What Run Hoshin does

Goals, A3s and one-on-ones on one dated record

Run Hoshin keeps your company's goals, reviews and decisions as dated rows, with who made each one and when. A change adds a new dated row, so you can see what was agreed and what happened after.

What the first version includes

Eight-step A3s with loops

Each step opens only after your supervisor signs off the step before it. You can't sign off your own step.

Not every task needs an A3. Use one for a gap whose cause you don't yet know. A known task can be an action on a step of an A3 you already hold.

After step 8, the A3 loops back to step 4 for the next point of occurrence, against the same goal.

An A3 at step 6 of 8: the step strip with dated sign-offs, and the plan on step 6 with who holds it and how it is going. — Sample data, Corbel Ridge Manufacturing (fictional). Select an image to open it at full size.

One-on-ones with Approve

A one-on-one shows a summary of what changed. You add comments and private notes. One Approve marks it as held.

Nobody else in your company reads a private note. Our staff can read one only inside a logged visit, and each read goes on your company's record.

The start of a one-on-one: one person's gaps, off plan first, each with its rating and due date.

Objectives with dated wording

The top seat and admins write the company's objectives in words and hand them to direct reports. An objective arrives as step 1 of that person's A3.

When the words need to change, the seat above writes a new version and says why. The earlier words stay in the history.

One company objective, in words, handed down to two direct reports, each with their own A3.

KPI board with CSV import

Each person sees their own goal, the latest reading, and the goals they set below. People type readings in, or an admin imports them from a CSV file.

Every goal needs a date.

A KPI with its reading history open: each reading, its date, and who entered it.

Reports with CSV

See today's view or any period. You can print a report or download it as a CSV file.

Deeper in a period report: work handed down, its root cause, and a countermeasure, each with who and when.

Org-chart import

A company admin imports the org chart from a CSV file, onto numbered seats. Adding people to seats sends nothing. An admin then invites people from the People & logins page.

Whole-company export

A company admin can download the company's data as one NDJSON file at any time, with one JSON record on each line. The file suits a developer or another program, not a spreadsheet. It holds what that admin can read, so private notes other people wrote stay out.

An admin can also ask to delete the company, after a 30-day wait.

The export card: what the file holds and what it leaves out. The download is turned off in the demo.

Vendor access you can see

Nobody from Run Hoshin enters your company without your consent. Each visit goes on your company's own record: who came, when they entered and left, whose work they viewed or changed, and each private note they opened. Your admins can read that record. It says that a change was made, not what changed.

The vendor access page: the company's consent, and the first lines of its record of who was there.

Compared with your spreadsheets

A spreadsheet holds the same words and numbers. Here is what changes, and what doesn't.

Topic	In a spreadsheet	In the app
Sign-offs	A cell anyone with the file can type in.	A step opens only after the supervisor signs off the step before it.
Who can read what	Anyone with the file reads all of it, unless you split it up.	You read your seat and the seats below you. The database enforces this, with one known limit.
History	Someone can overwrite last month's words.	A change adds a new dated row, with who made it.
Readings	You type them, or paste them from your systems.	The same. You type them, or an admin imports a CSV file.
Math and charts	Formulas and charts do what you build.	None. The app computes no rollup and draws no chart.

What Run Hoshin does not do yet

You should know this before you start a trial. We publish no roadmap and no dates for these items, so don't plan on any of them.

The app covers the deploy, implement and review parts of a Hoshin cycle. It doesn't cover long-range planning or the year-end reset. You do those outside the app.

Hoshin forms and meetings

X-matrix. The app has no X-matrix screen and no place for long-range or breakthrough objectives. The free X-matrix builder makes one, but the app can't import that file, so you retype each objective.
Bowling chart. The app has no bowling chart screen and no target for each period. A goal holds one number and one date. Its light stays red until the latest reading meets that number, even while the reading improves. Past readings show as a list, with no trend chart.
Catchball. The app has no catchball tracking. You hold that talk in person. The app records the agreed words, not the offers, counters or asks.
Review meeting. The app has no meeting screen for a monthly or quarterly review. The one-on-one is the only meeting it holds. For a review, you print a report or download a CSV file.
Lateral hand-downs. The app refuses a hand-down to a peer, or one that skips a level. It has no place to record a dependency between peers, so you agree on those outside the app. No setting lets peers read each other's work.
One-sheet A3. On screen, an A3 is a stack of steps, not one sheet, and the app has no one-page print view. It has no file attachments, charts or photos, so you type your data into the steps. You rank countermeasures in words, and the app computes no risk score.

Numbers and people

Number math. The app records numbers as people type or import them. It doesn't compute a rollup of numbers, and it doesn't check that the goals below add up to the goal above.
Org chart shapes. One person holds one seat at a time, and each seat reports to one seat above. The app has no dotted lines and no way to hand your sign-offs to a stand-in. When a supervisor is away or a seat is empty, a company admin can sign off instead.
AI coach. The app has no AI coach and no other AI feature.

Access, data and payment

SSO and SOC 2. The app has no SSO, and we have no SOC 2 report. A company admin can't require two-step sign-in for everyone.
Mobile apps. The app has no native mobile apps.
Integrations. The app has no integrations with ERP or HR systems, and no public API. You bring in KPI readings and your org chart as CSV files.
Readable export. The whole-company export is one NDJSON file, which suits a developer or another program, not a spreadsheet. Reports download as CSV files.
A second company. One email address holds one login, so you can't use the same address for a second company.
Payment. You can't pay yet. Checkout stays hidden until we open it. See when the trial ends.

See it for yourself

The demo needs no login. In a trial, you can load fictional sample data or import your own org chart.

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