I Spent $60,000 on an EOS Consultant and $500/Hour on OKR Setup. Both Failed. Here's Why.

I've Been in the Room. Multiple Times.

I've worked with more than 50 people trying to set up OKRs across companies. We paid $60,000 for an EOS consultant to handle and create our own EOS setup.

At another company, we spent $500 per hour for a consultant to build a 100% OKR setup from scratch.

The setup was always great. The problem was everything that came after.

$60,000 for Five Days of Excitement and a Folder of Templates

For $60,000, we got the EOS consultant for five full days. The whole day, every day, he talked about the EOS system, the vision, the traction, the scorecard, how everything connects. He gave us Excel sheets, trackers, templates, and reporting frameworks.

The deliverables were mind-blowing. Genuinely. When we received that folder, we thought this was going to change how we run the company.

It didn't.

Every spreadsheet, every tracker, every template they were all beautifully designed and completely worthless. Not because they were bad. Because the team was never going to use them consistently. We didn't know that in the beginning. We were too excited.

We thought the consultant's ideas, the trackers, the frameworks, that all of this was the answer. But frameworks don't execute themselves. People do. And people weren't doing it.