How Stratafy Compares to Other Frameworks
If you use OKRs, EOS, Scaling Up, or Balanced Scorecard, the Stratafy methodology is not a replacement. It is the infrastructure layer underneath — the connective tissue that makes those frameworks work at scale.
Every popular strategy framework solves part of the problem well. None solves all of it. The gaps are not flaws in the frameworks — they are the boundaries of what any single framework was designed to address. Stratafy fills those gaps by providing the structural foundation, intelligence layers, and continuous feedback loops that these frameworks assume but don't provide.
OKRs
Objectives and Key Results — Intel (Andy Grove), popularised by Google Learn more
A goal-setting system where Objectives define what you want to achieve and Key Results define how you measure progress. Typically set quarterly.
What Maps to Stratafy
What's Missing
- No foundation layer — OKRs don't define the identity, values, or beliefs they should trace to
- No strategy hierarchy — objectives float without structural connection to a strategic logic
- No intelligence layers — no systematic tracking of risks, assumptions, or decisions
- No alignment scanning — drift between OKRs and actual strategy goes undetected
- No feedback loops — quarterly reviews replace continuous learning
EOS / Traction
Entrepreneurial Operating System — Gino Wickman Learn more
A complete business management system built around six key components: Vision, People, Data, Issues, Process, and Traction. Uses a V/TO (Vision/Traction Organizer) and quarterly Rocks.
What Maps to Stratafy
What's Missing
- No beliefs or principles — the identity layer is incomplete
- No strategy hierarchy — the jump from vision to rocks skips the strategic logic
- No intelligence layers — issues lists are unstructured and lack risk/assumption tracking
- No alignment scanning — coherence between layers is assumed, not measured
- No AI readiness — strategy lives in meetings and spreadsheets, not queryable infrastructure
- No continuous feedback — quarterly pulse replaces continuous learning
Scaling Up
Scaling Up / Rockefeller Habits — Verne Harnish Learn more
A growth methodology built around four decisions: People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash. Uses One-Page Strategic Plans, BHAGs, and quarterly/annual planning rhythms.
What Maps to Stratafy
What's Missing
- No beliefs — strategic premises remain implicit and untested
- No intelligence layers — risks and assumptions are discussed but not systematically tracked
- No decision tracking — the reasoning behind strategic choices is lost between planning cycles
- No alignment scanning — the One-Page Plan connects layers visually but doesn't detect drift
- No external intelligence — no structured radar for market signals
- No AI readiness — the One-Page Plan is a document, not infrastructure
Balanced Scorecard
Balanced Scorecard / Strategy Maps — Kaplan & Norton Learn more
A performance management framework that measures strategy across four perspectives: Financial, Customer, Internal Process, and Learning & Growth. Uses strategy maps to visualise cause-and-effect relationships.
What Maps to Stratafy
What's Missing
- No foundation layer — starts at strategy, missing identity infrastructure
- No intelligence layers — assumptions behind cause-and-effect chains go untested
- No decision tracking — why specific measures were chosen is not recorded
- No external intelligence — internally focused, no radar capability
- No continuous feedback — reporting cadence replaces real-time learning
- No AI readiness — strategy maps are visual artifacts, not queryable data
- No collaborative building — designed for top-down cascade, not co-working
The Common Pattern
Every framework above shares the same structural gaps:
Strategy lives in documents
One-Page Plans, V/TOs, strategy maps, and OKR spreadsheets are all documents. They cannot be queried, consumed by AI, or updated in real time. They are snapshots that age the moment they are written.
Intelligence is implicit
Every framework assumes that risks are being managed, assumptions are being tested, and decisions are being recorded. None provides the structure to actually do this systematically. The intelligence layers are left to chance.
Learning is periodic
Quarterly planning, annual reviews, weekly meetings — these are all periodic. In an environment where AI agents act continuously and markets move in real time, periodic learning creates structural lag that compounds into strategic drift.
Built for humans alone
These frameworks were designed before AI agents became a reality. They assume strategy is consumed by humans in meetings. They have no concept of machine-readable strategy, collaborative building with AI, or strategic context for autonomous agents.
What Strategic Infrastructure Adds
The Stratafy methodology does not replace these frameworks. It provides the layer they all assume exists but don't build. Your OKRs, Rocks, and scorecards work better when they sit on top of infrastructure that provides:
Mission, vision, values, beliefs, principles
Corporate, functional, and sub-strategies with traceability
Strategic, tactical, and operational with strategy linkage
OKRs, milestones, leading/lagging indicators
Risks, assumptions, decisions, insights, radar
Five directional lenses detecting drift
Functional stress-testing across eight lenses
Continuous learning that compounds
Collaborative building and maintenance
API-accessible, queryable by AI agents via MCP
