Empiraa GPS vs ClearPoint Strategy

ClearPoint runs the scorecard. Empiraa GPS runs the strategy, your way.

ClearPoint Strategy has been building Balanced Scorecard software since 2008, with a co-founder who spent fifteen years working alongside the framework’s creators, and it has genuine depth in local government, healthcare and higher education. Empiraa GPS is framework agnostic, includes an AI strategist and has no minimum user count. Neither company publishes pricing, so this page compares fit.

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Quick verdict

Choose ClearPoint Strategy

A strong fit if the Balanced Scorecard is your method and you report upward or publicly, particularly for a council, health service or university where accreditation and resident-facing reporting matter.

Choose Empiraa GPS

A strong fit if the plan crosses several teams or sites, different parts of it work differently, and you want an AI strategist and unlimited seats without a ten-user floor.

One is built around a framework. The other is built around whichever you use.

ClearPoint is a scorecard platform in the strict sense: objectives cascade into measures, measures into initiatives, and the reporting is built for organisations that have to publish progress upward or outward. Its Balanced Scorecard heritage is real rather than positioning, and its public sector depth runs to accreditation reporting and resident-facing dashboards. Empiraa GPS starts from the opposite assumption, that different parts of an organisation genuinely work differently, and supports KPIs, OKRs, Rocks and custom models in one plan with ANI working across all of it.

ClearPoint Strategy

Balanced Scorecard software with public sector depth

Built for organisations that report their scorecard upward or outward.

Scorecards, measures, initiatives and briefing books
Dedicated local government, healthcare and education practice
Accreditation reporting for HLC, SACSCOC, MSCHE and WSCUC
Public resident-facing dashboards and embeddable widgets
Quote-only, with a stated minimum of ten users

Strategy execution with AI built in

Built for established organisations whose plan crosses several teams or sites.

KPIs, OKRs, Rocks or a custom framework in one plan
Connected goals, actions, owners and meetings
ANI, a built-in AI strategist, on every plan
Board-ready reporting from live strategy data
Unlimited seats, no minimum user count

Key buying decisions

Factor	ClearPoint Strategy	Empiraa GPS
Method	BALANCED SCORECARDThe framework is the product	FRAMEWORK AGNOSTICKPIs, OKRs, Rocks and custom models
Sector focus	PUBLIC SECTORGovernment, healthcare and higher education	ANY SECTOREstablished mid-market and enterprise
Minimum users	TENA stated starting minimum of 10 users	NONEUnlimited seats, no floor
AI	THREE NAMESClearPoint AI, ClearPoint Next and AI Strategy Assistant	ONE, INCLUDEDANI, on every plan
Pricing	QUOTE ONLYSix dimensions, no figures published	QUOTE ONLYUnlimited seats. Shared in a 15-minute demo

Feature comparison

Both hold a plan, its owners and its measures, and report on them. The differences that decide it are whether you are committed to one framework, whether you sell into the public sector, and how many people need access.

Where ClearPoint is genuinely aheadRead this first · The scorecard heritage and the public sector depth are real

If the Balanced Scorecard is your method or you are a council, health service or university, these rows matter more than anything else on this page, and GPS does not match them.

Feature	ClearPoint Strategy	Empiraa GPS
Balanced Scorecard depth	The framework is the product, since 2008	Supported as one framework among several
Balanced Scorecard heritage	Co-founder worked fifteen years with Kaplan and Norton	No equivalent lineage
Local government practice	150+ named cities and counties	Not sector-specific
Accreditation reporting	HLC, SACSCOC, MSCHE, WSCUC named	Not offered
Public resident-facing dashboards	Embeddable, for publishing progress publicly	Not offered
Healthcare compliance reporting	Joint Commission and CMS readiness named	Not offered
Briefing books	Bundled branded PDF reporting	Board-ready reporting from live data
Longevity	Founded 2008	A growing Australian company

Planning and frameworksScorecard-shaped · Or whichever shape each team needs

Feature	ClearPoint Strategy	Empiraa GPS
Scorecards and cascading measures	Core to the product	Included
KPIs and measures	With flexible charting and automated evaluations	Included
Initiatives and projects	With dependencies and milestones	Actions and initiatives
OKRs	OKR framework support	Included
Quarterly priorities or Rocks	Not named on their site	Included
Custom strategy frameworks	Customisable categories and elements	First-class custom models
Mixing frameworks in one plan	Not found	Different teams, different models
Risk management	A named feature	AI-powered risk detection

