The OKR Starter Kit
Pre-built OKRs to help your team get started today
About
The OKR Starter Kit helps new Tability teams run their first OKR cycle with confidence.
If youâre unsure what your goals should be, this kit gives you ready-to-use OKRs you can start with immediately.
They wonât be perfect but thatâs intentional.
The goal is to build the habit, learn what matters, and improve next cycle.
â Success is not hitting every key result. â Success is running a full cycle with honest check-ins and clear learning.
What you'll need:
A Tability trial or subscription (you can sign up for a 14-day trial)
That's it! You'll find templates that you can import in this guide
How a week with OKRs should run
OKRs only work if theyâre part of a simple, repeatable rhythm.
Weekly cadence (recommended)
Monday â OKR Review (30 min, 10:00am) Review progress, surface risks, and decide what matters this week.
Friday â Demo & Wrap-up (30 min, 3:00pm) Demo what shipped, share learnings, and close the loop.
Add this cadence to your calendar
Create both recurring meetings with one click.
[ Add OKR Meetings to My Calendar ] (Works with Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple Calendar, and Teams)
How to run the weekly meetings (non-negotiable)
Monday OKR Review â 30 minutes
Agenda
20 min â Review KR status (green / amber / red)
10 min â Decide 1â2 concrete actions for the week
Rules
Skim over green KRs (but don't ignore them)
Don't try to solve everything on the spot, plan initiatives in separate meetings
If everything is green, end early
Friday Demo â 30 minutes
Agenda
20 min â Demo what shipped or progressed
10 min â Share learnings, surprises, and blockers
Rules
Show real work, not slides
Learning beats polish
How this works
1. Pick a Starter Kit
Choose the kit that best matches where your team is today. Each kit contains pre-built OKRs you can import and run as-is.
Product-Market Fit For teams still figuring out what to build and for whom. Focused on customer discovery, early engagement, and validation signals. â Link to Google Sheet
Revenue Growth & Customer Happiness For mature teams with customers, focused on growing revenue while improving retention and satisfaction. â Link to Google Sheet
Fundraising Milestone (e.g. Seed Round) For teams working toward a clear traction milestone to unlock their next fundraise. Focused on revenue momentum, repeatability, and investor readiness. â Link to Google Sheet
Default path If youâre unsure: pick Product-Market Fit, import it as-is, and run it for one cycle.
2. Import the OKRs into Tability
Duplicate the Google Sheet, update the numbers where necessary, and then use the magic import feature to add your OKRs to Tability.
How to use the Magic Import
Download a CSV export from Google.
Go to Tability and create a new plan.
From the options, click on Use magic import
Select your CSV file
Click on Import from CSV file
After a couple of seconds you should see all the OKRs added to your workspace.
Rules
Donât rewrite everything
Rename only if something is clearly wrong
Do not aim for perfect OKRs
Momentum beats accuracy.
3. Assign owners
For each key result:
Assign one owner (not a team, not âsharedâ)
4. During the quarter: track progress weekly check-ins (this is the work)
OKRs are only as useful as the check-ins you write.
Bad check-in
âStill working on this. No major updates.â
Good check-in
âActivation increased from 22% â 26% after onboarding copy change. Still below target. Main blocker is drop-off on step 2. This week we're planning to _______â
5. End of the quarter: learn and reset (end of cycle, 60 minutes)
At the end of the cycle:
Run a retrospective
Identify what was unclear, wrong, or missing
Adjust or replace OKRs for the next cycle
Your second cycle will be significantly better than your first.
What will make this process successful
Read this once. It will save you weeks.
Commit to the weekly check-ins If you skip weekly updates or write vague check-ins, this process will not work.
Embrace a lean approach Weekly 30-minute reviews will help you refine execution faster than long monthly workshops.
Only track what matters Resist the temptation to add more OKRs for your first cycle. Business-as-usual work, KPIs and detailed plans live elsewhere.
If this happens, youâre doing it wrong
Your OKRs look like a series of tasks to execute
There's only one person that is updating all the OKRs for everyone
Using OKRs to evaluate individual performance
Skipping check-ins because ânothing changedâ
Often skipping OKR review meetings because "we don't have time this week"
Fix these first before changing your OKRs.
Time investment (keep it lightweight)
Initial setup: ~30 minutes
Weekly cadence: 60 minutes total
End-of-cycle review: 60 minutes
If OKRs take more time than this, simplify.
What to do now
Add the weekly meetings to your calendar
Pick a Starter Kit
Import it into Tability
Run one full cycle before changing anything
Thatâs it. Youâre officially running OKRs.
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