Where Kumu Planning Systems is headed

Tell KPS each metric’s source and how often it is measured, so a five-year indicator stops getting nagged every month and a quarterly one is asked for right on schedule. Reminders, the chase list, and the report draft all follow that rhythm instead of one calendar for everything.

Connect a KPI to a public data source (Census, county open data, permit records) or your own spreadsheet, and let the value refresh itself, with every change stamped with where it came from.

Live permit records flow in against the goals they affect, so you can watch development happen on the ground versus what the plan called for. Honolulu is connected today; next we are auto-attributing each permit to the plan areas it falls inside.

Hand each goal to the agencies and people who own it, even when more than one shares it, in a couple of clicks. A clean chase list shows who is on the hook for what, and when something goes stale you can send the owner their items and a request for an update without leaving the plan.

Ask a plain question and get a grounded answer. Which housing goals are behind? What did we commit to on shorelines across every plan we have adopted? KPS answers from your own plan data, with the source goal one click away.

Drop a search box on your agency’s own website that answers questions straight from your adopted plan, "what is the sustainable yield for this aquifer," with the exact page and section cited, so residents get a sourced answer without calling your office.

Every plan gets its own compliance calendar, statutory review dates, annual report due dates, hazard mitigation five-year expirations, and KPS flags it weeks out, not the week of.

Split your annual report into sections, hand each one to the team that owns it, and KPS assembles everyone’s piece into the single filing that goes out under your name.

If your office monitors other organizations and not just your own plans, give each one its own scorecard and roll every scorecard into the single report you owe your funder or the state.

When a plan gets formally amended, KPS keeps a dated record of exactly what changed in the goals and targets, so you can show an auditor the plan you are reporting against is the one that was actually adopted.

Clear a backlog of status updates in one sitting with a spreadsheet-style grid instead of opening one goal at a time.

Attach the council or board meeting minutes where a goal was discussed, funded, or changed directly to that goal, a record that is not just what staff logged but the public meeting where it was decided.

When you set up a goal, see how jurisdictions with similar goals commonly measure progress, drawn from adopted public plans. A grounded starting point built on what your peers actually track, instead of a blank box.

Tie a goal or metric to the budget line, grant, or position behind it in your agency’s finance and HR systems, so progress reflects real spending and staffing automatically, with no one re-keying numbers.

Generate a link that opens straight to the handful of actions a partner agency owns, no account to set up. They fill in status on just their piece, and it flows straight into your plan.

See every plan your agency owns in one place instead of opening each one alone. One view flags where plans conflict or compete, tracks the KPIs several plans share, and rolls activity up by department, with a public link you can share.

Score a proposed project against every plan that governs its site at once, and see exactly how it would move your plan’s own tracked numbers, not an abstract score.

When the review comes due, KPS drafts the report the law asks of you from the record you kept all year, in the section order that law spells out. Six filings are live today, from the Act 100 report a Hawaiʻi state department owes the Legislature to the quarterly progress report a hazard mitigation grant owes FEMA. Data sections show only what was tracked, and the narrative stays yours to write, never invented.

Scroll through a place’s planning history on one timeline. Pick the State, an island, or your own sub-region, and watch how its plans have stacked, expired, and been carried out over the decades. KPS even learns the rhythm, often a five-year cycle, and flags when your next update is coming due before the deadline catches you.

See where a jurisdiction’s plans reinforce each other, and where they pull in opposite directions or compete for the same land, budget, or staff. KPS flags the tension, and you make the call.

Turn your reporting obligation into a link. Share a clean, current view of an adopted plan’s progress with residents and council, with nothing to export or assemble by hand.

Assign each goal to the person responsible, and give everyone a personal "My goals" view of what is theirs, due, or slipping, so accountability rolls up between formal reviews.

Log what happened against any goal and break it into near-term milestones you check off. The plan stays a living record that fills in week to week, instead of a once-a-year scramble.

Your plan’s full goal hierarchy as a living tree, color-coded by health, so the structure reads at a glance instead of as a spreadsheet.

Merge duplicates, re-home misplaced goals, fix tier labels, and scope a plan down to what you actually track. You correct the document reader in seconds, with no re-import.

Record metric values over time with a full provenance trail, and update them straight from an uploaded progress report.

Turn current progress into a shareable report, and export the whole plan to PDF or CSV.