Keep teams working towards Business Goals
See how work connects to business goals. When strategy pivots or delivery hits problems, the impact is shared across teams, giving everyone the same clear view.
The gap between plan and reality can quickly grow
Five problems every team experiences and Carbon14 solves
Why does my work matter?
You're working on something, but can't explain how it connects to business goals. The connection is invisible or lives in someone's head.
Leadership doesn't see our constraints
You have execution issues and resource constraints but they stay localized. By the time leadership hears about them, it's too late to intervene.
Strategic shifts take forever to reach us
Leadership makes a decision, but it takes weeks to understand what that means for your actual work. You keep working on things that may no longer matter.
The story gets lost
When did confidence start dropping? Who raised concerns? What was the reasoning? It's all scattered across Slack, emails, and meetings—impossible to reconstruct.
It's not safe to surface problems early
Raising concerns feels risky. What if you're blamed? What if it escalates? Better to stay quiet and hope things work out.
We don't know when projects stop mattering
Projects continue on momentum even when relevance declines. No forcing function to validate if work still matters. Zombie projects waste months before someone questions them.
70%
of strategies fail due to execution problems
55%
of team effort goes to misaligned work
40%
don't see how their work connects to goals
The question isn't whether drift happens. It's how quickly you see it and can respond.
The difference is immediate visibility
When you can see how work connects to goals, and everyone sees the same reality, waste disappears and issues surface early.
Without Carbon14
Invisible relationships
Dependencies between work and goals live in people's heads, you can't see what affects what
Information travels through people
Strategic changes reach teams in days/weeks through Slack, email, meetings, each person filters differently
Wasted work goes unnoticed
Teams work on deprioritized features for weeks—no forcing function to validate if work still matters
Constraints surface as crises
Execution issues stay local until they're big problems, leadership finds out when it's too late to intervene
Context gets lost
The story of decisions scattered across Slack, email, meetings, it's impossible to reconstruct who knew what, when
Cost: Significant risk of wasted work on misaligned priorities. Issues discovered weeks after they could have been addressed.
With Carbon14
Relationships are visible
See exactly how work areas connect to projects, and projects connect to goals—dependencies explicit and trackable
Changes cascade automatically
Strategic shifts flow down to teams in minutes with full context, execution constraints flow up to leadership immediately
Drift becomes visible early
Confidence tracking + decay engine forces validation, you can catch misaligned work at week 3, not month 3
Issues surface before they're crises
Resource constraints and technical blockers cascade up, leadership sees problems early enough to intervene
Full story captured
Audit trail preserves who raised concerns, when, and why, organizational memory that protects honest assessment
Value: Catch drift weeks earlier. Stop wasted work. Surface issues while intervention is possible. Same reality for everyone.
The key: Everyone sees how their work connects to goals, and changes propagate automatically with full context.
How Carbon14 connects the dots
Your business already works in three levels. Carbon14 makes the connections explicit and trackable.
Goals
What you want to achieve
Projects
How you deliver goals
Work Areas
How you execute projects
What makes Carbon14 different
Tracks confidence, not completion
A project can be "on track" but have declining strategic health. Carbon14 measures your confidence that goals remain relevant, projects stay aligned, and work areas are viable.
Clear ownership models
Every goal, project, and work area has an assigned health owner. Everyone knows who's responsible for keeping confidence scores current. No ambiguity.
Decay engine forces validation
Health scores naturally decrease over time without updates. It's a reflection prompt: "Is this still true?" Prevents zombie projects and makes invisible drift visible.
Captures the story that gets lost
Every update records who, when, what, and why. The narrative context that usually disappears in Slack is preserved as organizational memory.
Live dashboard showing health across all three levels with cascade visualization
10-minute setup: List your goals, projects, work areas. Assign health owners. Set baseline confidence. Done.
Quick simple updates when confidence changes and decay needs a reset.
Why it's safe to surface problems early
Carbon14 creates structural transparency that makes raising concerns less risky through its audit trail and narrative context.
Attribution + Context = Reduced Risk
Who
Every update captures who made the assessment
When
Timestamped proof you raised it early
Why
Your reasoning at that moment is preserved
For Teams
- Safer to say "I'm 60% confident" with reasoning than stay silent
- If an issue escalates, you have proof you flagged it early
- Can't be unfairly blamed for systemic issues you identified with context
For Leadership
- See concerns WITH context, not just looking for blame
- Know when concerns emerged so you can act early
- Can only act on what you know—early visibility enables early intervention
Where structural transparency works best
Organizations with decent but imperfect communication cultures where people want transparency but fear consequences
Truly toxic cultures where any dissent is punished regardless of context or timing
Already healthy cultures with perfect transparency (though audit trail still valuable)
Carbon14 helps enable cultural change rather than requiring it first.
See Carbon14 in Action
Four capabilities that catch drift before it becomes expensive
See how work connects to goals
Map your goals, projects, and work areas once. Relationships become visible, show leadership what you're managing in seconds, not hours of PowerPoint.
