Connect Claude to Your OKRs (In Under 5 Minutes)

"How are my OKRs doing this week?" You can now ask Claude that question and get a real answer - pulled directly from your live OKR Studio data. No dashboards to open, no numbers to copy-paste, no context to re-explain.

What This Actually Does

OKR Studio ships with a built-in MCP server. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the open standard that lets AI assistants like Claude connect to external tools and data sources. Once connected, Claude can read your objectives, key results, check-in history, cycles, and team structure - all in real time.

Think of it as giving Claude read access to your OKR dashboard. Instead of you looking things up and pasting them into a chat, Claude queries the data directly and answers in context.

Three Steps to Set It Up

The setup takes less than five minutes:

• Generate an API key - Go to Settings → API Access in OKR Studio and create a new key. Give it a name like "Claude Desktop" and copy it (you only see it once).
• Add the config - Open your Claude Desktop settings (or .vscode/mcp.json for VS Code) and add OKR Studio as a server with your API key.
• Start asking - Claude now has access to your OKR data. Ask it anything about your objectives, progress, or team alignment.

For Claude Desktop, add this to your config file:

{ "mcpServers": { "okr-studio": { "url": "https://api.okrstud.io/mcp", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" } } } }

For Claude Code or VS Code Copilot, create a .vscode/mcp.json file in your project with the same structure. Full setup details are in the [MCP documentation](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/quickstart/user).

What You Can Ask

Once connected, try these:

• "What are my current objectives and how is each one tracking?"
• "Which key results are falling behind this week?"
• "Summarize progress across all teams for our Q2 cycle"
• "What key results does the engineering team own?"
• "Show me the check-in history for our revenue key result"

Claude returns live data - not cached summaries or stale exports. If someone updated a check-in five minutes ago, Claude sees it.

How Turbine Studios Uses This for Standups

Turbine Studios is an eight-person engineering team running two-week sprints. Their team lead, Sara, used to spend 20 minutes before each Monday standup clicking through dashboards and building a mental model of where things stood.

“Now I just ask Claude to brief me before standup. 'Which key results moved last week, and which ones are at risk?' Thirty seconds, done. I walk into the meeting already knowing where to focus the conversation.”

Her team also uses it during sprint planning. Instead of switching between OKR Studio and their project board, they ask Claude: "What key results should this sprint move?" Claude pulls the active objectives and flags the ones that need attention based on check-in trends.

Who It Works For

Any team using OKR Studio can connect Claude. The MCP server respects your existing permissions - each API key is scoped to your organization's data only. Works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, VS Code Copilot, and Cursor.

If you already use Claude for writing, planning, or coding, adding your OKR context means it stops guessing what you should work on and starts knowing.

Give Claude Access to Your OKRs

Generate an API key in Settings → API Access and connect Claude to your live OKR data in under five minutes.