Tasks / Metrics & Experimentation

Draft OKRs

Can the model turn a team's wish list into a few outcome-based OKRs that add up to the company's goals?

Task type v1.1 · 2 tasksLast changed 6 Oct 2026 · ChangelogDifficulty

What AI gets right here, and what you’ll still have to catch

From 18 graded outputs by 9 models. 50% were usable with at most a quick edit.

Reliably right

  1. Builds the key results on the data100% pass
    Key results 2 and 3 are built directly on the first-week joining data and time-to-shared-note data, with baselines from the brief and targets.
    GPT-6.1 Sol · API · Eleven key results and a bonus
  2. Respects explicit constraints99% pass
    The output is a memo to Grace Mensah, within the 1,100-word limit, and includes the requested diagnosis and team OKRs with baselines and targets.
    GPT-6 Astra · ChatGPT · A great quarter, on paper
  3. Produces the required deliverable99% pass
    The memo is complete, in the right form for the CPO, and a PM could act on it with only light edits.
    GPT-6 Astra · ChatGPT · A great quarter, on paper

Where it slips

  1. Flags the bonus link47% pass
    Mentions bonus multipliers only to justify outcome KRs; does not name the risk of safe targets or suggest decoupling OKR scores from bonuses.
    Haiku 5.5 · API · Eleven key results and a bonus
  2. Avoids unsupported claims67% pass
    Presents 'the gap is correlation' and 'the safe play is to pick easy KRs' as facts without labeling them as hypotheses.
    Sonnet 5.5 · API · Eleven key results and a bonus
  3. Identifies material uncertainty68% pass
    The output does not name any specific unknowns that could change the OKRs or how they would be resolved.
    GPT-6 Luna · API · Eleven key results and a bonus

How it’s graded

Each check is built on how world-class product and growth leaders do this work, as they’ve described it on Lenny’s Podcast, and names the leader it comes from.

  1. Key results are outcomes, not output

    Is every key result a measurable change in customer or business behaviour, rather than something the team will ship or do?

    Passes when Every key result names a metric with a baseline and a target; shipping work appears only as initiatives that serve them.

  2. Focuses on the big rock

    Does the output cut the goals down to the few that matter most, rather than covering everything the team could do?

    Passes when Few objectives, each with a small number of key results, and says what was dropped and why.

  3. Shows how the goals add up

    Does the output show how each team-level key result contributes to the company-level goals, and flag any that don't?

    Passes when Every key result is linked to a company goal, with the reasoning or data that connects them, and any that serve no company goal are flagged or cut.

Plus our standard checks

Uses the supplied evidence correctly · Addresses the actual decision · Respects explicit constraints · Identifies material uncertainty · Avoids unsupported claims · Produces the required deliverable · and 2 written for each task, which you’ll see in the tasks below.

The tasks

Read the brief, then compare up to three outputs, each with the LLM judge’s verdict on every check. Highlights mark what a PM had to fix.

The brief

You're a Staff PM at Pathwise, working for the CPO, Grace Mensah. Last quarter's OKR scorecard is below, along with the company goal it was meant to serve. Grace wants a memo of no more than 1,100 words: what last quarter's OKRs actually tell us (not just the scores), and next quarter's OKRs for the Learner app, Admin and Growth teams, each with baselines and targets, that add up to the company goal.\n\nThe files are attached.

What the model was given5 items: About Pathwise, company_okr_q3.md, okr_scorecard_q3.csv (team_label is the type each team gave its key result), metric_dictionary.md, churn_reasons_q3.md
About PathwiseOnline learning for companies: courses employees take, and tools for the HR and L&D teams who buy it. Sold per seat on annual contracts.
company_okr_q3.md7 lines · Download
# Company OKR, Q3 (set by the CEO)

Objective: grow by keeping and expanding the customers we have.
- Net revenue retention: from 103% to 108%. Actual: 102%.
- Quarterly logo churn: from 3.1% to 2.5%. Actual: 3.4%.