Changes cascade automatically
When anything changes, strategic shift or execution constraint, impact flows up and down immediately. Everyone sees the same reality with full context.
Identify problems sooner
Confidence tracking + automatic decay reveals drift at week 3 instead of month 3. Surface issues while intervention is still possible.
Full story captured with context
Every update records who, when, what, and why. Organizational memory that protects honest assessment—prove you raised concerns early.
See the difference structural visibility makes when constraints threaten strategic goals
Experience the Interactive Demo5 minute guided scenario • Experience both with and without Carbon14
Early signals from beta participants
Feedback from teams in their first 1-3 weeks of testing
"I manage 8 projects and its hard to explain how they all connected. Spent an hour in leadership meeting trying to show dependencies with slides. Set up Carbon14 in 15 minutes, showed them the dashboard, they got it immediately. Everyone could finally see what I've been trying to tell them."
"Our EHR vendor announced a delay in week 2. I updated the work area confidence and it cascaded to 3 projects automatically. I could easily show the impact on our patient portal goal immediately, with context and reasoning. Before this, that would've taken hours of emails and meetings."
"I was spending 6-7 hours every week writing status updates. Now I just simply update confidence when something actually changes. The dependencies are already mapped, so everyone sees the impact automatically. Got 5 hours back in my first week."
"Had a security requirement change mid-sprint. I could see exactly what changed, when, and the full reasoning in the audit trail. Walked into the retrospective with a complete timeline showing when we knew what. Turned a blame session into a learning conversation."
Carbon14 is in private beta. Early testers are seeing immediate value from visualization and cascades within their first week.
Get Your AssessmentBuilt for everyone who needs visibility
For Teams
- Understand how your work contributes to business goals
- Make constraints visible early with context protection
- Get protected by timestamped proof when you surface concerns
- See strategic changes immediately with full context
For Team Leads & PMs
- Get early warning when project health declines
- See all projects and their goal connections at a glance
- Stop being the translation layer between strategy and execution
- Have the story captured automatically with audit trail
For Leadership
- See execution constraints before they derail strategic goals
- Understand cascade effects of decisions immediately
- Know when concerns emerged so you can intervene early
- Have narrative context that usually gets lost in Slack
Works with your existing process
Agile, Waterfall, SAFe, Kanban, or hybrid—Carbon14 adds the visibility layer that shows how everything connects.
Common questions
What is Carbon14?
Carbon14 shows teams how their work connects to business goals and makes constraints visible before they become crises. It's a visibility layer that tracks confidence across goals, projects, and work areas—showing what connects to what and what happens when things change.
How is Carbon14 different from project management tools like Jira or Asana?
PM tools track task completion and ask "Are we on track?" Carbon14 tracks confidence and asks "Does this still matter and how does it connect?" PM tools work at the task level within teams; Carbon14 works at the epic level across organizational levels.
What problem does Carbon14 actually solve?
Carbon14 solves the invisible connection problem: teams can't see how their work connects to business goals, leadership can't see execution constraints early, and strategic shifts take weeks to reach teams. The story of what happened gets lost in Slack and emails.
How does Carbon14 actually work?
You map your goals, projects, and work areas once (10-20 minutes setup). Assign a health owner to each element. When confidence changes, the owner updates it with context (2 minutes). Changes automatically cascade up and down, everyone sees the same reality, and the full story is captured in an audit trail.
Why should I use Carbon14 instead of just better communication?
Good communication still requires manual effort to aggregate information across levels and reconstruct context from scattered sources. Carbon14 provides structural visibility that's automatic and continuous—showing goal level impact without anyone having to manually integrate project statuses.
What does "strategic health" mean?
Strategic health measures organizational confidence that something remains relevant, aligned, and viable—not completion or progress. A project can be "on track" but have declining strategic health if confidence in its relevance is dropping.
What are "cascades" and why do they matter?
Cascades are automatic ripple effects when confidence changes at any level. Strategic shifts flow down (goals → projects → work areas), and execution constraints flow up (work areas → projects → goals). Everyone sees the impact immediately with full context—no delays or manual translation.
What is "structural transparency" and why does it matter?
Structural transparency means the audit trail captures who, when, what, and WHY for every update. This creates context protection if you surface a concern early, you have timestamped proof with your reasoning. This makes honesty less risky in decent but imperfect cultures.
Will Carbon14 work with my existing tools and workflows?
Yes. Carbon14 is designed to work alongside everything you already use—no integration needed. Your PM tool tracks tasks, your methodology handles delivery, Carbon14 shows connections and tracks confidence. Different purposes, complementary value, lightweight and standalone.
How much does Carbon14 cost?
$30 per project per month. Pay with credit card—no procurement process, contracts, or commitments. Cancel anytime. Typical costs: Small team (5-8 projects) = $150-240/month, Medium team (10-15 projects) = $300-450/month, Large team (20+ projects) = $600+/month.
Have more questions? Check out our complete FAQ for detailed answers.
Stop finding out about drift when it's already a crisis
See connections. Track confidence. Make constraints visible early with structural transparency that reduces risk.