Reporting and visibilityA genuine ClearPoint strength · GPS reports from live data

Feature	ClearPoint Strategy	Empiraa GPS
Custom dashboards	Included	Included
Briefing books as branded PDFs	A named strength	Board-ready reporting
Embeddable public widgets	For intranets and public sites	Not offered
Revision history and audit trail	Named on their features page	Update history
Approval workflows	Named on their features page	Not found in GPS
Automated executive summaries	Narrative drafting in their AI	Built-in AI
Reporting across mixed frameworks	Not found	Included

AIBoth have it · One of them has three names for it

ClearPoint has real AI capability, covering scorecard review, goal drafting, forecasting and narrative drafting. What is unclear is what it is called: "ClearPoint AI", "ClearPoint Next" and "AI Strategy Assistant" all appear on their live site with no page tying them together. That is a naming question rather than a capability one, but it matters when you are comparing quotes.

Feature	ClearPoint Strategy	Empiraa GPS
AI assistant across the plan	Real capability, three different names for it	ANI, one name
AI goal and OKR drafting	Included	Included
Narrative drafting for reports	Included	Built-in AI
Forecasting	Included	Included
Strategy realism and conflict analysis	A distinctive capability	Risk and stalled-priority detection
Included in the base price	Not published	On every plan

Pricing, seats and rolloutBoth quote · One has a ten-user floor

Feature	ClearPoint Strategy	Empiraa GPS
Published pricing	None. Six dimensions, no figures	Shared in a 15-minute demo
Minimum users	A stated starting minimum of 10	None
Priced by user bands	10 to 25, 25 to 100, 100 to 500, 500+	Unlimited seats, not banded
Priced by number of scorecards	1 to 5 up to 500+	Not a pricing dimension
Training and onboarding	Included on all plans, per their pricing page	Included
Integrations	SQL Server, Oracle, Jira, Power BI, Tableau, Zapier and more	Microsoft 365 and others
SOC 2	Stated as included from day one	Empiraa does not hold SOC 2

Neither of us publishes a price

ClearPoint prices on six customisable dimensions with no dollar figures attached, starting at a minimum of ten users. Empiraa GPS pricing is shared in a demo. The one structural difference worth knowing before either conversation is that GPS does not count seats at all.

Unlimited users

Pricing shared in a 15-minute demo
Unlimited seats, and no minimum user count
Implementation and training included
Built-in AI strategist included
KPIs, OKRs, Rocks and custom frameworks
A 30-day pilot with one leadership team

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ClearPoint Strategy

Quote only

Six customisable dimensions

No figures published for any configuration
Priced by user band, starting at a minimum of 10 users
Also priced by scorecard and dashboard count
Support level, integrations and SSO are separate dimensions
Training and onboarding included on all plans

ClearPoint’s pricing page was read on 19 September 2026 and showed six customisable dimensions with ranges but no dollar figures, and a starting minimum of ten users. No currency or billing term is stated on it. Empiraa GPS pricing depends on the organisation and the rollout and is shared in a demo.

AI comparison

Both bring AI to the plan. One of them has three names for it.

ClearPoint’s AI is capable and covers scorecard review, goal drafting, forecasting and narrative writing. On their live site it appears as "ClearPoint AI", as part of "ClearPoint Next" and as the "AI Strategy Assistant", with no page reconciling them. ANI is one thing with one name, included on every GPS plan.

ClearPoint Strategy

ClearPoint AI, or ClearPoint Next, or the AI Strategy Assistant

Scorecard and exception review
Goal and OKR drafting, measure and chart refinement
Strategy realism and conflict analysis
Forecasting and narrative drafting for reports
Three names across their live site, and inclusion not published

ANI, the built-in AI strategist

Helps build and adapt the strategy using any framework
Identifies stalled priorities and risks
Works across goals, KPIs, actions, meetings and progress
Recommends what leadership should focus on next
Included across GPS plans

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Which platform fits your organisation?

ClearPoint Strategy

Choose ClearPoint if the scorecard is the method.

If you run a Balanced Scorecard and have to report it upward to a board or outward to the public, ClearPoint is built for exactly that and has been since 2008. For a council, health service or university it adds accreditation reporting, resident-facing dashboards and a named customer base in your sector, none of which GPS has.

Choose Empiraa GPS if one framework does not fit the whole organisation.

