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Fixing Your OKRs Using AI
AI tools can help diagnose weak OKRs — identifying vanity metrics, output-focused objectives, and key results that lack measurability. A practical guide to AI-assisted OKR improvement.
Please don’t write your OKRs using AI. OKRs should reflect YOUR strategy. Your choices. Your strong opinion. Your tradeoffs.
What you CAN do is use AI to fix your OKRs.
Here are some ways you could go about doing that:
Collaborate with AI to create a prompt that reflects your perspective on what makes great OKRs
Point AI at an OKR expert you’re following and tell it to create a prompt based on that expert’s advice. (Your OKR Hot Seat with that expert)
Point AI at a set of OKR experts and ask it to create a prompt to act as an OKR advisory board, weaving in the expertise/advice from the panel of experts.
Read an OKR-related book or take an OKR-related workshop, and take notes in the form of an AI prompt.
Whatever way you create this prompt, I like to save it as context, for example, as instructions or a file attached to a Perplexity space.
One of the advantages of this approach is that it works even when using an enterprise LLM, which is often more secure but weaker than publicly available ones.
Once you create the prompt wherever you want, you can take it inside the firewall and use it on your enterprise OKRs without the risk of sharing your strategy and priorities with a public large language model (LLM).
P.S. I’m sharing my ‘Fix Your OKRs’ AI prompts. Get them here
About Yuval Yeret
Yuval is a rare practitioner who has shaped the agility path of dozens of organizations and influenced the frameworks used across the industry. He helps product and technology leaders move from agile theater to evidence-informed, outcome-oriented delivery that creates better value sooner, safer, and happier.
