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Outgrew spreadsheets

Your spreadsheet worked for years. At 60 people, <strong>it's breaking down.</strong>

The spreadsheet that tracked goals for your first 40 hires is now a liability. Tabs multiply, owners vanish, and nobody trusts the data anymore — here's <strong>how to fix it this week.</strong>

For: VPs & Heads of Department Company size: 51–200 Time to ship: One afternoon Reading time: 8 min
TL;DR

Spreadsheets hit a wall around 60 employees. Version conflicts multiply, ownership gets fuzzy, and leadership stops trusting the data. You don't need a six-month rollout or an IT project — you need a tool that imports your existing OKRs, enforces one owner per Key Result, and sends weekly nudges so you're not chasing people. <strong>OKRs Tool sets up in an afternoon</strong> and costs $49/mo flat for teams of 6–50.

The situation

<p>The spreadsheet wasn't a bad choice. It was the right tool when you had 20 people and one team lead could eyeball every row. But somewhere between 50 and 70 employees, the cracks become fractures. Someone overwrites a formula. Two people edit the same cell. The "owner" column has three names or none.</p><p>Now your leadership meeting starts with 15 minutes of "wait, is this number current?" instead of actual decisions. Your direct reports update their sections inconsistently — some weekly, some never. And you're spending hours each quarter just reformatting tabs and chasing status updates.</p><p>This isn't a discipline problem. It's a tool problem. Spreadsheets weren't designed for 60 people to collaborate on accountability in real time.</p>

Your four <strong>options</strong>

The <strong>playbook</strong>

    Real example · Trillium
    We imported over 200 OKRs on day one. The spreadsheet we'd been using couldn't handle our growth past 150 people — too many tabs, too many owners, too much confusion about what was current.
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    Mahir
    Founder, Trillium · 150 people, cybersecurity
    What this looks like in OKRs Tool

    Everything your spreadsheet couldn't do <strong>past 60 people</strong>

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