Switching tools

Runway vs Ninety: bring your EOS® meetings across.

If your leadership team already runs the Level 10 Meeting® in Ninety, the hard part of switching isn't the meeting; it's the data. Runway has a built-in Ninety import, so your rocks, measurables, to-dos, and issues move over in a few minutes and next week's flight takes off on schedule.

No credit card · One-time import · Nothing to uninstall

We'll tell you what Runway does. We won't tell you what someone else's product does.

Ninety is a well-known tool for teams running on EOS®, and plenty of good crews are happy there. We're not going to publish a feature-by-feature scorecard of a product we don't control. Those comparisons go stale the week they're written, and they're always graded by the person who wrote them.

What we can tell you precisely is what Runway is, what it costs, and exactly what happens to your data if you move. Runway is aviation-themed meeting software built around one thing: the weekly Level 10 Meeting®, run as a timed flight from Segue to Landing the Plane, with the scorecard, rocks, to-dos, and issues your crew needs along the way.

If that's the meeting you want to run, the import below means trying it costs you an afternoon, not a quarter.

What you're switching to

One meeting, seven sections, gate to gate.

If you're shopping for a Ninety.io alternative, this is the whole product in one screen: a timed Level 10 Meeting® flight your crew moves through together, with the numbers, rocks, commitments, and issues surfacing where the agenda calls for them.

  1. 01

    Segue

    Check in as people before you check in on numbers.

  2. 02

    Control Tower

    Scorecard and KPIs with trends at a glance.

  3. 03

    Flight Path

    Rocks and milestones, on-track or off.

  4. 04

    Flight Announcements

    Headlines from around the organization.

  5. 05

    To-Dos

    Last week's commitments, done or not done.

  6. 06

    Baggage Claim

    Identify, discuss, and solve your issues.

  7. 07

    Land the Plane

    Recap, cascade messages, rate the meeting.

  8. Why we built it →

What comes across

Your work moves. Your momentum stays.

Rocks and milestones

Every rock comes across with its milestones attached as checkpoints, so a rock arrives already broken down instead of as a bare title.

Scorecard measurables

Each measurable's definition (title, unit, goal, owner, and interval) lands in your Control Tower ready to take numbers.

Open to-dos

Outstanding seven-day commitments arrive on the To-Dos list with their owners.

Open issues

Your live issues list moves into Baggage Claim so nothing gets dropped between the two tools.

The one thing that doesn't: scorecard history

Ninety's public API has no endpoint for reading past scorecard values, so the weekly numbers behind your measurables can't come through the import. Export them from Ninety as a CSV and bring them in through Runway's CSV import instead. It exists for exactly this, and your trend lines pick up where they left off.

The migration

Four steps, one Ninety team at a time.

  1. 01

    Paste a token

    Create a Personal Access Token in Ninety and paste it into the import dialog.

  2. 02

    Pick the team

    Choose which Ninety team you're migrating. It lands in the Runway crew you run the import from.

  3. 03

    Choose what to bring

    Preview the rocks, measurables, to-dos, and issues found, and tick what you actually want.

  4. 04

    Import

    Everything saves into your crew through the same paths the app uses, so your permissions apply as usual.

There's nothing to schedule and no one you have to get on a call with. The only work is creating the token and ticking the boxes, so a single team is a few minutes' job; if you're moving several crews, you run it once per team.

Your Ninety Personal Access Token lives in the import dialog's memory only: it's sent with each request and never stored or logged. The import also skips anything whose title already exists in the crew, so running it twice won't leave you with two of everything.

What it costs

Free for three seats. No trial clock.

Free is free forever, not free for fourteen days, so you can move a team across and run real meetings in it before anyone signs anything.

Free

$0free forever

Up to 3 users on one crew, with the full weekly meeting.

First Class

$15per user / month

Everything: unlimited users and crews, full scorecards, cross-crew views, integrations, priority support.

That's the whole price list; the beta program explains how organizations get in. For what Ninety costs today, check their pricing page directly: we'd rather point you at the source than quote a number that goes stale.

When not to switch

You should probably stay where you are if…

We said we won't tell you what someone else's product does. Here's the other half of that deal: the cases where Runway is the wrong answer, so you can find out now instead of three weeks into a migration.

You run people management in the same tool

Runway has no one-on-ones, no review cycles, and no feedback tracking. It's meeting software, not an HR system, and we'd rather say so than let you find out in month two.

You want the whole EOS Toolbox™ in one place

There's no Accountability Chart® and no V/TO® builder in Runway. We cover the weekly Level 10 Meeting® and the rocks, numbers, to-dos, and issues that feed it. That's the scope, on purpose.

Your crew lives inside Slack or Teams

Runway is a web app. There's no native Teams or Slack app pushing your to-dos into the chat window your team already has open all day.

IT needs SSO or an API on day one

Runway has no SSO, no SCIM, and no public API or webhooks yet, at any price. If those are hard requirements this quarter, we're not there yet.

If none of those are dealbreakers, the thing you're trading away is breadth and the thing you're getting back is a weekly meeting that starts on time and ends on time.

Common questions

Switching from Ninety, answered.

Can I import my data from Ninety into Runway?
Yes. Runway has a built-in one-time migration that talks to Ninety's public API and brings across your rocks (with their milestones as checkpoints), your scorecard measurable definitions, your open to-dos, and your open issues, one Ninety team at a time.
Does Runway store my Ninety credentials?
No. You paste a Ninety Personal Access Token into the import dialog, and it lives in that dialog's memory only: it is passed with each request and never stored or logged. Close the dialog and it's gone. Runway never asks for your Ninety password.
What about my scorecard history?
Measurable definitions come across through the import, but the weekly numbers behind them don't: Ninety's public API has no endpoint for reading score history. Export your scorecard history from Ninety as a CSV and bring it in through Runway's CSV import, which is built for exactly this.
Do I have to move everything at once?
No. You pick what to bring at the preview step, and the import skips anything whose title already exists in the crew, so you can run it more than once, or migrate one team at a time, without ending up with duplicates.
What does Runway cost compared to Ninety?
Runway has two prices. Free is free forever for up to 3 users on one crew, and First Class is $15 per user per month for everything else, with no middle tiers to work out. For what Ninety costs today, check their pricing page directly. We'd rather point you at the source than quote a number that goes stale.
Is there a free alternative to Ninety.io?
Runway's free tier is free forever, not a trial: up to 3 users on one crew, with the whole weekly meeting from Segue through Landing the Plane, plus rocks, manual scorecards, to-dos, issues, and Flight Logs. No credit card, and no clock running out on you. If your leadership team is three people, that may be all you ever need.
How do I export my data out of Ninety?
You don't have to export anything by hand for the parts Runway imports: paste a Ninety Personal Access Token into Runway's import dialog and it reads your rocks, measurables, to-dos, and issues straight from Ninety's public API, one team at a time. The exception is scorecard history, which the API won't serve. Export that from Ninety as a CSV and bring it in through Runway's CSV import.

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