We analyzed 20,582 strategic plans. Get a copy of the full report.
Cascade plans for everyone. We built ClearPoint around 20,582 real strategic plans from the orgs whose strategy answers to a public — councils, regulators, citizens, boards. 81% of owners ghost their KPIs. Only 39% of goals hit on-track. We measured it. We built around it.
Every number sourced. Cascade claims from their own /vs/ page. ClearPoint claims from our published research.
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We do. We analyzed 20,582 real strategic plans across government, healthcare, education, utilities. Here's what we found. No competing platform can claim these numbers. None has the dataset.
Strategy software should know why plans fail. Ours does. We measured the patterns. We built around them. The result: a platform that flags the phantom owner before the board does.
Dashboards, charts, summaries — bundled into one PDF. Branded. Watermarked. Password-protected. Updated automatically. Ready when leadership asks. Not three days after.
See a sample briefing book →Executive summary on every report. Wins highlighted. Red flags surfaced. Next move suggested. Trained on 20,582 real plans, so the patterns are real. Not generic.
Both products earn their seat. Here's where each is strongest. Based on what each company says about itself.
"#1 Strategy-Led Performance Platform. One system. Better decisions. Faster results."
Built for organizations whose strategy is accountable to a public — government councils, healthcare boards, regulators, citizen bases.
Every row sourced. Cells marked "Per their site" are Cascade's own words. We don't contest them. We surface them. You decide the fit.
Straight answers. Sources cited. No hedge.
Yes. Cascade is a credible broad-enterprise platform for the for-profit mid-market. If your strategy doesn't answer to a public board, a regulator, or a citizen base — and you want one tool for plans, portfolios, OKRs, projects, KPIs, risks — Cascade fits. Cascade's own /vs/ page positions ClearPoint as best for "local government organizations." That matches our specialization. Honestly told.
ClearPoint analyzed 20,582 real strategic plans across government, healthcare, education, utilities. Two published studies: KPI Paradox — only 33% of measures are green, 22% never start. Gap Analysis — 81% phantom owners, 39% goal completion. To our knowledge, no competing platform has published comparable research at this scale. Cascade included.
No. Cascade does not advertise public-facing citizen dashboards on their product page, /vs/ page, or feature breakdowns at the time of our review. ClearPoint customers — Fort Collins, Coral Springs, Buncombe County — publish live strategic dashboards to the public today. Links in the section above.
Cascade markets Tapestry Connect, AI Reports, AI Briefings, AI Strategy Intelligence. ClearPoint offers an AI chatbot for strategy insights. The deeper difference: ClearPoint AI is informed by the 20,582-plan dataset. It flags phantom-owner patterns because we measured the 81% non-update rate. Cascade invests in surface area. We invest in depth.
Neither does. Both require a sales conversation. Ask both vendors for the same three things in writing: per-user pricing at each tier, what's included (especially dedicated CSM and migration support), and timeline commitments. Then compare. Honestly.
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