You want KPIs in one part of the business, OKRs in another and quarterly priorities somewhere else, reported together. You want an AI strategist included rather than quoted, unlimited seats with no ten-user floor, and implementation included.

Moving from ClearPoint to Empiraa GPS

A scorecard is a good starting structure, and nothing about moving requires abandoning it.

Bring the scorecard across

Objectives, measures, initiatives and owners import as the structure GPS starts from. If the Balanced Scorecard is working for part of the organisation, it stays.

Let the other teams use their own shape

This is usually the reason for moving. Teams that were forcing their work into scorecard perspectives can run KPIs, OKRs or quarterly priorities instead, in the same plan.

Rebuild the reporting

Dashboards and the board pack from live strategy data. Note that GPS has no equivalent of embeddable public widgets, so if you publish progress to a public site, raise that early.

Run the rhythm

Check-ins, meetings and reporting on live data, with ANI flagging stalled priorities and risks before the quarterly review.

Implementation and training are included, and there is no minimum user count to reach before the numbers work.

FAQs

What is the main difference between ClearPoint and Empiraa GPS?

ClearPoint is built around the Balanced Scorecard and sells heavily into government, healthcare and higher education. Empiraa GPS is framework agnostic, so KPIs, OKRs, Rocks and custom models can run side by side in one plan. If the scorecard is your method and you report it upward or publicly, ClearPoint is purpose-built for that. If different parts of your organisation genuinely work differently, that is what GPS is for.

How much does ClearPoint Strategy cost?

ClearPoint does not publish pricing. On 19 September 2026 its pricing page stated "no generic pricing, because every team runs strategy differently" and listed six customisable dimensions: users, support level, integrations, single sign-on, scorecard and dashboard count, and training. Ranges are shown but no dollar figures, and the user bands start at a minimum of ten users. No currency or billing term is stated. You will need a quote to compare.

Does ClearPoint have a minimum number of users?

Yes. Its pricing page shows user bands of 10 to 25, 25 to 100, 100 to 500 and 500 or more, with a starting minimum of ten users. That matters if your leadership team is smaller than ten, because you would be buying capacity you do not need. Empiraa GPS has no minimum and no seat count at all: every plan includes unlimited users.

Is ClearPoint only for the Balanced Scorecard?

Not only, and it would be unfair to say so. Its features page lists OKR framework support and customisable categories and elements alongside the scorecard model. But the Balanced Scorecard is unmistakably its centre of gravity: it has a dedicated landing page for it, and its co-founder states he spent fifteen years working alongside Kaplan and Norton, who created the framework. That heritage is a genuine advantage if the scorecard is your method.

Which is better for local government?

ClearPoint, on current evidence, and this page is not going to pretend otherwise. It has a dedicated local government practice naming more than 150 cities and counties, public resident-facing dashboards for publishing progress, and reporting built around the cycles councils actually run. GPS has no sector specialisation and no equivalent of the public dashboards. If you are a council, that is the stronger fit.

What is ClearPoint AI, and is it the same as ClearPoint Next?

Unclear from their own site, which is worth asking about rather than assuming. On 19 September 2026, "ClearPoint AI" was described as an AI strategy assistant integrated into the platform, "ClearPoint Next" was described as a platform version update bundling a built-in AI assistant, and the features page separately used "AI Strategy Assistant" for what appears to be the same capability. No page ties the three together. The capability itself is real and covers scorecard review, goal drafting, forecasting and narrative writing.

Is ClearPoint Strategy the same as ClearPoint Neuro?

No, and they turn up together in search results often enough to be worth separating. ClearPoint Strategy at clearpointstrategy.com is the strategy execution software this page compares. ClearPoint Neuro is an unrelated listed medical device company. Nothing on this page refers to the latter.

Not sure this comparison is fair? Ask ANI. It will tell you when the other one is the better fit.

ClearPoint’s pricing structure, sector positioning, feature set, AI naming and integrations were read from clearpointstrategy.com, its pricing, features, sector and ClearPoint AI pages and its blog on 19 September 2026. Rows marked “not found” or “not published” mean no such thing was found on their site that day, not that ClearPoint states it does not exist. Empiraa does not hold SOC 2 certification and nothing here should be read as claiming otherwise; the certification named is ClearPoint’s. ClearPoint Strategy is a trademark of its owner and is not connected to ClearPoint Neuro, an unrelated medical device company. Empiraa is not affiliated with ClearPoint Strategy.

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