Q3 average key result score across product teams: 0.81. The all-hands slide said "a great quarter".
okr_scorecard_q3.csv (team_label is the type each team gave its key result)team,objective,key_result,team_label,baseline,target,actual,score Content,Best course library in L&D,Publish 40 new courses,output,0,40,41,1.00 Content,Best course library in L&D,Course completion rate,outcome,41,55,58,1.00 Content,Best course library in L&D,Translate top 20 courses into 3 languages,output,0,60,60,1.00 Learner app,Learning people love,Ship mobile offline mode,output,0,1,1,1.00 Learner app,Learning people love,Weekly active learners per seat,outcome,0.31,0.4,0.29,0.00 Learner app,Learning people love,Ship streaks and badges,output,0,1,1,1.00 Learner app,Learning people love,App store rating,outcome,4.2,4.6,4.5,0.75 Admin,Admins get value fast,Launch 3 HRIS integrations,outcome,0,3,3,1.00 Admin,Admins get value fast,Days from contract to first learner,outcome,34,14,31,0.15 Admin,Admins get value fast,Ship new reporting dashboard,output,0,1,1,1.00 Growth,Expand inside accounts,Seats added in existing accounts,outcome,9200,14000,8100,0.00 Growth,Expand inside accounts,Run 12 expansion experiments,output,0,12,13,1.00 Growth,Expand inside accounts,Launch in-app upgrade prompts,output,0,1,1,1.00 Platform,Reliable at scale,Uptime,outcome,99.5,99.9,99.93,1.00 Platform,Reliable at scale,Migrate to new video CDN,output,0,1,1,1.00 Platform,Reliable at scale,Close 150 bugs,output,0,150,162,1.00
metric_dictionary.md5 lines · Download
# Metric dictionary (excerpt)

- Course completion rate: share of course enrolments marked complete. Until 31 July "complete" meant every module finished. From 1 August it means 80% of modules finished (changed so completion matches the certificate rule).
- Weekly active learners per seat: learners who start or continue a course in a week, divided by paid seats.
- Days from contract to first learner: calendar days from contract signature to the first learner starting a course.
churn_reasons_q3.md8 lines · Download
# Why accounts left in Q3 (exit interviews, 38 accounts)

- "Our people didn't use it": 17
- Budget cut: 9
- Moved to the LMS that came with our HR system: 7
- Content didn't fit our industry: 5

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What a strong answer doesThe answer key the graders mark against

Reads the scorecard for what it is: the average is 0.81, but every output key result scored 1.00 (things shipped) while outcome key results averaged about 0.48, and the company missed both goals (NRR 102% against 108%, churn 3.4% against 2.5%). Two scores flatter: 'Launch 3 HRIS integrations' is labelled an outcome but is output, and course completion only 'beat' its target because completion was redefined on 1 August (all modules to 80%), so the result can't be compared with its baseline. The outcome key results that matter for churn moved backwards or barely (weekly active learners per seat 0.31 to 0.29; days to first learner 34 to 31; seats added 8,100 against 9,200). Builds next quarter's OKRs on the churn evidence: low usage is the top exit reason, and accounts reaching a first learner within 14 days churn at a third of the rate. So Admin owns days from contract to first learner (from 31), Learner app owns weekly active learners per seat (from 0.29), Growth owns seats added in existing accounts or net expansion, each with a baseline from the files and a target, with shipping work as initiatives. Notes the completion metric needs restating on one definition before anyone uses it.

Critical failures (cap the score at 40)
  • Describes last quarter as a success on the strength of the 0.81 average
Task

Staff-level · v1.1

The outputs

9 setups answered this brief.

Needs more than a quick edit8 of 11 checks passed

The unsupported causal claims (e.g., about gamification and budget cut causes) would need verification or rewriting before a PM could use it without re-checking evidence or reasoning.

