So you've logged in to Empiraa for the first time. Maybe you took a look at our AI toolkit or walk-through guide. Now it's time to set up your plan.

Watch our quick video running you through how to set your plan up.

Watch the intro video and learn a bit more about what to expect from Empiraa.

Upload your logo and enter some more basic company details.

Input your vision statement. This is the guiding vision of your business and the impact you want to achieve in the long run. It should be short, concise and powerful.

Time to set some core values. These are the top 4-8 values that define your business, shape culture and guide decision-making.

Now it's time to get into the Empiraa spirit and create your company pillars. The pillars are the heartbeat and guiding principles of your plan. Think of them like your big 3-5 year goals that give your business direction.

We require four pillars minimum. You can add more by scrolling to the bottom of the page. You can also come back and edit these whenever you like.

Let's add the teams you want in your plan. These may be a direct copy of how your departments look within your business or you may choose to structure these differently ie. project based.

Now we add our people. There are two ways you can do this. Either manually clicking Add People where you can input individuals or through the File Import button where you can upload a CSV with all your staff and their details.

Access level is where you can control the restrictions around which members of your team can see what. Employees have the standard level of visibility and won't be able to see certain objectives and pillars that have a restricted view. Executives can see everything on the plan and can also make changes to the core plan as well.

We recommend considering these roles carefully and only assigning Executive status to senior managers within your organization.

Watch the video on how to assign people to your teams.

In this step we go through the teams one by one and move people from the left column into the right to assign them to a team.

The highlighted red boxes show you what team we are assigning people to. By clicking the arrows beside the names you can move people back and forth easily.

The purple bar in the top right shows your progress through the teams. Just click through each team and put the right people in. You will need to assign one Team leader to each team.

Here you will assign the custom access URL for your plan. This gives a customized experience to your whole team and make it easier to remember.

The final step in our setup process is to create your first objective so you can see the plan come alive.

We are going to create an example so you can see exactly what this looks like. As a part of iDonut's mission to become the number 1 donut company in Australia we want to expand our product offering and build out some new flavours. To make an objective around that we will do the following:

Assign the objective to a company pillar

Give it a title, description and assign it to the right team member

Because our target is 10, this will be a metric-based KPI. We would like to get 10 or more flavours made and this objective will run for a year. We want Homer to check in monthly with how he is tracking, so we will remind him on the 1st of each month.

When you press save you will be taken to the draft page. From here you can either create more actions that break this goal down to even smaller tasks to achieve or you can just publish.

In this example, we will publish, but we recommend businesses build another level of aligned objectives to make it easier to reach your goals.

Now you can access Empiraa's full dashboard called myHub. Click through the different views so you can see your own objectives, your teams and the full businesses. This creates great visibility for everyone.