How to use the North star and input metrics template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the North star and input metrics template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “North star and input metrics”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“The north star measures value for customers, not revenue for you. Each input should be owned by one team and move within weeks, not years.”
Fill in each part
- Frequency How often do they come back?
- Breadth How many people get value?
- North star The one number that grows when customers get value.
- Depth How much value does each get?
- Efficiency How quickly do they reach value?
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the North star and input metrics board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

Metric tree
Break one top-level metric into the drivers that move it and the levers teams control, so every team sees its link to the goal.
Product vision on a page
Say where the product is going in one page: the change it makes, for whom, what it will never be, and how we’ll know it worked.
Opportunity solution tree
One outcome, the customer opportunities behind it, solutions for each and the experiments to test them.
RICE scoring
Score ideas by reach, impact, confidence and effort, so the backlog order has reasons.
Opportunity scoring
Find under-served needs: score how important each outcome is to customers and how satisfied they are today, then chase the biggest gaps.
Assumption test plan
For each risky assumption behind a plan: how we will test it, what we will measure, where the pass line is and what we found.