The Alignment map shows how objectives and teams relate across your organisation. It helps you see contribution paths, parent/child team structure, and where goals might be orphaned or overloaded.

Note: Requires the Align OKRs feature for your organisation.

Opening the map

1. Open Explore from the sidebar
2. Select the Alignment map tab (URL: /explore#alignment)

The map uses the same date as the rest of Explore. Change the date in the header to view alignment on a historical day.

View modes

A toolbar toggle switches between two layouts:

Vertical alignment

Shows objective trees and Contributes to links between teams for a chosen anchor team.

• Top-down: Start from a parent or leadership team and see what contributes upward into its objectives. Any team can be selected as the anchor.
• Bottom-up: Start from a team that has a parent team and see how its objectives connect upward. Only teams with a parent appear in the team picker.

Use the direction dropdown (Top-down or Bottom-up) next to the team selector. Switching direction resets the selected team.

Select the anchor team from the popover (Search teams...). The chart expands objectives and key results; dense graphs may open a Supporting Objectives or Contributes To dialog when there are many links.

Teams

Shows your organisation's team hierarchy as an interactive chart (pan and zoom). Expand team nodes to see their objectives for the selected date. Useful for understanding org structure plus OKR placement in one view.

Interacting with the map

• Pan and zoom to move around large graphs
• Expand nodes to reveal objectives and key results
• Fullscreen toggles a focused view (press Escape to exit). Fullscreen titles read Vertical Alignment or Teams depending on mode
• Click through to team routes where links are offered

If no teams exist yet, you'll see No teams found. Create a team to see alignment.

How this relates to Contributes to

Links on the map come from Contributes to relationships set on the Create tab. The map does not create links; it visualises them. To add or change links, edit objectives in the team OKR editor. See Contributing & Supporting OKRs.

Supported by on the map

Selecting an objective may show how many other objectives contribute to it or which objectives it supports. Large sets open a dialog instead of drawing every edge on the canvas.

Tips

• Pick the right direction: Executives often prefer Top-down from the company team; squad leads may prefer Bottom-up from their own team
• Match the snapshot date: Alignment on the last day of a quarter can differ from mid-quarter if OKRs changed
• Use Teams mode for reorganisations: When parent teams change, the Teams view clarifies the new hierarchy before drilling into objectives
• Validate after planning: After setting Contributes to links in Create, open the map to confirm nothing important is missing