Product Update: Guided Onboarding, AI OKR Coach, and Kudos Planning Poker

From First Click to First OKR

ValYouRise v0.7.0-alpha ships three features that close the gap between signing up and running your first OKR cycle: guided tours that show you around, an AI Coach that builds your first OKR tree, and Planning Poker that brings your team into the estimation process. This release also consolidates the Design System work from v0.6.0.

Let's dive in.

Interactive Onboarding Tours

New users no longer need to figure out the interface on their own. ValYouRise now includes a guided tour system that activates automatically on first visit:

• Dashboard Tour (7 steps): walks through the organization selector, pending invitations, workspace list, sidebar navigation, members, settings, and the help menu.
• Board Tour (10 steps): covers the workspace header, view tabs, OKR canvas, create buttons, auto-layout, filters, minimap, zoom controls, AI assistant, and the OKR Coach.

Each tour uses a spotlight overlay to highlight the active element and a tooltip card that explains what you are looking at. You navigate with arrow keys or click through. Press Escape to skip at any time.

Tours adapt to screen size — desktop-only steps are hidden on mobile. Progress persists to localStorage and syncs to your Appwrite user preferences, so completed tours never repeat across devices. You can replay any tour from the help menu in the top navigation.

Adding new tours requires only a definition file and one registration line. No type changes, no i18n updates, no navbar modifications.

AI OKR Coach

Setting up OKRs from scratch is the hardest part of adopting the framework. The new AI OKR Coach guides you through a three-phase wizard:

1. Company Context — industry, company size, revenue range, and customer base. Pre-filled from your organization settings when available.
2. Strategy — vision, mission, current priorities, and the challenges you are facing.
3. Team and Timeframe — select the team members involved, choose a timeframe (quarter or year), and set an ambition level: conservative, balanced, or ambitious.

The Coach sends this context to an AI model and returns a structured OKR tree: Objectives with nested Key Results and Actions. Each item includes a suggested owner and story point estimate.

You review and edit the entire tree before applying. Rename items, reassign owners, remove what does not fit. Nothing hits the board without your approval. One click creates all items with proper hierarchy, links, and auto-layout positioning.

Access the Coach from the empty board state — click "Draft with AI" when your workspace has no items yet. The Board Tour also points it out in step 10.

Kudos Planning Poker (Preview)

Estimating effort should be a team exercise, not a solo guess. Kudos Planning Poker brings real-time collaborative estimation to ValYouRise:

• 60-second timed rounds with a visual countdown that pulses in the final seconds.
• Fibonacci scale (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21) — pick a card, lock in your vote.
• Live vote tracking — see how many team members have voted without revealing their choices.
• Results with consensus — after the timer expires, all votes are revealed. The median is calculated and snapped to the nearest Fibonacci number.

Any workspace admin or item owner can start a round from the board toolbar or list view context menu. All workspace members receive a notification and can vote from wherever they are — even from a different workspace via the global notification bell.

Planning Poker is feature-flagged per workspace. Enable it under Workspace Settings, Features. You can also enforce story-points-via-Kudos-only mode, which prevents manual point edits outside of rounds.

This feature is in Preview. Expect refinements based on early feedback.

Design System (v0.6.0 Recap)

Between the last blog post and this one, ValYouRise shipped a complete design system:

• 50+ CSS design tokens for colors, typography, spacing, and motion with full light and dark theme support.
• 22 atomic components: Button, Field, Avatar, Icon, Switch, Pill, Tabs, Progress, and more.
• 10 composed components: Card, Toast, Modal, EmptyState, MemberRow, and more.
• Full removal of HeroUI and react-icons dependencies.

Every surface — public and private — now renders from a single token-based system.

Under the Hood

• SideNav component: A new reusable sidebar component replaced inline navigation patterns across dashboard and workspace settings. Supports icons, active state, danger variant, external links, and tour integration.
• CMS auto-fill: Selecting an image in the article editor now populates alt text, credit, and credit URL from the Media library automatically.
• TypeScript 6: The codebase runs on the latest TypeScript compiler.
• Dependency upgrades: Appwrite SDK 24/25, Zod 4, Framer Motion 12.38, and various package updates.

What Comes Next

User statistics dashboards, advanced board filtering, and team analytics are the next priorities. Follow the changelog for incremental updates between releases.