Output

MEMO To: Grace Mensah, CPO From: Staff PM Date: Start of Q4 Subject: Q3 OKR Post-Mortem and Proposed Q4 Product OKRs

1. What Q3’s OKRs Actually Tell Us

At the all-hands, we celebrated a 0.81 average OKR score while the company failed its only two goals: Net Revenue Retention (NRR) dropped from 103% to 102% (target: 108%), and logo churn rose from 3.1% to 3.4% (target: 2.5%).

We achieved high team scores while losing customers because our OKR system rewards shipping features over changing customer behavior.

Outputs disguised as outcomes inflated our score. Ten of our 16 KRs were binary tasks (shipping features, running experiments, closing bugs). The Admin team even mislabeled "Launch 3 HRIS integrations" as an outcome. All 10 output KRs scored 1.00. If we strip out outputs and look only at true outcomes, our average score drops to 0.48. If we further remove technical uptime, the score for customer-behavior outcomes is 0.38.

The commercial outcomes we actually needed to move went backward. * Learner Engagement (0.00): Weekly active learners per seat (WAL/seat) fell from 0.31 to 0.29. Over 70% of paid seats sit unused each week. * Onboarding Speed (0.15): Days from contract to first learner barely budged from 34 to 31 days (target: 14). * Account Expansion (0.00): Seats added in existing accounts fell from 9,200 to 8,100 (target: 14,000).

Our three outcome wins were disconnected from retention: 1. Course completion rate (41% to 58%, score 1.00): This was largely a mirage. On August 1, we lowered the definition of "complete" from 100% of modules finished to 80% to match our certificate rule. We moved the goalposts mid-quarter and claimed a win. 2. App store rating (4.2 to 4.5, score 0.75): A vanity metric. It takes a tiny fraction of happy users to rate an app, which masks the fact that overall weekly usage shrank. 3. Uptime (99.93%, score 1.00): Good hygiene from Platform, but high availability doesn’t stop churn if nobody logs in.

Our outputs failed to move the outcomes they sat next to. * Admin shipped 3 HRIS integrations, yet time-to-first-learner stayed stuck at a month. Shipping an integration means nothing if admins don't adopt it during onboarding. * Learner shipped offline mode, streaks, and badges, yet weekly active usage dropped. Gamification only engages users who are already active; it doesn't get dormant seats in the door. * Growth ran 13 experiments and shipped upgrade prompts, yet added fewer seats than in Q2. You cannot prompt an admin to buy more seats when 71% of the seats they already pay for are gathering dust.

The Root Cause of Q3 Churn Exit interviews from 38 churned accounts make the causal chain clear: * 45% left because "our people didn't use it" (17/38). Another 24% (9/38) cited budget cuts, and 18% (7/38) consolidated into their HR system’s bundled LMS—both of which happen when an L&D team cannot prove ROI on Pathwise usage. * Crucially, accounts that reached their first learner within 14 days churned at a third of the rate of the rest. Right now, our average account takes 31 days—meaning the majority of new cohorts start life in the high-churn danger zone.

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2. How Q4 OKRs Add Up to the Company Goal

To hit 108% NRR and 2.5% logo churn, Product must fix the sequence of value creation for an annual seat-based business:

  1. Admin must compress onboarding under the 14-day threshold and get seats assigned, cutting early structural churn.
  2. Learner must turn assigned seats into active weekly learners—both to stop the #1 churn reason ("people didn't use it") and to eat up seat capacity.
  3. Growth must convert high seat utilization into mid-contract seat expansion and give L&D buyers the ROI proof they need to defend their budget at renewal.

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3. Proposed Q4 OKRs (Learner, Admin, Growth)

Every KR below is a measurable customer behavior or business outcome. No roadmaps, features, or experiment counts are permitted on the scorecard.

#### Admin Team Role in Company OKR: Cut logo churn by getting accounts past the 14-day survival mark and driving seat provisioning.

