictive of the result and directly influenceable by the people doing the work. - [Leading vs Lagging Indicator](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/leading-vs-lagging-indicator): A leading indicator is a metric that moves before the outcome it predicts and can be influenced directly in the short term; a lagging indicator records the outcome itself, after the work that produced it is complete. - [Metric](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/metric): A metric is any quantity a business measures — a count, a rate, a ratio, or an average — that describes something which happened. - [North Star Metric](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/north-star-metric): A north star metric is the single number a company chooses to represent the core value its customers receive, used to align teams that would otherwise optimize for conflicting local goals. - [Objective](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/objective): An Objective is the qualitative half of an OKR: a short, memorable statement of what a team intends to achieve in the cycle. - [OKR](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/okr): An OKR (Objectives and Key Results) is a goal-setting framework that pairs one qualitative Objective — the outcome you want — with three to five measurable Key Results that prove you reached it. - [OKR Scoring](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/okr-scoring): OKR scoring is the practice of grading each Key Result on a 0.0 to 1.0 scale at the end of a cycle, based on how far the metric moved between its baseline and its target. - [One-Page Strategic Plan (OPSP)](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/one-page-strategic-plan): The One-Page Strategic Plan (OPSP) is the core planning document of Verne Harnish's Scaling Up: a single sheet holding core values, purpose, a BHAG, three-to-five-year targets, the one-year plan, the quarter's priorities and theme, and each individual's priorities. - [Operating Cadence](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/operating-cadence): An operating cadence is the fixed schedule of recurring sessions a company uses to plan, review and correct — typically an annual plan, quarterly planning, a weekly leadership meeting, and often a daily huddle. - [Quarterly Business Review (QBR)](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/quarterly-business-review): A Quarterly Business Review (QBR) is a formal session held at the close of a quarter to examine what actually happened — results against plan, financials, pipeline, and the state of major initiatives — and to decide what changes as a result. - [Quarterly Planning](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/quarterly-planning): Quarterly planning is the working session where a leadership team reviews the ninety days just finished, chooses the handful of priorities for the ninety ahead, and attaches an owner and a measure to each one. - [Quarterly Priority](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/quarterly-priority): A quarterly priority is a discrete piece of work a team commits to finishing inside a thirteen-week quarter, with one named owner and an agreed definition of done. - [Quarterly Theme](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/quarterly-theme): A quarterly theme is a named, time-boxed company campaign built around the quarter's critical number, complete with a visible scoreboard and a celebration when the target is hit. - [Rockefeller Habits](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/rockefeller-habits): The Rockefeller Habits are ten management disciplines codified by Verne Harnish in Mastering the Rockefeller Habits (2002) and later carried into Scaling Up. - [Scoreboard](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/scoreboard): A scoreboard in 4DX is the simple, visible display a team keeps of its own goal, showing the lag measure, the lead measures and where both should stand by now, designed so anyone can tell within five seconds whether the team is winning or losing. - [Scorecard](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/scorecard): A scorecard is a short, fixed list of metrics — usually five to fifteen — reviewed on the same rhythm every week or month, with an owner, a target, and the current actual beside each row. - [SMART Goals](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/smart-goals): SMART goals are goals written to satisfy five criteria — Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound — a checklist introduced by George Doran in 1981 to make objectives verifiable rather than vague. - [Strategy Execution](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/strategy-execution): Strategy execution is the work of turning a stated strategy into the priorities, measures, owners, and meetings that change what an organization actually does. - [Strategy Map](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/strategy-map): A strategy map is the one-page diagram behind a Balanced Scorecard: it arranges an organization's objectives across the four perspectives and connects them with arrows showing which objective is expected to drive which. - [Stretch Goal](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/stretch-goal): A stretch goal is a target set deliberately beyond what a team is confident it can hit, so that planning starts from ambition rather than from a comfortable extrapolation. - [The Whirlwind](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/the-whirlwind): The whirlwind is the 4DX term for the urgent day-to-day work that keeps an organization running — the tickets, escalations, shipments, approvals and recurring duties that already consume most of a team's time. - [True North](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/true-north): True North is the term used in Hoshin Kanri and lean management for an organization's long-range ideal state — the condition it is permanently moving toward, such as zero defects or delivery exactly when promised. - [Weekly Leadership Meeting](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/weekly-leadership-meeting): A weekly leadership meeting is a standing session — commonly 60 to 90 minutes, same day and same time each week — in which a leadership team reviews its numbers against target, checks progress on quarterly priorities, and works through whatever is blocking them. - [Wildly Important Goal (WIG)](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/wildly-important-goal): A Wildly Important Goal (WIG) is the one goal a team commits to achieving above all others in a given period, written as a single measure moving from a defined starting point to a defined finish line by a defined date. - [X-Matrix](https://goalcadence.com/glossary/x-matrix): The X-Matrix is the single-page planning document used in Hoshin Kanri, named for the X shape its four quadrants form. ## Help - [Help Center](https://goalcadence.com/help): Getting started and FAQ - [Getting Started](https://goalcadence.com/help/get-started): First steps - [Frequently Asked Questions](https://goalcadence.com/help/frequently-asked-questions): Common questions - [Scorecard Implementation](https://goalcadence.com/help/scorecard-implementation): Building your first scorecard - [Scorecard Templates by Industry](https://goalcadence.com/help/scorecard-templates-by-industry): Industry-specific metric sets ## Trust & Security GoalCadence is in development: no customer accounts, no production data, and no SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / HIPAA / PCI DSS certification. The site collects waitlist signups, contact form messages, and consent-gated analytics (Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity, denied by default in the EU, EEA and UK). - [Trust & Security](https://goalcadence.com/trust): What we collect, who processes it, and what we do not yet have - [Privacy Policy](https://goalcadence.com/privacy): How we handle personal data - [Terms of Service](https://goalcadence.com/terms): Terms for using the site ## Related Products - [TractionFlow](https://tractionflow.app): EOS implementation platform (sister product) - [MeetingTango](https://meetingtango.com): AI-powered meeting tools (sister product)