How Agora saved 30 hours per quarter with a custom monday vibe OKR app

Meet Agora

Founded in 2019, Agora is the global operating system for real estate investment management, comprising software and services. The platform supports the full investment lifecycle, bringing together fundraising, investor onboarding, investment management, accounting, and financial workflows in a single system designed for firms operating at scale. Headquartered in Tel Aviv and New York, with offices in Miami, Austin, and additional global locations, Agora is trusted by leading real estate organizations such as Kushner, Carter, Faropoint, and Broccolini to run their modern, complex investment operations.

Agora began using monday.com after hitting the 100-employee mark in 2023 to align and manage work across teams, including customer success, product, operations, marketing, and finance.

The challenge

As Agora scaled, so did its need for clear, internal reporting. The organization relied heavily on Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), a framework for defining objectives and tracking progress through concrete, measurable results. Implementing OKRs gives leadership the visibility needed to keep all departments focused on the most important organizational goals.

However, as the business grew, tracking and presenting OKR metrics became a heavy operational lift. Each quarter, directors and VPs spent 30 hours manually consolidating OKR data into static presentation decks. This labor-intensive process led to a few major roadblocks:

• Frustrating version control issues due to duplicate templates
• Frequent reporting inaccuracies
• A lack of live data for senior management to make confident strategic decisions 

Agora needed a single, real-time source of truth to track departmental results and give leadership immediate visibility into company-wide OKRs.

“Our OKRs lived in multiple slide versions with similar names, which meant leadership was often reacting to outdated, static snapshots  instead of live performance.”

The solution

Why monday vibe?

After experiencing monday vibe in action at Evolve, a monday customer event, Agora realized they could build its own custom OKR tracking solution with ease. What stood out most was its simplicity — what might have taken weeks of development was transformed into a fully functional OKR app in just minutes. Instead of adding another disconnected tool to its stack, Agora created a tailored solution that fit seamlessly into its existing workflows, based on data that was consistent, accurate, and reliable.

Best of all, creating a custom OKR tracking solution with monday vibe was completely frictionless. No code, setup, or steep learning curves — Agora simply
described the exact tool they needed, in plain language, and Vibe handled the rest. The app was built right where the Agora teams already operate, seamlessly leveraging its existing workflows and real-time data flowing through monday.com.

Plus, by staying within the monday.com AI Work Platform, the custom app automatically inherited the company’s strict governance and permission-aware security, and delivered polished, high-level OKR reports without the risk of third-party integration.

Agora left fragmented slide decks behind and gained an automated system that actually matched how its organization operates. The new OKR tracker successfully bridged the gap between strategy and execution, creating a real-time, direct, visible link between company-wide goals and individual departmental tasks.

The cross-functional rollout

Since the initial pilot, 10 directors and VPs across the company have been onboarded to the in-house vibe app to create their OKR presentations. It was clear from their first demo how simple it was to track their dedicated key results and present their findings in a way that felt accurate and looked polished. 

The Impact

Instead of relying on scattered tools like Google Docs and Slides—where data was outdated almost as soon as it was shared — Agora built a custom OKR tracker with monday vibe, centralizing live reporting in minutes.

The impact was immediate and felt across every level of the business:

• Teams gained real-time visibility into cross-functional goals, instantly spotting what’s on track and what’s at risk.
• Directors and VPs reclaimed ~30 hours per quarter previously spent building executive decks.
• Senior leadership now accesses live, company-wide performance data on demand—enabling faster, more informed strategic decisions without waiting for static reports.

Up next

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Agora plans to scale the solution by onboarding 100 individual team members to track how their daily initiatives impact larger OKRs, creating a fully aligned organization where everyone understands their role in achieving collective success.

They also plan to display the OKR dashboards on screens throughout the office, giving the entire organization complete transparency into collective goal progress.

"Vibe not only saves us time, but it saves time for our senior leadership - allowing them to focus on other elements of their workday and business."

Agora realized the endless potential of monday vibe and uses it for several other organizational needs, including feature lifecycle tracking, North Star metric statuses, customer QBR presentations, and churn analysis. As the business scales, monday vibe provides the flexibility to adapt without outgrowing existing systems.

“We didn’t need another tool. What we needed was to build on our existing workflows, given that all the information was readily available. monday vibe was easy to create, edit, and manage, and a valuable tailor-made solution to present to leadership.”

— Asaf Goldstof, Director of Efficiency & AI, Agora

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