Objective: Get every new account to fast, broad adoption. * KR 1: Reduce average days from contract signature to first learner from 31 days to 14 days. * KR 2: Increase the share of new accounts reaching their first active learner within 14 days from 28% (est. Q3 baseline) to 75%. (Note: Admin to confirm exact Q3 percentage in week 1). * KR 3: Increase average seat assignment rate (paid seats assigned to a named employee via HRIS or invite) within 30 days of contract from 52% (est. baseline) to 85%.

#### Learner App Team Role in Company OKR: Eliminate the #1 churn driver ("people didn't use it") by activating dormant seats and building a weekly learning habit.

Objective: Turn paid seats into weekly active learners. * KR 1: Increase Weekly Active Learners per paid seat (WAL/seat) from 0.29 to 0.42. * KR 2: Increase 30-day assigned-seat activation rate (share of newly assigned seats that start at least one course within 30 days) from 45% (est. baseline) to 70%. * KR 3: Increase course completion rate—held strictly to the constant 80%-module definition—from 58% to 68%.

#### Growth Team Role in Company OKR: Drive NRR from 102% to 108% by expanding capacity-constrained accounts and arming buyers to prevent renewal down-sell.

Objective: Expand high-usage accounts and lock in renewals. * KR 1: Increase quarterly seats added in existing accounts from 8,100 to 14,500 (sized to make up the Q3 shortfall and hit 108% NRR). * KR 2: Increase the quarterly seat-expansion conversion rate among "at-capacity" accounts (accounts with >80% of paid seats assigned and active) from 12% (est. baseline) to 28%. * KR 3: Reduce gross revenue contraction from seat reductions at renewal from 4.5% (est. Q3 baseline) to 2.0% of renewable ARR (e.g., by proving ROI via the new reporting dashboard before renewal conversations).

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4. Guardrails for Q4 Execution

  1. Freeze the Metric Dictionary: No metric definition may change mid-quarter without CPO sign-off and a retroactive restatement of the baseline.
  2. Track Outputs in Sprint Reviews, Not OKRs: Shipping features, running 12 experiments, or launching integrations are how we try to move KRs. If an experiment ships and the metric doesn’t move, the score is 0.00—which tells us in week 4 to pivot our approach before the quarter is lost.
  3. Confirm Baselines by Friday: Where Q3 tracking didn't capture cohort rates (Admin KR2/KR3, Learner KR2, Growth KR2/KR3), Data and PM leads will pull exact Q3 actuals by Friday so our baselines are locked before Q4 kickoff.

Grades and run details

Decision model 77 · LLM judge 83
Decision model checks
  • failUses the supplied evidence correctly76%
  • failAddresses the actual decision20%
  • passRespects explicit constraints28%
  • passIdentifies material uncertainty54%
  • partialAvoids unsupported claims43%
  • passProduces the required deliverable74%
  • passReads the scorecard for what it is100%
  • passCatches the redefined key result98%
  • passKey results are outcomes, not output97%
  • passFocuses on the big rock49%
  • passShows how the goals add up62%
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Usable with a quick edit11 of 11 checks passed

The memo is evidence-based, correctly reads the scorecard, and provides actionable OKRs; a PM could use it with only a quick edit to fill in the revenue baselines once Finance provides them.

Output

To: Grace Mensah, CPO From: Staff PM Subject: Q3 delivered features, not retained growth; proposed Q4 OKRs

What Q3 actually tells us

We missed the company objective despite a 0.81 product score. NRR fell from 103% to 102%, versus a 108% target. Quarterly logo churn rose from 3.1% to 3.4%, versus a 2.5% target. Calling this “a great quarter” confuses delivery with business impact.

