Strategic planning that stays live after the offsite ends.
Most plans are written in two days and drift from the work over the next ten months. Vindaris links each part of the plan to the goals and tasks delivering it, so the plan keeps reporting on itself.
What is strategic planning software?
Strategic planning software helps you build the plan: the objectives, the initiatives, the owners, the numbers and the timeline. The good products make that process faster and the output clearer. The question worth asking during evaluation is what the tool does in the nine months after the plan is signed off.
How is it different from strategy execution software?
Planning software is optimised for the weeks around the offsite, when the plan is being built. Execution software is optimised for the quarters after, when the plan and the work drift apart. Many teams need both, and the handover between them is where plans usually go quiet. See strategy execution management.
Does a strategic plan need Gantt charts?
Rarely, at the strategy level. A Gantt chart is a delivery artefact and strategic initiatives are usually too coarse for one to be meaningful. What the plan does need is the ability to open an initiative and see the actual projects and tasks under it, which is a different capability.
How do you keep a plan current?
Not by scheduling reviews to update it, which is the standard answer and the reason plans go stale between reviews. A plan stays current when its initiatives are connected to the work delivering them, so progress and risk change as the work changes rather than as the calendar turns.
What should trigger a plan revision?
Evidence that an assumption behind it has changed, which usually shows up in the work long before it shows up in a number. An initiative nobody has touched for six weeks is a signal about priority, and it is visible immediately when the plan can see the work under it.
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The plan as a live board: strategic bets at the top, the goals and KPIs beneath them, and the projects and synced tasks delivering each one. Click through the live workspace, no signup.
Built for the moments the plan stops matching the work.
The document reads well in month one. By month four nobody opens it. These are the moments planning teams turn Vindaris on.
One connected system, from the plan down to a single task.
The plan and the work delivering it do not belong in separate tools that someone reconciles each quarter. In Vindaris they share one model, so a closed task moves the goal above it on its own.
The plan and work in one graph
Strategic bets, goals, KPIs, projects and tasks connect on an open canvas with no fixed hierarchy. A goal can serve two bets, which a planning document has no way to express.
Risk that finds you first
The Work Graph reads the edges between the plan and the work beneath it, then alerts the owner when a bet has no work attached, a goal stalls, or effort drifts away from the plan.
Work stays where it lives
Connect HubSpot, Jira, Planner, Asana and Google Tasks. The plan stops being a separate document about the work and becomes a view over it, with no reconciliation step in between.
Capture the strategic plan
Define the strategy, goals and initiatives on the Alignment Canvas. Cascade from company level down to teams and individuals using whichever framework you already plan in.
- A goal can serve two bets, which a planning document cannot express.
- Filter by owner, team or time range to inspect one part of the plan.
Connect the tools the plan is delivered in
Plug in HubSpot, Microsoft Planner, Google Tasks, Asana or Jira. Bidirectional sync pulls the work behind the plan into Vindaris while your team stays in their own tools.
- No team migrates. The work stays where it happens.
- Every synced item keeps a tag pointing at its source tool, so the plan can be traced to what shipped.
Map work to the plan
Vindaris suggests which tasks and projects deliver each goal and initiative based on labels, owners and structure. Confirm the mapping, and the plan is live with real work behind it.
- Suggestions come from the work, not from a naming convention.
- Each owner sees their own part of the plan, ranked by impact.
Get alerted when the plan slips
The Work Graph evaluates the work behind each part of the plan and flags where it stalls, so you adjust before a quarter is lost rather than after the board pack says so.
- Twelve alert types, each with the blocking work named.
- Scheduled AI summaries land in Slack, Teams or email.
What three teams caught early.
1000 Good Things, Kith Spark and rufmacher connect their goals to the work behind them in Vindaris. Each case study walks through the setup and the moment the tool paid for itself.
1000Good Things
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“The heatmap tells us which KPI is short on activity before the team does.”
Kith Spark
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“The dashboard shows exactly where we're ahead and where we need to lean in.”
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“The Work Graph compared our reps' patterns and flagged the step everyone but the top performers skipped.”
Write the plan in plain language, get a canvas.
Describe the plan the way you would present it at the offsite. Mention a goal, KPI, project or task with @ and Vindaris maps it onto the Alignment Canvas.
The Work Graph watches the plan and tells you which parts are not moving.
Vindaris reads the edges between the plan and the work beneath it. When a bet has no work attached, a goal stalls, or effort drifts away from the plan, the owner hears about it with the reason attached. Each alert is execution risk caught while there is still time to act.
Twelve deterministic and AI-driven alerts watching for slipping work, broken routines and misaligned focus.
Your framework, your language, your data in Europe.
Vindaris fits the planning cycle you already run, annual or rolling, and keeps the plan connected to delivery for the three quarters after the offsite.
Plans in your framework
Vindaris ships without a prescribed methodology. Plan in OGSM, cascade with Hoshin Kanri, or run a plain set of annual bets, and rename every level to match the language your company already uses. One workspace holds all of it.
Your data stays in Europe
Vindaris runs in a Hetzner data center in Nuremberg and was built around European data sovereignty from the start. Procurement and your DPO will find the answers they need in the trust center.
Free forever, including two integrations.
Start free with full planning, goal, KPI, task and project management. Pay only when you add more than four people, more integrations, or more automated AI summaries.
Best for individual contributors, small teams or startups. No credit card required.
- All views: Canvas, My Priorities, Heatmap, Data Studio and Task Board
- Two integrations of your choice
- Up to four additional members
- Five ad-hoc AI risk summaries per month
Best for teams, small agencies, or departmental and team management.
- Everything in Free
- All integrations, unlimited sync
- Unlimited AI risk summaries and alignment suggestions
- Up to ten users in one organization
Best for multiple teams, exec teams, Chiefs of Staff or full-org deployments.
- Everything in Connect
- Unlimited users in one organization
- Direct human support, 24h response
- Human-led onboarding
Free tools and templates for strategic planning.
Real Excel and PowerPoint files and browser tools that run without an account. Built for the week before the offsite, not the week after.
Common questions, answered
What is strategic planning software?
Strategic planning software helps organizations define a strategy, set goals, and plan the initiatives to deliver it. Vindaris is strategic planning software that connects the plan to the work executing it, so a strategic plan is tracked through real goals and tasks instead of closing as a slide deck after the planning offsite.
How is Vindaris different from a planning template or deck?
A template or deck captures the plan at a moment in time and goes stale as soon as work starts. Vindaris keeps the plan connected to the work delivering it through bidirectional sync, so progress and risk update automatically and the plan stays an accurate map of what the organization is actually doing.
Does it support OKRs, EOS, and KPIs?
Yes. Vindaris is framework-agnostic and supports OKRs, KPIs, EOS Rocks, OGSM, Hoshin Kanri, the Balanced Scorecard, and SMART goals, so you can plan with whichever framework your organization runs and keep one connected view across teams.
Does the strategic plan stay updated automatically?
Yes. Because each goal and initiative connects to the tasks and projects delivering it, plan progress rolls up from real work as it moves. You do not maintain a separate planning document by hand; the plan reflects the current state of the work.
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