One OKR cycle in spreadsheets. It worked — but only because the founder chased every update personally.
Mahir read Measure What Matters and decided OKRs were the answer for Trillium, his global cybersecurity company. He ran the first cycle on spreadsheets across 105 people. And it worked — sort of.
People updated their OKRs, but only when Mahir followed up individually. Every week. Every person. He'd become the single point of failure for the entire organisation's OKR process.
Enterprise OKR software was off the table. Spreadsheets had already failed.
Trillium was still scaling. Enterprise OKR platforms meant procurement cycles, implementation projects, and per-user fees that didn't make sense at their stage. But spreadsheets had proven they couldn't hold the weight of a 100-person organisation without someone manually driving every update.
Mahir needed something with no learning curve, no implementation project, and no founder bottleneck. A tool simple enough that 130 people could use it without training, but structured enough to hold the whole organisation's goals.
250 OKRs migrated. Whole org live. Same day.
Mahir found OKRs Tool and reached out. The team imported all 250 OKRs from his spreadsheets and set up the full user list as part of concierge onboarding. Trillium subscribed to the Scale plan on day one.
Nobody needed training. The system was already structured and ready when the team logged in for the first time. Goals, key results, owners, cycles — all already in place. People just started updating.
By January 2026, as Trillium grew from 105 to 130 users, they upgraded to Expand for unlimited cycles, the alignment map, and performance reviews.
130 people. Zero training. No founder chasing updates.
Mahir is no longer the bottleneck. The tool prompts people, the structure persists across cycles, and OKR adoption is just part of how Trillium works now — not something the founder has to maintain through manual effort.
