North

North is a lightweight, data-driven platform designed to help teams move from planning to measurable outcomes by managing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), Strategy, and Initiatives in a single app. It emphasizes aligning teams to business goals, prioritizing high-impact work, and accelerating progress toward defined metrics.

Overview

• Purpose: Turn outputs and objectives into measurable outcomes by linking goals, key results, and initiatives.
• Audience: Teams and organizations aiming to improve alignment, prioritization, and execution efficiency.
• Value proposition: Provides a unified view of strategy, goals, and work, enabling faster onboarding, clear visibility, and better decision-making through metric-driven planning.

How It Works

• Align teams to goals by surfacing the big picture and ensuring every team member understands how their work contributes to strategic targets.
• Plan work to move metrics by prioritizing projects with the highest impact on key metrics, driving measurable progress.
• Track progress with OKRs, initiatives, and check-ins to keep teams on pace and informed about pacing and milestones.

Key Use Cases

• Strategy alignment: Connect company vision to actionable goals and initiatives.
• OKR management: Create, track, and review Objectives and Key Results across teams.
• Initiative planning: Map initiatives to OKRs and measure impact on key metrics.
• Performance visibility: Provide leadership and teams with dashboards and progress indicators to maintain alignment.

How to Use North

• Start with setting overarching OKRs and strategy.
• Define initiatives that will move those OKRs and assign ownership.
• Regularly check in on progress, update key results, and re-prioritize work as needed to stay on track.

Safety and Privacy

• North emphasizes a privacy-conscious approach with a focus on internal alignment and data-driven decision making. (Note: Specific data handling policies aren’t detailed in the provided content.)

Core Features

• Unified app for Strategy, OKRs, and Initiatives
• Alignment tooling to ensure teams understand and contribute to goals
• Planning and prioritization to move key metrics
• Regular check-ins and progress tracking for Objectives and Initiatives
• Templates and learning resources for implementing OKRs effectively
• Accessible for organizations of various sizes with a focus on onboarding speed and depth over time