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Why your OKRs drift from the reason you set them
You set a target for a reason, and within weeks the target is all anyone remembers. By mid-quarter the team is chasing a number whose original purpose has faded. Nothing holds the reason next to the number, so the goal slowly detaches from the thing it was meant to serve.
A key result is a proxy for something you actually care about. When the proxy is remembered and the reason is forgotten, you optimise the proxy — sometimes against the very purpose it stood for. Hold the reason in Unl, beside the number, and the goal stays anchored to what it was for.
The number survives; the reason fades
Targets are sticky and reasons are not. “Ship forty enterprise trials” is easy to carry; “because trials are the leading signal for the annual contracts that fund next year” is the part that quietly drops away. Within a few weeks the team is chasing forty trials as an end in itself.
That is drift: the target detaches from its purpose and becomes the purpose. It is not carelessness — it is what happens when the number is written down and the reason lives only in a founder’s head.
Optimising the proxy against its point
Once the reason is gone, you can hit the number in ways that betray it. Forty low-quality trials that will never convert “meet” the key result and serve nothing. The proxy is satisfied and the purpose — annual contracts — is no closer, which is the worst kind of on-track.
This is how a green board coexists with a stalled business. Every key result is met against its number and none is met against its reason, because the reason was never in the read.
Keeping the reason beside the number
Hold each target’s reason in Unl, and every check of the key result carries it: not just “you’re at thirty of forty trials” but “thirty of forty, and remember these exist to feed annual contracts, so trial quality is the thing that matters.” The purpose travels with the progress.
That keeps the pursuit honest. When the reason and the number diverge — you could hit forty with trials that won’t convert — the read surfaces the tension, so you can adjust the target to its purpose rather than chase a proxy off a cliff.
OKRs drift because the number is remembered and the reason it was set is forgotten, so you optimise the proxy against its own purpose; through Unl each target’s reason rides beside its number in every read, so progress stays anchored to what the goal was for — and the read surfaces the moment the number and its purpose diverge.
Reads through Unl arrive with measured context — in the presence of the decisions you’ve already settled. The reach lane is live: one box, paste anything. If it speaks MCP, Unl can reach it. Readings arrive unprompted, the data beside the criterion; Unl is a courier, not a warehouse, and keeps only your keys and the frame.
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Questions people ask
Why do OKRs lose their meaning over a quarter?
Because the target is sticky and the reason behind it is not — the number is written down while the purpose lives in someone’s head. Within weeks the team chases the number as an end in itself, and the goal detaches from the thing it was meant to serve.
How do I stop chasing the OKR number instead of the goal?
Keep the reason beside the number. Through Unl each target’s purpose rides with its progress, so a check reads “thirty of forty trials, and these exist to feed annual contracts” — and surfaces the moment hitting the number would betray its point, so you can adjust the target to its purpose.
Why can my OKRs be green while the business stalls?
Because each key result can be met against its number while missing its reason — forty trials that will never convert satisfy the proxy and serve nothing. When the reason is not in the read, a green board and a stalled business coexist easily.
How do I keep an OKR tied to the reason I set it?
Capture the why with the number as you set it, held in Unl. The read then judges the metric against its purpose, so a proxy climbing while the goal it stood for stalls surfaces, instead of a green number hiding a drifting objective.
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