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OKR software in Mauritius that does the chasing for you.

Every team's objectives line up with the company's, updates take about a minute, and Okra follows up for you, so managers no longer chase people for numbers.

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Illustration · Every team's objectives, linked to the company's and kept up to date. An illustration of a company objective with three team objectives linked under it, one being updated and one needing an update.
  • Built and run in Mauritius
  • Data stored in AWS Cape Town
  • Scores goals, never people
  • Isolation tested before every release
  • English and French
  • Invoices in rupees, with VAT

What Okra does

What changes for your teams, in five pictures.

IllustrationEveryone alignedEach team's objectives link up to the company's, so people see how their work counts. An illustration of team objectives linking up to the company's.
IllustrationUpdates in a minuteA short update keeps each objective current and takes about a minute. An illustration of progress moving forward as an update is made.
IllustrationA coach at your sideTurn a goal into key results worth measuring, with suggestions you are free to take or leave. An illustration of the coach suggesting key results for a goal.
IllustrationNobody has to chaseWhen an objective stops being updated, Okra sends a reminder, so managers do not have to ask. An illustration of an objective that needs an update being flagged, and a reminder bell ringing.
IllustrationThe week at a glanceA short summary of what needs you, so nothing slips between meetings. An illustration of a weekly summary whose lines update.

These are illustrations, not screenshots. The tour below goes through five parts of Okra, and a walkthrough shows you the real thing with your own objectives.

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A closer look at Okra

Five parts of Okra, and what each one changes. The tour moves on by itself every few seconds; pause it at any time.

Illustration · Every objective in one tree, from the company down. An illustration of objectives linked from the company down to its teams.

One tree, from the company down

  • Everyone starts from the same company objectives.
  • Teams link their objectives to the company's, so nothing is copied or retyped.
  • Leaders see at a glance what is moving and what needs help.
Illustration · Short updates, so progress stays current. An illustration of a list of key results, nearly all up to date, and one update just done.

A check-in in about a minute

  • People update their own progress, with no meeting needed.
  • Everyone can tell at once what is current and what is out of date.
  • Built for Microsoft Teams and switched on during onboarding; the same check-in works on the web today.
Illustration · Suggestions that help you write key results worth measuring. An illustration of a goal and the key results the coach suggests for it.

The coach proposes, you decide

  • Help turning a goal into key results that can really be measured.
  • You stay in charge: nothing is saved until you say so.
  • It works with your permissions and sees only what you can see.
Illustration · A review that starts from where things stand. An illustration of a meeting prepared from the current state of each objective.

Meetings that start from the facts

  • Everyone arrives knowing what has moved and what needs a decision.
  • Decisions and actions stay with the objectives they concern.
  • Less time collecting numbers, more time deciding.
Illustration · Answers in plain words, each with its sources. An illustration of a question, its answer and the sources the answer is based on.

Ask a question, see the sources

  • Ask about the objectives and key results you can see.
  • Every answer shows where it comes from.
  • The AI can be switched off for the whole organisation, or for some roles only.

OKRs fade quietly when nobody updates them

The goals live in a slide deck and the updates in a spreadsheet nobody opens, so the review is spent asking for figures instead of discussing them. Okra keeps it all in one place and shows what nobody has updated.

Without Okra

  • Goals in a deck, updates in a spreadsheet
  • Managers chase people for numbers
  • The review deck is rebuilt the night before
  • Nobody knows which objective is stale

With Okra

  • Every objective linked in one tree, from the company down
  • A check-in made to take about a minute
  • The review opens on live numbers
  • Objectives that need an update stand out at once

OKRs are not appraisals.

Okra scores goals, never people: no ratings, no rankings, no pay data and no performance reviews. That is what makes it safe to set objectives that stretch.

Do individual objectives count in team scores?
No. An objective's score comes only from its own key results: a team objective's score never includes the individual objectives linked under it.
Who can see a person's objectives?
Each objective has its own visibility: private, team, department, leadership or the whole organisation. A private objective is hidden from colleagues. It is seen by its owner and co-owners, anyone who owns one of its key results, the owner's line of management, the heads of its unit and of the units above, the leaders who run the OKR programme, and auditors within their scope; an administrator's full data export includes it too. Company objectives are always visible to everyone. Where someone may not see an objective, the tree shows only a count, never what it says.
Does the assistant judge people?
No. It never rates people, never compares colleagues and never writes performance-review content.
Does Okra hold ratings or pay?
No. About a person, Okra holds directory details such as name, job title, department and manager, next to their objectives and check-ins. There is nowhere to store a rating, a ranking or pay.

Bring your HR director to the walkthrough: we will show what Okra records, and what it leaves out.Talk to us

OKR software in Mauritius, built for Microsoft 365 and Teams

Okra is not an HR suite with an OKR module. It does OKRs, and only OKRs, for organisations that already run on Microsoft 365.

Built for Microsoft Entra ID
Everyone signs in with the Microsoft account they already have, under your sign-in policy, and your people, managers and departments come from your directory. Both are switched on for your organisation during onboarding.
Built for Microsoft Teams
A Microsoft Teams app has been built, so people can update their objectives where they already work. It is switched on for your organisation during onboarding.
Complete on the web today
Everything Okra does works in the browser, on a computer or a phone, with nothing to install.
Illustration · The same update on the web, and in Teams once it is switched on. An illustration of the same update in a browser and in a chat app.

The questions your IT team will ask

Okra runs only on managed AWS services: Fargate, RDS, Cognito, Bedrock, SQS and EventBridge, with no servers of our own to run. For the rest, short answers, exceptions included.

Where is our data stored?
In AWS Africa (Cape Town). In production, an encrypted copy of the daily database backup is also kept in AWS Europe (Ireland) for 35 days. It is used only to recover from a regional disaster.
Where do AI requests go?
To Amazon Bedrock, where they may be processed briefly in other AWS regions. They are not kept there. Okra records that a request was made, and keeps its text only if an administrator turns that on.
Can another organisation reach our data?
Isolation between organisations is tested, not assumed. Before every release, automated attack tests sign in as one organisation and try to reach another's data through every endpoint. A release that fails them does not ship.
Who changed what, and when?
Every change to objectives, key results, check-ins, approvals, visibility, roles and settings is recorded: who, what and when. A change the assistant proposed is recorded with the person who confirmed it. The record cannot be edited or deleted.
Can we take our data with us?
Yes. Your data stays yours: an administrator can export all of it, audit trail included, in CSV and JSON, at any time.
Can our people work in French?
Yes. Every screen is in English and French, and each person switches with one click. The assistant answers in your language.

Show it to your leadership team.

A 30-minute walkthrough with your own objectives, and free migration when you are ready.

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Or write to r.ballgobin@okra.mu

When you write to Okra, you reach the person who builds it.

What happens next

  1. A 30-minute walkthrough

    We show you Okra with your own objectives: the tree, the weekly check-in, and the coach on one of them.

  2. A quote for your organisation

    We send it after the walkthrough.

  3. Free migration

    Send us your objectives as they are today, in a spreadsheet, a slide deck or another OKR tool, and we set them up in Okra with you, at no charge.

Who is behind Okra

Okra is built and run in Mauritius by a founder you can meet in person.

Founder
Ramkrish Pathak Ballgobin
Company
Okra
Based in
Mauritius
Onboarding
On site in Mauritius
Support
During Mauritius business hours
Invoices
In Mauritian rupees, with VAT