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# Plan Score

Use Plan Score and its tips to improve the quality of a plan

**Plan Score** is a live quality check for the goals you are writing. It helps you spot common planning problems before you publish a plan; it is not a measure of execution progress or business impact.

## Find the Plan Score

1. Open a plan.
2. Click **Edit content** to open the Plan Editor.
3. Review **Plan score** in the right-hand panel. The score updates as the plan changes.

The panel shows a total out of 100 and a separate bar for each of the five dimensions. The total is the average of those dimension scores.

## What the five dimensions check

* **Focus:** The plan has a timeline and a manageable number of objectives and key results. Tability recommends two or three objectives per plan and two to four key results per objective.
* **Descriptive:** Objective and key-result titles are long enough to be clear without becoming difficult to scan.
* **Measurable:** Objectives have enough key results, and measurable key results use explicit starting values, targets, and formats instead of an unchanged default percentage target.
* **Ownership:** Key results have owners and accountability is shared across the team instead of concentrated with one person.
* **Actionable:** The plan includes initiatives that describe how the team intends to affect its key results.

The score is a prompt for review, not a rigid OKR formula. A lower score can be reasonable when the plan intentionally uses a different structure; use the tips to decide whether the flagged issue applies.

## Use the Tips panel

The **Tips** section lists the specific issues affecting the score.

1. Select a tip to highlight the related plan row or setting in purple.
2. Read the expanded explanation beneath the tip.
3. Update the highlighted objective, key result, target, owner, initiative, or plan timeline.
4. Select the same tip again, or click **hide highlights**, to clear the highlight.

Common tips include setting a plan timeline, reducing competing objectives, adding measurable key results, replacing default targets, assigning owners, sharing ownership, and adding initiatives.

## Read the score colours

Dimension bars use three colour bands:

* **Red:** 40 or below
* **Yellow:** 41 to 75
* **Green:** above 75

Aim to resolve tips that expose genuine ambiguity or missing accountability. A perfect score is less important than a plan your team can understand, own, and act on.