A strategy that changes as fast as you learn.
Ditch the 18-month roadmap. Clearahead builds your strategy in real time: set the direction, work on what’s in the way and let the plan change as your team learns, so everyone stays on the work that will move the goal most.
Free for up to 3 people. No card needed.
Why the roadmap goes stale.
A conventional plan adds things: more initiatives, more metrics, more slides. It’s out of date within weeks of being signed off, and the team either follows a plan they no longer believe in or quietly works around it.
Clearahead takes the opposite approach; rather than adding weight, it focuses the team on removing what’s in the way, and the strategy builds itself from what you learn as you go.
How Clearahead does it.
Start from the destination.
Set the goal and AJ writes up why it matters, why you believe it’s possible and how you’ll know you’ve arrived. Big pushes, such as a launch, a raise or a new market, run in their own workspaces beside the day-to-day goal, so each has a clear plan of its own.
Focus on the few things that matter.
Your strategy is the short list of constraints, in the order you’ll tackle them, with the moves under each. Everything else has a place without crowding the plan: work that moves the goal without sitting under a constraint goes in Other work, and possibilities wait in Ideas until someone starts one.
Plan in weeks, not quarters.
Moves are small and specific, each with one owner and a due date, so you find out quickly whether they work. AJ suggests the next moves for each constraint, ranked, with its reasoning, and tells you how well your own ideas fit.
Let the plan learn.
Every update is logged as evidence, and when a move lands AJ asks whether it changes what you believe about the constraint above it. Constraints ease, clear and give way to new ones, so the plan on Monday reflects what you learned last week rather than what you guessed last year.
Past versions and history keep the full record, so you can always see how the strategy changed and why.
What changes.
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A plan people believe in.
Built from what the team has seen, and changed when they learn something new.
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Focus on the highest-impact work.
The constraints in order, and the moves under each, with nothing else competing.
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Change without a replan.
Constraints clear and new ones appear, without a new deck or an offsite.
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A record of why.
Every change to the strategy comes with the evidence that prompted it.
The parts of the app that do it.
- The model Your goal, what’s holding it back and the moves to clear it, in one view.
- Ideas Somewhere to keep ideas beside the model until someone starts one.
- Workspaces A workspace for each goal, team or department, up to 10 per organisation.
- Evidence The facts behind every item, saved from each update with who said it and when.
Further reading A loop, not a plan →Alignment beats activity →How to set company goals in 2027 →
Questions.
Does this replace our annual plan?
Keep your annual targets and set them as goals in Clearahead. What it replaces is the long list of initiatives and the roadmap that goes stale, with a short list of constraints and moves that changes as you learn.
Can we plan several things at once?
Yes. Give each goal its own workspace, such as growth, a US launch and the raise. The Clearahead plan includes up to 10 workspaces, with your team and billing shared.
Does Clearahead do Gantt charts or timelines?
No, on purpose. Moves have owners and due dates, and long-range scheduling stays in the tools built for it. See what Clearahead doesn’t do.
What else Clearahead does.
What’s in your way?
Free for up to 3 people. No card needed.