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Oboard Bridges the Biggest Strategy Gap Enterprises Face Today

Tracking strategy can be easy for startups and small teams, with more direct lines between goals and work. But enterprise-level growth introduces layers of people, platforms, processes, and eventually, those clean strategy docs stop syncing with what’s happening on the ground.

Oboard’s latest release closes that loop. By adding native KPI tracking to its OKR (Objectives and Key Results)-based platform, the tool now gives teams a way to measure both strategic intent and day-to-day output without risking alignment and accountability.

KPI Tracking That Mirrors Real Work

With this update, KPIs no longer live in isolation from your strategy. Each one now sits inside Oboard as a dynamic module, complete with real-time values, visual status indicators, and contextual notes. That means no more toggling between tabs and platforms.

These cards aren’t just static dashboards. You can update values, mark completion, or annotate progress as it unfolds, all from the same workspace where your team tracks goals. And because Oboard treats KPIs as first-class citizens, you can either nest them within your OKRs or manage them separately, depending on how your team prefers to work.

Color-coded states (green, red, orange) make it easy to see where things stand at a glance. But the real strength lies in the flexibility: percentage targets, compliance scores, engagement benchmarks, whatever you’re tracking, Oboard adapts without forcing a one-size-fits-all mold.

Custom Metrics & Milestone-Based Tracking

Not every KPI fits neatly into a percentage or fixed-value goal. Campaigns evolve, growth is often stepwise, and sometimes success means hitting specific thresholds, rather than climbing steadily to 100%. That’s why Oboard now lets teams define custom metrics that reflect how progress unfolds per team.

You can now:

 

You can now:

 

  • Set thresholds like “maintain uptime above 99.5%” or “keep CAC under $60”
  • Break down big targets into milestones, each with a date and individual goal (think: “500 signups by week 2,” then “5,000 by end of quarter”)
  • Track performance within or outside OKRs, depending on how tightly your metrics are tied to your broader outcomes

And for teams catching up or backfilling results, you can log entries for any past date with the “Historical Updates” feature,  complete with notes and a full audit trail in the Progress History tab.

That means:

 

  • Data stays reliable
  • Audit prep gets easier
  • Everyone trusts what’s on screen

Custom Dashboards: One View That Fits All

Each team reviews strategy a little differently. Growth teams might want a funnel-focused dashboard. A product team might care about feature velocity. Leadership needs the big picture, not buried numbers. Oboard’s Custom Dashboards let you design around those real needs.

 

  • Drop the metrics, OKRs, and contextual notes that matter
  • Add context blocks that explain what numbers mean, not just what they are
  • Build separate layouts for different teams or reporting cadences: sprint recaps, QBRs, executive reviews, etc.
  • No more screenshots into slides. No more linking out to sheets. You keep your reporting where the strategy lives.

Strategic Takeaways for Leaders

The bigger your organization gets, the harder it becomes to keep strategy, metrics, and execution in sync. This update gives executives a consolidated workflow:

 

  • Vision (OKRs)
  • Metrics (KPIs & Custom Metrics)
  • Execution data (Milestones, Dashboards, Updates)

All in one space. Leadership can view how campaign-level metrics tie into outcomes, pivot faster when plans shift, and trust the trail of updates when reviewing progress at scale.

Conclusion

Oboard’s new KPI features are now live. If you’re part of a strategy team, PMO, or leadership group looking to tighten the loop between goals and execution, now’s the time to explore one of the best options available today.

NotebookLM comes to Ireland with support for websites, Slides and more

Last summer, Google introduced NotebookLM, an AI-powered research and writing assistant. Today, the business is bringing an upgraded version of NotebookLM — now using Gemini 1.5 Pro — to Ireland, along with over 200 countries and territories around the world.

Google’s goal from the beginning with NotebookLM has been to create a tool to help you understand and explore complex material, make new connections from information, and get to your first draft faster. You can upload sources — your research notes, interview transcripts, corporate documents — and instantly NotebookLM becomes an expert in the material that matters most to you. Today’s upgrade introduces several new features:

 

  • NotebookLM now supports Google Slides and web URLs as sources, along with Google Docs, PDFs and text files.

  • Inline citations now take you directly to supporting passages in your sources, so you can easily fact-check the AI response or dive deeper in the original text.

  • Notebook Guide gives you a high-level understanding of your sources by converting them into useful formats like FAQs, Briefing Docs, or Study Guides.

Thanks to Gemini 1.5 Pro’s native multimodal capabilities, you can now ask questions about images, charts and diagrams in your Slides or Docs. NotebookLM will even include citations to images as supporting evidence when relevant.

Case studies from real users

The range of uses that people are finding for NotebookLM has been incredible. Because NotebookLM was developed in close partnership with authors, students, and educators, many early adopters have integrated the product into research and writing workflows. Best-selling author Walter Isaacson has been working with NotebookLM to analyze Marie Curie’s journals for research on his next book. There has been similar enthusiasm from documentary and podcast researchers who need to sift through complex archives to generate scripts or story ideas. But the combination of Gemini 1.5 Pro’s advanced reasoning abilities and NotebookLM’s source-grounding architecture has unlocked many other potential applications:

 

  • In local governance, Thomas Gaume created a hyperlocal newsletter, aggregating city ordinances, land use data, zoning codes, and council meeting minutes. NotebookLM empowered him to be a “one-person newsroom and publisher”.

  • NotebookLM’s ability to summarize and adapt interview transcripts is helping users identify patterns and themes in raw transcripts, saving hours of manual analysis. For example, consultant Victor Adefuye uses NotebookLM to analyze sales call transcripts for targeted training and coaching.

  • Nonprofits have deployed NotebookLM to help them identify needs in underserved communities and organize information for grant proposals.

Some less than expected and playful use cases have also been noticed with the help of the 14,000 member Discord community, including:

  • Role-playing game enthusiasts use NotebookLM to manage detailed descriptions of fantasy worlds in games like Dungeons and Dragons.

Getting started

If you’re new to NotebookLM, getting started is easy: When you first access NotebookLM, you’ll create a notebook and upload documents for a specific project or deliverable. At that point you can read, take notes, ask questions, organize your ideas, or ask NotebookLM to create automatic overviews of all your sources—a study guide, for example, or a table of contents.

Whether it’s being used to build imaginary worlds, write bestselling biographies, or help salespeople find new customers, NotebookLM has given U.S. users powerful tools for making connections and generating insights out of large collections of documents.