The scorecard explains that disconnect:

  • Shipping dominated scoring. Ten of the 16 KRs measured outputs, including “Launch 3 HRIS integrations,” incorrectly labeled an outcome. All ten scored 1.00. The six genuine outcome KRs averaged approximately 0.48, not 0.81.
  • Learner value weakened while features shipped. Weekly active learners per paid seat fell from 0.31 to 0.29 despite offline mode, streaks and badges. A better app-store rating does not demonstrate adoption across employer accounts.
  • Admin setup barely improved. Contract-to-first-learner time moved from 34 to 31 days, far short of 14. Shipping integrations and reporting did not establish that customers reached value faster.
  • Expansion weakened despite experimentation. Seats added in existing accounts fell from 9,200 to 8,100—about 12%—while experiments and upgrade prompts exceeded delivery targets. Seats are also not revenue: discounts, seat removals and account losses can offset additions.
  • The content “win” is not comparable. Completion rose from 41% to 58%, but the definition changed from finishing every module to finishing 80%. We cannot separate real improvement from reclassification without recalculating both periods under one definition.
  • Reliability genuinely improved. Uptime exceeded target. That is valuable, but insufficient evidence of retention or expansion impact.

The churn evidence suggests where to intervene, without proving causality. Low usage was cited by 17 of 38 interviewed departing accounts, the largest category. Accounts reaching a first learner within 14 days churned at one-third the rate of other accounts. These findings support prioritizing activation and adoption; they do not establish that accelerating activation will itself cut churn by two-thirds. Customer characteristics may explain part of the association.

Q4 company commitment

Retain the CEO’s destination, rebased to Q3 actuals:

Company KRBaselineQ4 target
------:---:
Net revenue retention102%108%
Quarterly logo churn3.4%2.5%

Before scoring starts, Finance must confirm consistent NRR periods, cohort rules and revenue treatment. Annual contracts make renewal timing especially important.

Proposed team OKRs

Feature launches become initiatives, not scored KRs. Each team owns customer or commercial results.

Team / objectiveKey resultBaselineQ4 target
---------:---:
Learner app: Make paid seats deliver sustained learning valueWeekly active learners per paid seat, using the existing definition0.290.40
Admin: Get customers to value quickly and protect renewal revenueDays from contract to first learner, using the same aggregation as Q331 days14 days
AdminExisting-customer revenue lost to churn and contraction, divided by opening cohort revenueL₃, to be calculated from Q3 billingL₃ − 3 percentage points
Admin, shared with Learner and CSQuarterly logo churn3.4%2.5%
Growth: Turn demonstrated customer value into paid expansionExisting-customer expansion revenue, divided by opening cohort revenueE₃, to be calculated from Q3 billingE₃ + 3 percentage points
GrowthSeats added in existing accounts, retaining Q3’s definition8,10014,000

The logo-churn KR is one shared result, not three independently credited achievements. Admin coordinates the retention plan with CS; Learner owns adoption improvements. Growth’s revenue KR takes precedence over its seat-volume KR: buying seat growth through discounts is not success.

The revenue baselines are deliberately not invented. The supplied scorecard lacks expansion revenue, contraction revenue, churned revenue and opening recurring revenue. Finance must populate E₃ and L₃ before final approval. If Q3 revenue loss was below three percentage points, the proposed loss reduction is impossible; we must shift that portion of the six-point improvement budget to expansion and reassess feasibility.

How these add up

Using a consistent existing-customer cohort definition:

NRR = 100% + expansion revenue rate − churn/contraction revenue rate.

Q3 therefore implies E₃ − L₃ = 2 percentage points. The proposed Q4 improvement budget is:

  • Growth: three additional percentage points of expansion;
  • Admin, supported by Learner and CS: three fewer percentage points of revenue loss.

Together: 100% + (E₃ + 3) − (L₃ − 3) = 108%.

This is a six-point commercial bridge, not a claim that engagement or activation mechanically converts into revenue. Logo churn remains a separate constraint: retaining small accounts could improve logo churn without materially improving NRR. Conversely, one large expansion could improve NRR while many customers leave.

Operating discipline

In week one, Finance, Product and CS should establish the revenue baselines, renewal exposure and account-level retention/expansion plan. Validate that the improvement budget is achievable before locking the OKRs.

