Tability Buyer's Guide
Hello! This guide will answer common questions about Tability to help you understand how our platform can help.
Why we made Tability
2 recent trends have changed the way high-performing teams are built:
Orgs are breaking down large groups into many small teams that can move rapidly (see Amazon's Two-Pizza Teams).
Async work is becoming the primary way to operate as teams are now remote or distributed. Even the companies returning to the office are hybrid in some form.
These 2 things put together have created a new world where alignment and focus matter more than ever. That is why we're seeing goal-setting frameworks like OKRs taking over: organisations are looking for a simple way to coordinate efforts at scale, and it's much easier to do so by talking about goals rather than reviewing the details of each project.
TL;DR: the future of work is goals-driven.
So, what's the issue?
Well. Teams have great tools for specs, design, code, projects, etc. But they're missing a place for goals.
As a result, you end up in situations where teams want to put outcomes at the center of collaboration, yet they don't have the means to do it – this is the problem that Tability solves.
Domain-specific platforms like Figma, Github, or Jira have allowed people to increase productivity and iterate quickly on outputs. Tability will help you do the same for strategy and outcomes to deliver outstanding results faster.
Who is Tability for?
While you can use Tability for yourself, we designed the platform with teams in mind. More specifically, Tability is designed to help distributed organisations increase accountability while drastically reducing the cost of reporting.
Whether you're a team of 20 people or an organisation with 100 teams of 20, Tability will give you all the tools required to align everyone, increase transparency, and reduce distractions to achieve your desired results.
Key benefits for leadership:
Single source of truth for goals and strategic updates
Establish standard practices across all teams
Get automated health digests in your inbox
Visualise progress trends and identify risks early
See how goals and strategic initiatives align across your org
Key benefits for team leads:
Save time with automated reminders, built-in dashboards, and data connectors
Get actionable insights to set better goals and improve execution
Easily share updates with stakeholders
Sync tasks with your project management tools
Get notified early when goals are going off-track
Key benefits for individual contributors:
Visualise the impact you have on team goals
Increase ownership of your work
Significantly reduce the time spent on reporting
Monitor progress on your company and team goals
Simplify status updates
Tability vs. other platforms
When choosing the right tool for goal tracking and OKR management, it's essential to consider how each option stacks up against the alternatives. In this section, we'll compare Tability with common tools like spreadsheets, docs, project management tools, and traditional OKR tools to help you understand why Tability could be the best choice for your needs.
Tability vs. spreadsheets (ex: Google Sheets, Airtable)
Ease of use: Unlike the often cumbersome and complex spreadsheets, Tability offers an intuitive interface, making goal tracking and OKR management accessible to everyone in your team.
Accurate status updates: Spreadsheets can quickly become outdated. Tability, on the other hand, provides real-time updates and insights, ensuring everyone is always aligned with the latest objectives.
Collaboration: Tability fosters seamless team collaboration. While spreadsheets can be challenging for multiple users to update simultaneously, Tability's collaborative features ensure that everyone stays on the same page.
Tability vs. docs (ex: Google Docs, Confluence, Notion)
Structured format: Tability offers a dedicated and structured format for managing goals, which general-purpose document tools lack. This structure ensures clarity and focus on objectives and key results.
Integration: Tability integrates effortlessly with other business tools, creating a connected and efficient workflow, unlike isolated document-based systems.
Visualisations: Tability will automatically generate progress charts and dashboards, allowing you to understand progress at a glance.
Tability vs. project management tools (ex: Jira, ClickUp, Asana)
Focus on goals: While project management tools offer a broad suite of features, Tability is tailored explicitly for goal management, ensuring a more focused and effective approach.
Simplicity and clarity: Project management tools can be overwhelming with features. Tability provides a simpler, more direct way of tracking OKRs, making it easier for teams to adopt and use effectively.
Accountability workflows: Unlike project management tools, Tability has built-in tools to nudge teams about weekly check-ins and ensure that everyone keeps in mind what matters the most.
Tability vs. Employee Performance Management Tools (15Five, Lattice)
Strategic alignment with goals: Tability is specifically designed for goal management. In contrast, employee performance management tools often focus more on evaluating past performance rather than aligning future objectives.
