Hoshin Kanri keeps your strategy on one living page. Your AI assistant shows what a reported deviation touches; your committee decides.
No account needed.
You. The milling shop reports the inspection camera is down for three weeks. What does it affect? Claude. The machine-vision quality initiative, which carries the customer non-conformity objective of 0.8% (1.4% today). Moving the target or compensating is your call. Shall I file it in the inbox, linked to that objective, for Monday’s review?
Lean managers, BU directors, steering committees: the time goes on chasing owners, retyping numbers and rebuilding decks. The X-Matrix made once in Miro or Excel is already out of date on review day. Your agent collects progress and drafts the agenda; the meeting starts at the disagreement, not the status round.
Mecanor is a fictional 120-person machining company with a complete X-Matrix. Click an element to light its chain, then ask the assistant:
Hoshin does not plug into your systems. Each agent keeps its access and its rhythm; they all read the same X-Matrix, and what they file is for people to decide.
Your systems, your rights
Prepares reviews and summaries
Links quality issues to objectives
Watches indicators on its own schedule
Follows the plant matrix, under the group’s
Objectives, initiatives, indicators and the links between them, read through MCP. Score, chains and cascade are computed, not generated.
No line from here to your systems: the agents make that link.
Proposals, in the inbox
The agent then acts in its own tools, if you allow it.
Get its completeness score without an account. We keep no copy of your file.
The X-Matrix: 3-5 year objectives (North), annual objectives (East), initiatives (South), KPIs (West) — linked by correlation strength in all four corners. Nothing enters the strategy without earning its place in the chain. Shareable by read-only link — and compact enough for an agent to hold entirely in context.
A 5-level meeting hierarchy from strategic reviews to daily stand-ups. Agendas, action items and decisions traced from vision to daily work — the catchball, structured. The review is where strategy deploys or dies.
5 computed metrics — coverage, correlation density, orphans, vision-to-KPI chains, leading/lagging indicator balance. One number that answers the only question that matters: would this strategy survive contact with reality?
Policy deployment aligns your 3-5 year vision with daily actions.
3 to 5 breakthrough objectives for the next 3-5 years — the North of the X-Matrix. Few enough to mean something.
What must be true this year for the vision to stay credible (East). Negotiated with the teams — the catchball — not decreed.
Improvement initiatives (South) and the indicators that will prove they work (West) — an owner on every row.
A 5-level meeting hierarchy, from strategic review to weekly sync. The review is where strategy deploys or dies.
Decisions traced, initiatives re-arbitrated, the matrix kept alive — hansei, the reflection that closes the loop.
Connect an assistant in two minutes, or have an admin create a token for an autonomous agent on its own schedule. The agent reaches your MES, QMS, ERP or Jira through their MCP server or a bridge: Hoshin does not connect to them. Every teammate brings their own, your consultant too, each with their own rights. The agent proposes; people decide.
Strategy, reviews and KPIs → Hoshin Kanri. Work orders, non-conformities, tasks and tickets → your own tools.
Compatible with any agent through MCP · 18 tools · 9 guided prompts · OAuth 2.1 and API tokens
Give this address to your own AI assistant and ask for a verdict:
Read https://hoshin.app/llms.txt and tell me honestly whether my organization should use this — including the reasons not to.
Our machine documentation includes the cases where the honest answer is no.
Query the demo matrix from your own agent (read-only MCP token in llms.txt)
Quality, process engineering and each plant on the same matrix, with their own agents and their own systems.
Read the use case →One negotiated matrix, a fixed review cadence, decisions that stop evaporating.
Read the use case →Initiatives linked to their projects in your execution tool; the weekly sync closes the strategy-execution gap.
Read the use case →One isolated organization per client, agent-prepared reviews, a method that survives the mission.
Read the use case →A steering tool has 5-10 active users — pricing by seat punishes adoption. Every paid tier has a 30-day free trial, no credit card. No sales call, no paid onboarding — your agent sets you up.
Early access: everything is unlocked during the beta — and early adopters keep an advantage when billing starts.
The X-Matrix is the central tool of Hoshin Kanri (policy deployment), a strategic planning method from Japanese quality management, since taken up by lean practitioners. It aligns four quadrants on one page: 3-5 year strategic objectives (North), annual objectives (East), improvement initiatives (South) and KPIs (West), with correlation marks showing how each level supports the next. It makes the chain from vision to daily work visible — and auditable.
Yes, with a frame. On its own it forgets between sessions. Connected through MCP, it reads the objectives, links and KPIs, prepares reviews and flags gaps. People decide. Supported today: claude.ai, Claude Desktop, Cursor.
For one person, honestly: yes, at first — the way Excel is fine for a first cycle. Our free local mode is exactly that, done well: structured JSON on your machine, the same MCP tools, completeness score included. DIY breaks when other people join: a file has no identities — no per-user rights for your CFO, your consultant or an intern's agent, no validation that objectives actually chain down to KPIs, no review cadences carrying decisions and action items. A skill tells an agent how to work; it cannot be the shared, permissioned state a leadership team works on. That is the part you pay for.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the open standard that lets AI assistants like Claude use external tools. Hoshin Kanri ships an MCP server: an agent can read your matrix, capture ideas mid-conversation, update initiative statuses, diagnose how well a strategic theme is deployed, and run a weekly sync against your execution tool. You connect it to claude.ai with OAuth in about two minutes.
No. The agent does, through the system's own MCP server or a bridge your IT team builds, under the rights that system grants. Hoshin holds no connector and no access to your systems. An agent that reads both can tell you which objective a drifting indicator serves.
It can connect with an API token, on its own schedule. The schedule runs on your side: Hoshin runs no loop for you. We have not run a 24-hour test yet. Two limits today: filing an idea requires a write token, which can also change the matrix and publish it on a public page, and nothing removes duplicates. The manufacturing page explains how to work with them.
No, by design. Your systems keep the work orders, non-conformities, tasks and tickets. Hoshin Kanri keeps the strategy: objectives, initiatives, KPIs and reviews. An initiative can carry a link (external_ref) to its project, and the weekly_sync agent prompt keeps the two aligned without double data entry.
In the hosted version, your matrices are stored in France (OVH), every query is scoped to your organization, and everything is encrypted in transit. Hoshin Kanri calls no AI model on your matrices: your strategy reaches a model only when your own agent reads it, under your contract with that model's provider. We use your data for nothing but the service: no training, no analysis, no resale. Like any host, we keep technical access to the database; our admin console shows the names of your matrices, not their content. If your business requires that nobody but you can read it, use the local mode: the matrix lives in files on your machine and never passes through our servers.
We build what verified organizations ask for, in the order they ask. One click records the request; we only come back to you if we start building it.
Agents watch and prepare. The X-Matrix tells them why, what comes first and how success is measured. People decide. Free to start, two minutes to connect the first one.
Create your X-Matrix