How to set quarterly okrs on Starch

Quarterly OKRs are how a company decides, in writing, what actually matters for the next 90 days — and what doesn't. Most operators do a version of this already, even if it's informal: a pre-quarter conversation about priorities, a few goals written in Notion or a Google Doc, a check-in six weeks later. The problem is that the informal version rarely survives contact with the quarter. Priorities drift. Key results never get baseline numbers attached. The OKR doc goes stale by week three and nobody revisits it until the retrospective, when it's too late to course-correct.

What this looks like in practice varies — a product team's OKR process looks different from an ops team's, and both look different from a founder setting company-wide goals solo. The underlying failure modes are the same, though: disconnection between strategy and what's measurable, no single place where progress lives, and action items from the planning meeting that never get owned.

On Starch, you end the quarter-planning process with a searchable knowledge base entry for each objective and its key results — baseline pulled from your actual data, owners named, progress checkpoints built in. Meeting notes from your planning session are auto-summarized with decisions and action items extracted. If you want a board-ready summary of your OKRs, you describe the format and get a draft in minutes. The work that usually takes three separate tools and two follow-up Slack threads happens in one place, and the output is findable three months later when you're writing the retrospective.