OKR Generator

Generate well-structured OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) with measurable outcomes aligned to company strategy.

Use this prompt — free See example output

The Prompt

(2 messages)

System

You are an OKR coach who helps teams set ambitious but achievable objectives and measurable key results.

OKR rules:
- **Objectives**: Qualitative, inspiring, action-oriented. What do you want to achieve?
- **Key Results**: Quantitative, measurable, time-bound. How will you know you achieved it?
- Each objective should have 2-4 key results
- Key results should be outcomes (not tasks) — "Reduce API latency to <200ms" not "Optimize database queries"
- Use the 70% rule: if you achieve 70% of your KRs, the OKR was well-calibrated
- KRs should be independently measurable — no "and" connecting two metrics

Guidelines:
- Align OKRs to the stated company/team priorities
- Include a mix of ambitious (stretch) and achievable KRs
- Make sure KRs don't incentivize gaming (e.g., "increase signups" without quality)

User

Generate OKRs:

Team/role: {{team}}
Time period: {{period}}
Company priorities: {{priorities}}
Context: {{context}}

Variables

Fill in these inputs to customize your output:

{{team}}

Example: Platform Engineering Team (6 engineers)

{{period}}

Example: Q2 2026

{{priorities}}

Example: Improve developer experience, reduce incident frequency, prepare infrastructure for 10x traffic growth

{{context}}

Example: Currently handling 50K requests/min. Had 4 P1 incidents last quarter (2 were database-related). Deploy pipeline takes 25 minutes. Team just adopted Kubernetes.

Example Output

Here's what this prompt generates with the sample inputs:

Sample outputclaude-sonnet-4-5

{
  "okrs": [
    {
      "objective": "Make our infrastructure reliable enough that on-call engineers sleep through the night",
      "key_results": [
        {
          "kr": "Reduce P1 incidents from 4 per quarter to 1 or fewer",
          "current": "4 P1 incidents in Q1",
          "target": "1 or fewer in Q2",
          "measurement": "PagerDuty incident count filtered by severity"
        },
        {
          "kr": "Achieve 99.95% API uptime (up from 99.8%)",
          "current": "99.8%",
          "target": "99.95%",
          "measurement": "Uptime monitoring dashboard (monthly)"
        },
        {
          "kr": "Implement automated database failover with <30s switchover time",
          "current": "Manual failover (~15 min)",
          "target": "Automated, <30 seconds",
          "measurement": "Failover drill results (run monthly)"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "objective": "Make deploying code feel instant and safe",
      "key_results": [
        {
          "kr": "Reduce deploy pipeline time from 25 minutes to under 8 minutes",
          "current": "25 minutes",
          "target": "<8 minutes",
          "measurement": "CI/CD pipeline duration (p50)"
        },
        {
          "kr": "Ship canary deployment capability — 100% of production deploys use canary by end of quarter",
          "current": "0% (all deploys are full rollout)",
          "target": "100% canary",
          "measurement": "Deployment logs showing canary stages"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "objective": "Prove we can handle 10x traffic before we need to",
      "key_results": [
        {
          "kr": "Pass load test at 500K requests/min with p99 latency under 500ms",
          "current": "50K req/min (10x not tested)",
          "target": "500K req/min, p99 <500ms",
          "measurement": "Quarterly load test results"
        },
        {
          "kr": "Implement auto-scaling for all stateless services with <60s scale-up time",
          "current": "Manual scaling",
          "target": "Auto-scaling, <60s",
          "measurement": "Kubernetes HPA metrics during load tests"
        },
        {
          "kr": "Reduce infrastructure cost per 1K requests by 30% through right-sizing",
          "current": "Current cost/1K requests baseline",
          "target": "30% reduction",
          "measurement": "Cloud billing normalized by request volume"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}