Strategy alignment · for leaders

Strategy that actually shows up in the work.

You see the potential. You know what your team is capable of when every effort points the same way. Synchain makes it visible — a living cascade that links your company objective to every strategy, every departmental OKR, every initiative, and every result, so the line from ambition to action is unbroken.

One cascade. One direction. Every level pulling together.A single chain you can defend in any boardroom and act on by Monday morning.

Built on a decade of peer-reviewed research, designed for ambitious teams in manufacturing, automotive, logistics — and any company ready to turn strategy into measurable progress.

Stress-test your strategy in a Synchain workspace

Spin up a living cascade, invite owners across departments, and keep every OKR and initiative tied to the company objective that funded it.

Methodology
Three industry-standard frameworks, stitched into one living cascade.
Hoshin Kanri

Catchball-style cascade from a single company objective down to departmental tactics. Defines the shape of the cascade.

OKR

Objective-and-key-result discipline at every node. Departmental OKRs that move the strategy they hang from.

SCOR Digital Standard

Supply-chain reference taxonomy that grounds every recommendation in published, proven process language.

Frameworks & Standards
SCOR Digital StandardHoshin KanriOKR FrameworkAPICS · ASCMBalanced ScorecardKaplan & NortonLean Six SigmaISO 9001SCOR Digital StandardHoshin KanriOKR FrameworkAPICS · ASCMBalanced ScorecardKaplan & NortonLean Six SigmaISO 9001
What we believe

Strategy should be visible in the work, not just on the wall.

01 · Why

Every team should know exactly how their work moves the company forward.

Ambition is rarely the missing ingredient. Visibility is. When every person can trace their week back to a sentence the board approved, momentum compounds instead of cancelling itself out.

02 · How

A living cascade, every node linked upward and downward.

Company objective → strategy → departmental OKR → initiative → result. Every recommendation grounded in peer-reviewed research and proven consulting frameworks, so the chain is defensible at every level.

03 · What

An AI diagnostic, cascade builder, and OKR catalog — in one workspace.

A multi-tenant SaaS with an AI diagnostic agent, a cascade builder, validated OKR recommendations, and (v2) cross-departmental coordination so adjacent teams stay pulling in the same direction.

Why strategy stalls

Three reasons strategy stalls before it reaches the work.

Most strategy work stalls not because the strategy is wrong, but because nobody can trace a number on a dashboard back to a sentence the board actually approved.

Two-thirds of strategy executions never deliver the outcomes leaders set out to achieve. Kaplan & Norton, The Strategy-Focused Organization (HBR Press, 2000), corroborated by HBR / McKinsey, 2017–2023.

01 / Boardroom

Strategy decks rarely meet the work.

Vague objectives like “improve operational excellence” leave middle managers translating ambiguity into whatever they can measure. Translation drifts every quarter.

02 / Catalog

OKRs scatter across tools and teams.

Procurement tracks supplier OTD in one sheet, plant ops tracks fill rate in another, finance tracks DSO in a third. None of them are linked to the same parent objective.

03 / Initiatives

Initiatives drift without a parent OKR.

Programmes get funded on slide decks, not on linkage. By month four, nobody can say whether the initiative is still moving the metric it was launched to move.

The product

One cascade. From company objective to every result.

The cascade is the source of truth. Each node has an owner, each departmental OKR has a target and a pace, each initiative links upward to the strategy it serves — and the health score tells you instantly where the chain is intact and where it needs attention.

  • Five layers, one chain: company objective → strategy → departmental OKR → initiative → result. Every node links upward and downward.
  • Cascade completeness, off-pace OKRs, top-impact initiatives as first-class dashboard widgets — not afterthoughts.
  • Anonymised cross-tenant benchmarks on the proposed-OKR queue — promote a measure once it recurs across peer organisations.
  • Every recommendation passes a strategy stress-test and a buzzword filter — measurable outputs, never bland consensus.
What's in the engine

Diagnostic, catalog, cascade, dashboards.

Four primitives. Each one is opinionated about the next.

AI diagnostic, 7 phases

From symptom to roadmap. Extended thinking only on phases 3, 4 and 6 — the ones where it earns its tokens.

≤ €2 per assessment

SCOR-aligned OKR catalog

Pre-loaded with the SCOR Digital Standard taxonomy. Search, propose, and promote tenant-specific measures into your departmental OKRs.

Vector + lexical retrieval

Cascade builder

Drag a draft cascade into the canvas. Validation gates flag orphan OKRs, untraced initiatives and buzzword objectives.

Owner-aware, tenant-scoped

Cascade health dashboard

Cascade completeness, off-pace OKRs and top-impact initiatives — computed live, not nightly.

Computed in Postgres

Strategy stress-test

Every strategy candidate is challenged by a second-pass agent before it's offered to the user. Sharper thinking, no bland consensus.

Buzzword gate · token cap 1500

Cross-departmental coordination

(v2) Detect adjacent OKRs working against each other before quarter-end. Keep teams pulling in the same direction.

Shipping v2 · 2026 H2

Initiative suggester

Sub-agent reads off-pace OKRs and proposes initiatives with rough ROI bands and a phasing column.

ROI bands, not point estimates

Audit-friendly trace

Every LLM phase, every prompt version, every cost is logged per assessment. Reproducible diagnostics, not vibes.

Per-phase Sentry trace
How it works

A seven-phase diagnostic, with thinking where it counts.

The diagnostic walks the operator from an identified issue to a defensible remediation strategy. Three of the seven phases unlock deep new insights, driving extended strategic thinking.

PHASE 01SymptomCapture the felt problem in the operator's own words, without coaching.
PHASE 02ContextPull org shape, function, scale and prior attempts. Lightweight, deterministic.
PHASE 03 · thinkRoot causeExtended reasoning over the causal chain. Retrieves SCOR / Hoshin patterns to test.
PHASE 04 · thinkReframeRewrite the problem as a strategic objective candidate — buzzword-free, measurable.
PHASE 05StrategyGenerate 2–3 strategy options. Devil's advocate kills the bland ones before user sees them.
PHASE 06 · thinkOKRsPropose departmental OKRs against the SCOR catalog. Gate: every OKR moves the strategy it hangs from.
PHASE 07RoadmapInitiative phasing with rough ROI bands and a quarter-by-quarter Gantt.
Extended thinking Deterministic phaseIntegrated Strategy Execution Model
A decade of peer-reviewed research

Grounded in research, not consultant intuition.

Synchain is the only strategy alignment tool built on top of a decade of peer-reviewed research and a published OKR taxonomy. The diagnostic, the catalog, and the cascade gates all trace back to verifiable methodology — every recommendation cites the source it came from.

10yr
Of peer-reviewed research

A decade of academic work on Hoshin Kanri, OKR, and SCOR — distilled into the engine.

45
PhD Thesis-validated measures

Across 9 SCM subsystems, each with published precision and recall scores.

SCOR-DS
Aligned methodology

Catalog re-mapped to the 2026 SCOR Digital Standard. Every recommendation cites its source.

Customers

Pilot quotes land here, soon.

We're onboarding our first pilots. This space is reserved for their words — once they've shipped a cascade, fixed an at-risk KPI, and have an opinion worth quoting.

Your pilot here
Pilot programme · 2026

One cascade. One direction. Every level pulling together.

Stress-test your strategy on one company objective. See the cascade. Decide if the rest of your strategy deserves the same scrutiny.