Rhythms

Master the OKR framework in Rhythms: Objectives that inspire, Key Results that measure, and Initiatives that drive action. Learn best practices, understand progress tracking, and avoid common mistakes when setting…

Introduction to OKRs

This step-by-step guide shows you how to navigate the dashboard, monitor progress, and leverage key features for strategic alignment.

Navigating the Rhythms OKR Platform: A Comprehensive Overview

Guides for how to create and manage OKRs and Initiatives in Rhythms

Create and Manage OKRs and Initiatives

Create OKRs in Rhythms through natural conversation, traditional forms, or strategy document upload. Rhythms' AI helps you develop well-structured goals by analyzing your context and suggesting improvements. Choose the method…

Creating OKRs and Initiatives in Rhythms

Overview of Metric Types available in Rhythms and 'How to' guide for configuration

Understanding Metric Types in Rhythms

How visibility settings work for Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) in Rhythms

OKR Visibility — Who can see an OKR

Assign team members as delegates to keep your OKRs current while you retain ownership. Delegates update progress, manage details, and maintain alignment. Support multiple delegates per OKR with chat-based assignment…

Assign Delegates: Keep OKRs Current Without Being the Bottleneck

Guides for how to create OKRs and Initiatives in Rhythms

Planning and Creation

Guide to connecting tools to OKRs and Initiatives to enable auto updates

How to Set Up Auto-Updates

Integrate Jira with Rhythms to automate progress tracking for your Key Results (KRs).

Setting up Jira Integration in Rhythms

A step-by-step guide to using the Excel Online integration for OKR Check-ins

Excel Online Integration for OKR Check-ins

A step-by-step guide to using the PowerBI integration for OKR Check-ins

PowerBI Integration for OKR Check-ins

Guide to setting up auto-updates using Google Sheets

Setting Up Auto-Updates with Google Sheets

Track OKR progress automatically from Azure DevOps work items. Rhythms intelligently calculates completion percentages and story point totals so your strategic goals reflect actual delivery without manual data entry.

Setting up Azure DevOps connections in Rhythms via MCP

Connect Jira issues to Key Results and Initiatives for automatic progress tracking. Set up using natural language, track issue counts, completion percentages, story points, or time estimates. Updates daily at…

Setting Up Auto-Updates with Atlassian via MCP

Track Monday.com board progress in your OKRs with automated daily updates. AI-guided setup helps you find boards, choose tracking methods (item or column completion), and filter by groups, assignees, or…

Setting Up Auto-Updates with Monday.com via MCP

Connect Linear issues to Key Results with advanced filtering by priority, labels, teams, and time. Track completion, story points, resolution times, and weighted metrics. Daily sync at 3 AM UTC.

Setting Up Auto-Updates with Linear via MCP

Automatically update Key Results from PowerBI datasets, reports, and scorecards. Describe what you want to track in plain language, and Rhythms syncs your metrics daily without manual data entry.

Setting Up Auto-Updates with PowerBI via MCP

Track Microsoft Planner tasks in your OKRs with automated daily updates. AI-guided setup helps you find plans, choose tracking methods (task or checklist completion), and filter by buckets or team…

Setting Up Auto-Updates with Microsoft Planner via MCP

Connect HubSpot to automatically track CRM metrics in your Key Results. Monitor pipeline revenue, contact growth, and deal progression with daily updates from your HubSpot data.

Setting Up Auto-Updates with HubSpot via MCP

Track Smartsheet metrics automatically in your Key Results. Connect sheets to calculate completion rates, filtered counts, time-based velocity, and multi-field logic without manual updates. Supports complex conditions across any columns.

Setting Up Auto-Updates with Smartsheet via MCP

Guides for how to connect OKRs and Initiatives to other tools

Integrations to Support Automatic Updates

Learn how to structure OKRs across organizational levels and time periods. Covers when to use annual vs quarterly goals, how to create clean hierarchies, and connecting strategy to daily work…

OKR Alignment and Time Horizons: Building Effective Goal Hierarchies

Learn how to structure annual goals with quarterly breakdowns. Discover when to use quarterly sub-Key Results versus full quarterly OKRs, and whether to track progress through alignment or weighted contribution…

Breaking Down Annual OKRs into Quarterly Goals: A Decision Framework

Guide for OKR program administrators on choosing organizational models, diagnosing structural problems, coaching team leaders, and determining which configuration settings your organization needs.

Designing Your Organization's OKR Model

Drag and drop to prioritize your Child Objectives, Key Results, and Initiatives

Reordering Child Objectives, Key Results, and Initiatives in Rhythms

Guides for how to align OKRs and manage display order

Alignment and Structure

A guide to managing and submitting OKR check-ins on Rhythms to keep your team aligned, track progress, and identify obstacles early

Effective Check-ins to Track OKR Progress in Rhythms

Automatic rollup keeps parent OKRs current by aggregating child progress and computing time-based status. Eliminate manual updates and get real-time visibility into goal health. Learn when to use automatic vs.…

Understanding OKR Automatic Rollup

Rhythms intelligently determines whether to sum or average child progress based on your goals' semantic meaning. See how AI calculates parent progress for revenue goals, hiring targets, and strategic initiatives—automatically,…

Intelligent Progress Rollup: How Rhythms Calculates Parent Progress

Understand how automatic status rollup tracks parent OKR health. See how Rhythms determines On Track, Behind, or At Risk status by comparing progress to time-based expectations, and when to override…

Automatic Status Rollup for Parent OKRs

Guide to when and how to close and score an OKR or Initiative

Closing and Scoring OKRs

Guides for how to conduct effective checkins on OKRs and Initiatives

Tracking Progress

Priorities change, and your OKRs should too. Learn how to update owners, teams, timeframes, alignment, and metrics as your organization evolves. Understand which changes to make carefully and when creating…

Managing and Updating OKRs in Rhythms

A step-by-step guide to deleting objectives in Rhythms

How to Delete OKRs in Rhythms

Guides for how to update or delete OKRs and Initiatives

Making Changes

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