BoardSnap is an iOS app that reads an OKR planning whiteboard and produces a clean, structured objectives document — objectives, key results, owners, and target metrics — from one photo.
OKR planning sessions are high-stakes and politically charged. Getting a team to agree on what matters for the next quarter is hard enough. The whiteboard is where it happens — someone writes the draft objectives in marker, the team debates, items get crossed out and rewritten, key results get added and pruned.
Then the meeting ends and someone has to produce 'the OKR doc.' That document is supposed to be the definitive record of the commitments the team just made. But it gets produced after the fact, sometimes by someone who wasn't in the room, often from a combination of a photo and someone's memory. The result is a doc that doesn't quite match what was agreed on the board.
The whiteboard is the moment of clarity. The doc is supposed to capture it. BoardSnap closes that gap.
One sentence: the quarter, the team, and the overarching bet. Example: 'Q3 2026 — Growth team — Bet: Activation is our biggest lever.' This becomes the header of the OKR doc.
Each objective gets its own horizontal band on the board. Write the objective in bold letters at the top of each band. Objectives should be qualitative and memorable — 'Become the default tool for PM teams' not 'Increase MAU.' Write three to five max.
Under each objective, write candidate key results as bullet points. At this stage, generate more than you need. Key results should be measurable — include the specific number and current baseline. Example: 'DAU → 12k (from 8k)' or 'NPS → 45 (from 31)'.
Dot vote on each objective's key results. Circle the winners. Cross out the rest. Each objective should end up with two to four key results — enough to be meaningful, few enough to be trackable.
Write a name or team initial next to each key result. Unowned key results are aspirations, not commitments. This is often the most contentious five minutes of the meeting — worth it.
Open BoardSnap. The board should show objectives as section headers and key results as indented bullets under each. VisionKit corrects the perspective. BoardSnap AI reads the hierarchy.
A structured OKR document with each objective as a header and its key results listed underneath — including the metric targets and owners you wrote on the board. The output is formatted for direct pasting into Notion, Confluence, or a Google Doc. It reads like a real OKR doc, not a transcript of a whiteboard.
Four founders plus three team leads, three hours, two whiteboards. One board for the company-level OKRs, one for team-level. BoardSnap produced two structured docs. The CEO shared both to the company Slack before the offsite dinner ended. The team spent zero additional time cleaning up meeting notes.
The company OKRs were already set. The PM team used a whiteboard to draft their team OKRs that cascaded from the company level. BoardSnap's output went straight into the PM team's Notion OKR database — objectives as page titles, key results as database properties.
A growth agency ran a working session with a client to set shared OKRs for the engagement. The whiteboard was the negotiation artifact. BoardSnap turned it into a client-facing doc that both parties signed off on the same day — no back-and-forth email drafts.
Yes — if they're visually distinct. Write objective titles larger or in a different color. Write key results as indented bullet points under each objective. The visual hierarchy is what BoardSnap AI reads to separate them.
BoardSnap AI recognizes strikethrough lines as deletions and excludes those items from the structured output. They may appear in a 'considered but removed' section if you want the full record, but the main output contains only the circled/remaining items.
Yes. Snap a progress check-in board mid-quarter — same structure, with current metric values written next to targets. BoardSnap will produce a progress summary. Store both snaps in the same project to track the delta.
A standard 4x8 whiteboard comfortably fits four to five objectives with two to three key results each. More than that and text gets small — split onto two boards and snap each separately.
Snap the board, ship the action items in ten seconds.