Replacing OKR, performance reviews, and 1:1s with growth signals

Know your team's growth momentum, every week.

Deltu collects weekly growth signals from every person — delta status, pressure, alignment — through a double-blind mechanism. When signals collide, the gaps become your most valuable conversations.

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The problem

OKR was built for a slower world.

AI compressed what used to take a quarter into weeks. Your team's reality changes every 7 days — but feedback still arrives once every 90.
Your quarter in reality
W1W4W8W12
12 weeks of shipping, pivoting, hiring, blocking, burning out — happening continuously.
When OKR notices
GUESS & FILL
REVIEW
Start with guesswork, end with a review. 90 days of silence in between. Everything that happened? Invisible.
With Deltu
12 signals. One per week. You can see this person growing — obstacle in W4, cleared by W5, then breakthroughs accelerating.

90-day feedback loops

OKR cycles are too slow. By the time you review, the world has moved on. People who stopped growing 6 weeks ago? You find out at the quarterly review.

Form-filling theater

Employees write OKRs in January, forget them by February, and scramble to self-assess in March. The document exists, but alignment doesn't.

Invisible cognitive gaps

A manager thinks "they're doing fine." The partner thinks "I'm stuck and nobody notices." This gap accumulates silently, eroding trust until a crisis forces it open.

Fake quantification

Not everything can be measured. Early-stage products, R&D explorations, culture initiatives — forcing KRs on them produces numbers that mean nothing.


How Deltu works

5 minutes a week. That's it.

No lengthy forms. No quarterly rituals. Just one honest signal per person per week.
1

Mark your Delta

Every partner self-reports their weekly growth signal: stable, breakthrough, blocked, or stalled. Takes 30 seconds.

2

Manager assesses independently

The manager marks the same person's Delta — without seeing the partner's self-report. Double-blind by design.

3

Divergence surfaces

Both submit, both reveal. When they disagree, the system flags it. That gap is the best 1:1 conversation starter you'll ever have.

Honest signals, not performance theater.

Most management tools create anxiety. Deltu is designed to make honesty the path of least resistance.

"Stable" is the default

"Stable" means you're on track — it's the easiest button to press, not a mediocre grade. Most people, most weeks, are stable. That's healthy.

"Stalled" is protected

The stalled button is intentionally harder to press — de-emphasized in the UI to prevent careless labeling. Marking someone stalled should require deliberate thought.

Gaps are celebrated

When you and your manager disagree, the system doesn't flag an error — it generates a conversation starter. Divergence is the most valuable signal.

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Pressure is visible

High-load is self-marked — because the people under the most pressure are the least likely to speak up. Making it visible turns silent burden into shared support.

Delta History — 26 weeks
Breakthrough
Stable
Blocked
Stalled
Pending

Growth, visualized.

Every person's journey told in colored blocks. 26 weeks of history at a glance — no charts to interpret, no dashboards to learn.

Stable is the norm — not a failure. The UI makes it the easiest choice.

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Stalled is de-emphasized — the button is intentionally harder to press. No accidental stigma.

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Trends auto-calculate — accelerating, sliding, steady, or fluctuating. You see patterns, not just snapshots.

The gap is the signal.

Both sides submit independently. Neither sees the other's assessment until both are in. When they diverge, that's not a problem — that's the most valuable conversation waiting to happen.

Partner says "breakthrough", manager says "stable" — they need to align on what breakthrough means.

Partner says "blocked", manager says "stable" — the manager isn't seeing an obstacle. Time to listen.

Week 14 · Mike Chen
Partner Breakthrough submitted Mon 9:12am
Manager Stable submitted Tue 2:45pm

Cognitive gap detected. 1:1 agenda auto-generated: "Align on what breakthrough looks like."

Directions, not spreadsheets.

Every company-level direction starts with a Narrative — a paragraph that explains why this matters, not just what the target is. When everyone reads the same "why", they can self-align without being told what to do.

N

Narrative — the "why" behind each direction. Not a title, but a story anyone can read and judge priorities from.

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Metrics — quantifiable indicators with baseline and target. For mature, measurable business lines.

Milestones — verifiable key moments with completion dates. For early-stage exploration where numbers don't exist yet.

Shorten time to first value
4 key results · 23 people focused
Data shows users who complete their first import within 7 days convert at 3.2x the rate. But only 23% get there — most get stuck on format compatibility. If we move this to 50%, quarterly ARR grows by ~$400K...
Metrics
7-day import rate
23% → 50%
Milestones
Self-serve import wizard shipped Mar 18
First enterprise zero-touch import

A ritual, not a chore.

Deltu isn't a dashboard you dread opening. It's a 5-minute weekly rhythm — mark your delta, see what surfaces, have the right conversation. The system does the rest.

1

Monday nudge — a gentle prompt reminds you to mark your Delta. Not a deadline, not a demand.

Smart 1:1 agenda — divergences automatically generate suggested talking points. No more "what should we discuss?"

Guided onboarding — a built-in interactive guide explains the system to every role: Founder, Manager, and Partner. No training session needed.

26

26-week memory — half a year of growth history in colored blocks. Your trajectory tells its own story.

What your week looks like
Mon
System nudge arrives
"How was your week? Mark your Delta."
You
You submit: "Stable"
30 seconds. Done for the week.
Mgr
Manager submits: "Blocked"
They see something you don't.
Both reveal — divergence detected
1:1 agenda generated: "What obstacle are you seeing?"
1:1
Conversation happens — obstacle cleared
Next week's block turns blue. Growth continues.
Δ
Why "Delta"?

In math, Δ means the amount of change. Deltu turns every person's weekly change into a signal — and surfaces the signals that matter most: who's accelerating, who's stuck, and where your perception diverges from reality.

"The most important signals in your company are the ones nobody is saying out loud. Deltu makes them visible — every week, without asking anyone to be brave."
— The thinking behind Deltu
Pricing

Start free. Scale when ready.

No per-seat surprises. No annual lock-in.
Free
$0
Full product. Up to 20 people. No feature limits.
  • Double-blind weekly Delta
  • Directions with Narrative
  • Metrics + Milestones
  • Divergence signals
  • 26-week history blocks
  • Insights (all 3 role views)
  • Evaluation delegation
  • Google Workspace SSO
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