"This program did not just teach me OKRs. It taught me I could *build* the future I wanted"

# From a YouTube Video to 244 KRs: My OKR Journey

In 2023, I watched a YouTube video of Vishen explaining OKRs.

Something clicked. I run Avana — a medical devices company in Chennai with 35 people. I had goals. I had spreadsheets. I had review meetings. But I didn't have *alignment*. I implemented OKRs the very next week.

For two years, I saw steady improvement. But the outcomes were not what I had hoped for.

I couldn't figure out why.

Then I attended Vishen's OKR session inside Entrepreneurship Mastery. Within those few hours, I saw it — clearly, painfully. I had been writing tasks disguised as Key Results. I had been setting goals *for* my team instead of building goals *with* them. I had never separated Committed from Aspirational. I had been doing OKRs wrong for two years.

That was a hard moment. But also a freeing one.

I went back and rebuilt everything from scratch.

Then came the next problem. I wanted every single employee to own their OKR. I wanted weekly check-ins. I wanted both top-down cascading and bottom-up ownership. I wanted full transparency — every person seeing every goal across the company. The off-the-shelf tools were either too rigid or too expensive.

So I built it myself.

Here is the part I still can't believe: I cannot code. Not then, not even now. But Entrepreneurship Mastery introduced me to vibe coding — using AI to build what I had always assumed required a development team. Over one weekend, I built OKR Pulse — a full web application that now holds my entire company's goal system.

Three weeks after rollout: - 4 company Objectives - 15 organizational Key Results - 244 individual Key Results owned by every employee - 94% check-in rate by week 3

Every person in Avana now sees the entire company's goals. Every person owns their slice of the mission. By week three, 94% of them were showing up to mark their progress — not because they were told to, but because they finally saw how their work connects to something bigger.

What started as a YouTube video became a methodology. The methodology became an obsession. The obsession became a tool I built with my own hands — without ever learning to code.

And that tool is now changing how 35 people experience their work every day.

Mindvalley did not just teach me OKRs. It taught me I could *build* the future I wanted, instead of waiting for someone else to build it for me.

That is the real transformation.

Vivekananda M CEO, Avana Surgical Systems