Why this goal

A goal Corto proposed has a reason it exists. This is that reason, with the record behind it.

No finding sits behind this one. It was written by its owner rather than proposed from the diagnosis, which is not a fault — but it means Corto cannot tell you why it exists, only whether it holds up.

It serves The company can lose any one person without losing what they know., a department goal.

Every record under every number in this goal — where it came from, how it was read, and when it was true.

• Employee master spreadsheet supplied by the company

  the company's own figure, not a record

  Used for: Days from joining to a first real piece of work: 11 → 3

  The record

  Mehta Auto - Employee Master (Jul 2026).xlsx, uploaded 19 Aug 2026

  How read

  read as supplied; no row was corrected, merged or inferred

  True as of

  19 Aug 2026 · refreshed on re-upload

If every one of them lands, is the goal true? If the answer is no, the goal is measuring the wrong things.

A joiner who waits eleven days for a laptop and a plan has learned what this company is like. Both numbers are about the first week, and about filling the roles the plan needs.

SMART, checked against the goal itself. Where Corto asks more than SMART does, it says so — it is not a badge, it is what was actually tested.

• S

  Specific

  holds

  The goal names a change, and leaves every number to its key results.

  SMART asks a goal to be specific. Corto asks it to be specific WITHOUT a number in it, so the target can move without rewriting what the company is trying to do.

• M

  Measurable

  holds

  All 2 key results carry a start value, a target, a unit and the record they are read from.

  SMART asks for a number. Corto asks WHERE THE NUMBER COMES FROM — the actual record — because a target nobody can read is not measurable, it is only numeric.

• A

  Achievable

  not yet

  Nothing is being done about this yet — no initiative sits under it.

  Corto does not judge whether an ambition is realistic — that is the founder's to set. It checks the two things it can see: that somebody is working on it, and that the number can actually be read.

• R

  Relevant

  holds

  It serves “The company can lose any one person without losing what they know.”, which is HR & Admin's.

  SMART asks whether a goal matters. Corto asks WHAT IT SERVES, by name, all the way up to one of the three destinations — so relevance is a chain you can follow rather than an opinion.

• T

  Time-bound

  holds

  It runs to FY 2026-27, and nothing is scored before that period begins.

Read this before you argue with anybody using the rest of the page. A case that states no limit is a sales sheet.

• Employee master spreadsheet supplied by the company — the company's own figure, not a record

  This is the company's own figure, not a filed or system record. Anything resting on it inherits that.

• What Employee master spreadsheet supplied by the company cannot tell you

  who a person actually works toanyone the file does not listthe three rows left blankwhen a listed line was last trueanything about people outside the desk layer