Review weekly by account cohort, not just company averages. Track activation coverage alongside time-to-first-learner so one early learner cannot conceal a stalled rollout. Inspect engagement across accounts so a few large customers cannot conceal widespread non-use.

Recalculate completion under a constant definition. Keep uptime as a guardrail. Do not average feature delivery and customer outcomes into another celebratory score: Q4 is successful only if customer value improves and the company retention goals are met.

Grades and run details

Decision model 100 · LLM judge 100
Decision model checks
  • passUses the supplied evidence correctly59%
  • passAddresses the actual decision79%
  • passRespects explicit constraints31%
  • passIdentifies material uncertainty100%
  • passAvoids unsupported claims80%
  • passProduces the required deliverable67%
  • passReads the scorecard for what it is100%
  • passCatches the redefined key result100%
  • passKey results are outcomes, not output85%
  • passFocuses on the big rock61%
  • passShows how the goals add up85%
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Check by check

Where the outputs differ comes first. Open a check to read the judge’s reasons. “Mixed” means the two graders disagreed.

Where they differ 3

Uses the supplied evidence correctlyMixedRight
Gemini 4 Argon · API

All factual statements about the current situation are sourced from the provided context or follow directly by arithmetic.

GPT-6.1 Sol · API

All factual claims about the current situation are taken directly from the supplied context or derived by arithmetic; no invented numbers or facts.

Addresses the actual decisionMixedRight
Gemini 4 Argon · API

The memo commits to specific Q4 OKRs for each team, framed for the CPO, and conditionally relies on baseline confirmation to finalise.

GPT-6.1 Sol · API

The memo commits to a clear set of Q4 OKRs with baselines and targets, addresses the CPO, and specifies conditions (revenue baselines, feasibility) that would change the plan.

Avoids unsupported claimsWrongRight
Gemini 4 Argon · API

Several causal claims are presented as settled fact without evidence (e.g., 'gamification only engages users who are already active', 'both [budget cuts and consolidation] happen when an L&D team cannot prove ROI').

GPT-6.1 Sol · API

Interpretations and causal claims are clearly labelled as suggestions or hypotheses, not presented as established fact.

All got right 8

Respects explicit constraintsRightRight
Gemini 4 Argon · API

The memo is well within 1,100 words, addresses the CPO as requested, and delivers the required analysis and OKRs.

GPT-6.1 Sol · API

The output is a memo to Grace Mensah, well under 1,100 words, and respects the requested form and reader.

Identifies material uncertaintyRightRight
Gemini 4 Argon · API

It identifies estimated baselines and requires exact Q3 actuals by week 1, acknowledging uncertainty in those numbers.

GPT-6.1 Sol · API

It names missing revenue baselines, the redefined completion metric, and the possibility that Q3 loss is too low to hit the target, and says how to resolve each.

Produces the required deliverableRightRight
Gemini 4 Argon · API

The memo is a complete deliverable with analysis and team-level OKRs with baselines and targets, usable as-is.

GPT-6.1 Sol · API

The memo provides the required analysis of Q3 and proposed Q4 OKRs for the three teams, with baselines and targets, and is usable as-is.

Reads the scorecard for what it isRightRight
Gemini 4 Argon · API

It separates output and outcome scores, shows outcome average 0.48, and sets them against the missed company goals.

GPT-6.1 Sol · API

It splits the scores into output (all 1.00) and outcome (average ~0.48) and contrasts them with the missed company goals.

Catches the redefined key resultRightRight
Gemini 4 Argon · API

It flags both the course completion definition change and the mislabeled HRIS integration output, explaining how they inflated scores.

GPT-6.1 Sol · API

It catches both the redefined completion metric (definition change on 1 August) and the integrations KR being output labelled as outcome.

Key results are outcomes, not outputRightRight
Gemini 4 Argon · API

All proposed key results are outcome metrics with baselines and targets; no shipping or activity-based KRs appear on the scorecard.

GPT-6.1 Sol · API

Every proposed key result is a measurable change in customer or business behaviour with a baseline and target; shipping work is explicitly moved to initiatives.