Real-time goal tracking: Unlike many performance management tools that assess employee performance periodically (e.g., quarterly or annually), Tability allows for continuous tracking and updating of objectives. This approach keeps teams agile and responsive to changes.
Collaboration and engagement: Tability encourages active collaboration and engagement among team members in setting and achieving goals. This contrasts with the more top-down approach of traditional performance management tools, where goals are often set and reviewed by managers alone.
Tability vs. traditional OKR tools (Quantive, Perdoo, Profit)
Ease of use: With a user-friendly interface, Tability makes setting up, tracking, and achieving OKRs a smoother experience compared to some traditional tools.
Mapping strategic initiatives: Tability makes it easy to connect goals to strategic projects, allowing you to create a rapid feedback loop between outcomes and outputs.
Cost-effectiveness: Tability offers competitive pricing, making it an affordable option without compromising on quality and functionality.
Pricing comparison
Tability can save you up to 80% compared to other tools that have goal-tracking capabilities.
In the table below you'll find a comparison of the monthly cost of Tability vs. several other options to track goals.
For each platform, we've picked the starting price that offers goal-tracking/OKRs capabilities. You'll see that our pricing stays competitive as you grow – even if you pick our Premium offering.
| Platform | Starting price | 25 users | 50 users | 100 users |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Tability Basic | $4/user/month | $100/month | $200/month | $400/month |
Tability Premium | $8/user/month | $200/month | $400/month | $800/month |
Profit | $9/user/month | $225/month | $450/month | $900/month |
Quantive | $9/user/month | $225/month | $450/month | $900/month |
15Five | $10/user/month | $250/month | $500/month | $1,000/month |
Lattice | $11/user/month | $275/month | $550/month | $1,100/month |
Asana | $30/user/month | $750/month | $1,500/month | $3,000/month |
Core features of Tability
Automated dashboards and reports
Tability has 10+ automated dashboards that will save your team hours at work. Each dashboard is designed for a specific persona and a specific use case. This approach allows every user to quickly find answers to their questions.
Accountability tools
The name of Tability comes from accountability. Tability has a set of tools built to help high performing teams reach great levels of transparency and accountability.
Goal-setting and goal-tracking AI
You can use Tability's AI features to improve your goals and generate a complete strategy that will match your objectives.
Goals and initiatives tracking
Tability will give you a simple way to understand:
The initiatives that are planned to achieve a specific goal
The goal that a specific initiative contributes to
While goal-management is the primary use of Tability, you will be able to organise and plan the work that needs to happen to achieve your objectives.
Integrations
Our integrations fall into 4 different categories:
Data connectors: automatically pull metrics data from your tools for your weekly check-ins
Embedded views: show Tability data inside of doc management platforms like Confluence or Notion
Project management sync: sync Tability initiatives to tasks in your project management platform
Communication tools: get check-ins reminders and health digest in your Slack channels
You can also leverage our public API to build your own integration!
Rolling out Tability
Choosing the right subscription
There are 3 different subscriptions available for Tability. You can read about the differences in Tability Basic vs. Plus vs. Premium, and you'll find below a simple recommendation.
| To learn OKRs | When growing adoption | For full scale transparency |
|---|---|---|
Tability Basic | Tability Plus | Tability Premium |
$4/seat/month | $5/seat/month | $8/seat/month |
Tability Basic includes core goal-setting and goal-tracking features to help you get started. It's the perfect subscription to get started with OKRs with a simple set of features. | Tability Plus will offer better capabilities to track goals with a team. We recommend Tability Plus if you want to start leveraging integrations and get the benefits of the team management features. | Tability Premium is for teams that need full transparency and visibility on progress. It offers additional reports and insights to quickly identify risks, as well as additional automation and APIs to scale your processes. |
Planning your rollout
Tability is easy to adopt and use, but rolling out a goal-setting framework like OKRs to an entire org often needs to be done in phases.
Our team can help you plan your rollout, and we have a set of onboarding programs designed to make your organisation successful as well as measure ROI.
Get in touch to discuss the best approach for your org!
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