In most companies, strategic planning is a static affair. Leaders gather in a boardroom, hash out a plan for the next quarter or year, and immortalize it in a presentation deck or a spreadsheet. This document then sits, largely unchanged, until the next review cycle. But in a world that moves at the speed of data, this approach is fundamentally broken. By the time you realize a goal is off-track, the quarter is half over. By the time you identify a new opportunity, your competitors are already there.
What if your strategic plan wasn't a static document, but a living, breathing system? What if it could react to real-time market signals, automatically adjust targets, and flag issues the moment they arise? This isn't science fiction; it's the concept of a Strategic Agent—an automated system that executes, monitors, and adapts your business plan programmatically. And you can build one today.
Traditional strategic plans fail because they are disconnected from the daily operational data of the business.
This friction means that strategy often becomes a theoretical exercise rather than a practical, data-driven guide for action.
A Strategic Agent is an automated workflow that turns your plan into an active participant in your business operations. It’s the embodiment of Business Planning as Code. Instead of a static document, your plan becomes a machine-readable object, managed via an API.
This agent continuously performs a simple but powerful loop:
This transforms your strategy from a passive document into a dynamic, responsive engine for growth.
Building a Strategic Agent requires a foundation that treats your plan as a first-class citizen of your tech stack. That's where a planning API like Plans.do comes in.
First, you must translate your business objectives from a spreadsheet into a structured, API-addressable format. With Plans.do, you can define your OKRs directly in your codebase.
import { plans } from '@do/sdk';
const newPlan = await plans.create({
name: "Q4 2025 Expansion Plan",
description: "Expand into the European market and increase user base by 20%.",
type: "OKR",
goals: [
{
objective: "Achieve 50,000 new users in EU",
keyResults: [
{ metric: "New User Signups", startValue: 0, targetValue: 50000 },
{ metric: "Website Traffic (EU)", startValue: 0, targetValue: 200000 }
]
},
{
objective: "Establish Local Partnerships",
keyResults: [
{ metric: "Signed Partner Agreements", startValue: 0, targetValue: 5 }
]
}
]
});
console.log(newPlan.id);
// pln_1a2b3c4d5e6f7g8h
By codifying your plan, it's now versionable in Git, reviewable in pull requests, and, most importantly, programmatically accessible.
Your agent needs data to make decisions. This is where you connect to the pulse of your business. You can write simple scripts to pull metrics from various sources:
This is the "brain" of your agent. It’s a workflow (e.g., a cron job, a serverless function) that runs periodically. Here's a conceptual example:
Scenario: A Key Result is Underperforming
Your agent fetches the current number of New User Signups from your database and sees it's lagging significantly behind the pro-rated target for the quarter.
Scenario: A Goal is Exceeded Early
Your team crushes its goal and signs 50,000 new users in the first month. The static plan is now obsolete.
By building a Strategic Agent, you fundamentally change your organization's relationship with its goals. The benefits are transformative:
Your vision deserves more than a static document. It deserves a dynamic, intelligent system that actively works to make it a reality. The future of goal execution is agentic, and the foundation is an API for strategic planning.
What is Plans.do?
Plans.do is an API-first platform that lets you define, manage, and track your strategic business plans as code. It allows for the automation of goal setting, progress tracking, and reporting by integrating planning directly into your software and business systems.
How does 'Business-as-Code' apply to strategic planning?
By treating your strategic plans as code, you can version control them (e.g., in Git), automate their creation and updates via API, and trigger actions in other systems when milestones are reached. This brings the reliability, scalability, and automation of software development to your business strategy.
What kind of planning frameworks can I implement?
Our flexible API is framework-agnostic. You can easily model Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), V2MOM (Vision, Values, Methods, Obstacles, Measures), Balanced Scorecards, or any custom planning methodology your organization uses.
Can I integrate Plans.do with other tools?
Absolutely. Plans.do is designed for integration. Use our webhooks and API to connect with your project management tools (like Jira or Asana), communication platforms (like Slack), and business intelligence dashboards (like Tableau) to create a fully synchronized planning ecosystem.