Focuses on the big rockRightRight
Gemini 4 Argon · API

Each team has one objective and three key results, with explicit reasoning that previous output KRs are dropped because they failed to move outcomes.

GPT-6.1 Sol · API

The OKRs are cut to a few critical outcomes per team, dropping output KRs and focusing on activation, time-to-value, expansion revenue, and churn.

Shows how the goals add upRightRight
Gemini 4 Argon · API

The memo explicitly links each team's KRs to the company goal of NRR and churn, with a clear laddering narrative.

GPT-6.1 Sol · API

The memo shows how each team KR contributes to NRR and logo churn via a revenue bridge formula, and flags the separate logo churn constraint.

Results

Every setup we’ve tested on this task type, across all its tasks and repeats, graded on the current checklist. Calibrated. Where our PM checked the graders by hand, they agreed on 100% of 12 checks.

#Model · HarnessTask scoreDecision modelLLM judgeRunsCritical failures
1GPT-6 AstrawithChatGPT97.7100.02None
2GPT-6.1 SolwithAPI97.7100.02None
3Sonnet 5.5withAPI100.091.72None
4Haiku 5.5withAPI93.295.82None
5Opus 5.5withClaude95.579.22None
6GPT-6 LunawithAPI79.579.22None
7Gemini 4 ArgonwithAPI77.370.82None
8Gemini 3.8 FlashwithAPI61.462.52None
9Gemini 3.5 Flash-LitewithGemini59.145.82None

What you get for the cost

Haiku 5.5 · API scores within 4 points of GPT-6 Astra · ChatGPT at about a thirtieth of the cost.

Task score against relative cost for each setup. The table below has the same figures.4050607080901001×3×10×30×100×Cost per output, relative to the cheapest setup (log scale) →↑ Task scoreGPT-6 Astra · ChatGPT: task score 99, 83× the cheapestGPT-6.1 Sol · API: task score 99, 16× the cheapestSonnet 5.5 · API: task score 96, 44× the cheapestHaiku 5.5 · API: task score 95, 2.1× the cheapestOpus 5.5 · Claude: task score 83, 78× the cheapestGPT-6 Luna · API: task score 78, the cheapestGemini 4 Argon · API: task score 71, 13× the cheapestGemini 3.8 Flash · API: task score 59, 13× the cheapestGemini 3.5 Flash-Lite · Gemini: task score 50, 2.1× the cheapestGPT-6 Astra · ChatGPTGPT-6.1 Sol · APISonnet 5.5 · APIHaiku 5.5 · APIOpus 5.5 · ClaudeGPT-6 Luna · APIGemini 4 Argon · APIGemini 3.8 Flash · APIGemini 3.5 Flash-Lite · Gemini
Best valueNobody beats these on both score and cost
Task score and relative cost by setup
SetupTask scoreRelative cost (cheapest = 1)
GPT-6 Luna · API781.0×
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite · Gemini502.1×
Haiku 5.5 · API952.1×
Gemini 3.8 Flash · API5913×
Gemini 4 Argon · API7113×
GPT-6.1 Sol · API9916×
Sonnet 5.5 · API9644×
Opus 5.5 · Claude8378×
GPT-6 Astra · ChatGPT9983×

Cost is each output’s tokens at the model’s list price, shown relative to the cheapest setup. Runs done in an app have no usage meter, so theirs are estimated from the same setup’s measured runs. How we compare cost

About the task

The PM job

Setting a team's goals for the quarter.

Why it matters

Most OKRs are task lists in disguise. Teams ship everything on them and nothing moves.

What good looks like

  • Key results are outcomes, not things to ship
  • Few enough to focus on
  • Each team's goals visibly add up to the company's
  • Kept apart from performance ratings

Deliberately not measured

  • OKR software or formatting
Capability tested

Goal setting

The failure we’re looking for

A task list dressed up as key results

Grading

Decision model and LLM judge, calibrated against a blind PM review