Inspire Software

9.3 Product Release

Notes & Highlights of Our Newest Features

Inspire Version 9.3 delivers one of our most forward-thinking updates yet, and designed to make strategy execution smarter, faster, and more connected across your organization. From AI-driven productivity to deeper strategy control, enhanced integrations, and a smoother user experience, this release empowers leaders and teams to operate with clarity, speed, and impact.

Whether you’re an existing client or exploring platforms to level up your strategy and OKR execution, these updates showcase Inspire’s ongoing commitment to innovation and real-world business value.

Inspire AI: Automation That Drives Strategy Forward

✅ Value: Boost productivity, reduce admin overhead, and make strategy execution more responsive across every level of your organization.

Inspire Agent for Microsoft Copilot & Teams (BETA Version): Interact with Inspire directly through your existing workflows. Use Copilot and Teams to ask questions, create tasks, update progress, and more—without opening the app. Watch a short video clip on this new feature.

In-App Automated Agents (BETA Version): Inspire now includes an Automated Agents tab in the User Profile Dashboard with four powerful assistants designed to handle routine tasks and keep strategy execution moving—without manual effort. Here’s what the first set of agents can do:

Strategy Review Prep Agent: Automatically compiles updates on your corporate objectives and delivers them to your inbox on a schedule you choose—perfect for weekly check-ins or monthly business reviews.

Weekly OKR Planning Agent: Reviews your current work, progress, and gaps, then suggests high-impact tasks to focus on each week so you can stay aligned and prioritize effectively.

1:1 Agenda Builder Agent: Sends a weekly overview of your direct reports’ progress, suggested coaching areas, and key focus points—helping you walk into one-on-ones prepared and informed.
Recognition Suggestion Agent: Surfaces notable accomplishments from check-ins and recommends recognition messages or awards—making it easy to acknowledge great work consistently.

Let AI take care of administrative essentials. These agents reduce the need to manually dig through updates, reports, and feeds, which helps teams focus on decisions, not manual work. Watch a short video clip on this new feature.

Corporate Strategy

More Control, Clarity, and Strategic Alignment

✅ Value: Maintain strategic integrity while enabling nuanced alignment and visibility where it matters most.

Private Corporate Objectives: Set access rules to control who can align and who can view high-level objectives—ideal for sensitive initiatives, executive-only work, or phased rollout strategies. Watch a short video clip on this new feature.

New Strategy Hierarchy View: A cleaner, more intuitive visual structure makes it easier to see how objectives and key results connect across levels. Watch a short video clip on this new feature.

CKR-to-CKR Alignment Across Strategies: Enable more sophisticated nesting and linkage between strategies for divisions, departments, or business units. Watch a short video clip on this new feature.

Corporate Objective Side Panel: View progress, contributors, and status updates—without losing your place in the strategy view. Watch a short video clip on this new feature.

Objectives

Greater Flexibility and a Better Contributor Experience

✅ Value: Easier collaboration, smarter measurement, and faster reporting across teams and functions.

Updated Team Objective Workflow: When a team objective is published, contributors are automatically notified—no more accept/decline steps required.

New Key Result Types: For metrics that must stay above or below a threshold (e.g., “Maintain NPS above 70” or “Keep churn below 5%”), you can now set directional KR types that don’t rely on start-to-target progression. Watch a short video clip on this new feature.

Newsfeed Filters for Departments & BUs: Quickly filter check-ins by department or business unit for better visibility across teams.

Integrations

Connect Performance Data to the Tools You Already Use

✅ Value: Close the gap between insights and execution with live data and seamless workflows.

Tableau as a Data Source for KR Progress: Beyond dashboard embeds, you can now feed progress directly from Tableau reports into metric-based key results.

Salesforce Analytics Integration: Pull real-time data from Salesforce reports to automate KR tracking and eliminate manual updates.

Enhanced Inspire for Teams App: Access all Inspire modules without leaving Microsoft Teams—strategy, OKRs, check-ins, and more.

Additional Enhancements

More Refinements for a Smoother Experience

✅ Value: Increased efficiency, reporting accuracy, and user experience across day-to-day interactions.

Admins can now set a default strategy view for all users.

Appraisal downloads now include objective details for better performance insights.

The Newsfeed shows both team and individual progress.

Add precision with new start/end date filters in Objective Explorer.

Quickly access all contributor check-ins from the side panel of a team objective.

Minor UI improvements across modules enhance clarity and usability.

Ready to See What’s New?

Inspire 9.3 combines cutting-edge AI functionality, flexible strategy governance, and deeper data connectivity––delivering a platform that not only supports your goals but accelerates them.

If you’d like a walkthrough of the new features or early access previews of what’s coming next, please contact your Client Success Representative or Click here to Book a Personalized Demo! We’re here to make adoption seamless and impactful.

One Platform to execute your strategy.

Inspire isn’t just another OKR tool, strategy software, or continuous performance management system.

We align every initiative, every goal—directly linked to your top-level strategy, so nothing gets lost in translation.

Why Strategy Execution Matters

Organizations don’t fail because they lack ideas — they fail because they struggle to turn strategy into action. That’s where Inspire comes in.

With Inspire, you can:

Achieve OKRs & Goals: Align company, team, and individual objectives so everyone is working toward the outcomes that matter most.
Elevate Performance & Culture: Build a culture of accountability and engagement where progress is visible, celebrated, and sustained.
Develop Effective Leaders: Equip managers and executives with the tools they need to coach, guide, and inspire high-performing teams.

Unlike one-off tools, Inspire connects strategy execution, leadership development, and cultural alignment in a single platform — so your workforce doesn’t just plan, it performs.