# Create a modeling objective

The Modeling Objectives application is an intuitive workspace for teams to manage models as they progress through the modeling lifecycle. Creating a modeling objective helps simplify a modeling project by consolidating models, metadata, and data sources alongside the model review, release, and deployment of those models.

Create a modeling objective by selecting the **Modeling Objectives** application on the Foundry sidebar and clicking **New objective**.

![Create new modeling objective](../../../assets/a49976f69be37a3d7cb7bdea2e7daa146e1fa75c6554071f6e9f1bd806bd3d71.webp)

After the modeling objective has been created, you can select a location to save the objective. We recommend saving the modeling objective in a centralized location where all relevant contributors, stakeholders, and consumers will have access to the project.

![modeling objectives zero state](../../../assets/720f9e3a9ea5d3bceb5dc5a6c88a39be0f63f4a5d21705e593199977a12f03f3.webp)

## Configure modeling objective

Modeling objectives can be edited and configured in several ways. This section provides more information about configuration options available for modeling objectives.

### Edit description

After creating a modeling objective, you can add a description by clicking the **Edit description** button. The description field is [Markdown ↗](https://www.markdownguide.org/)-compatible; we recommend using this space as a README for the objective and its goals.

![modeling objectives edit description](../../../assets/56008470217562734e5e9ff0c19886d023976539517ccb7abb370e004b6eb971.webp)

### Edit objective metadata

There are several options available for editing objective metadata, including:

* [**Modeling objective checks**](../set-up-checks/index.md) are a way to ensure that models pass predefined quality checks before a model is operationalized.
* [**Model submission metadata**](../configure-objective-metadata/index.md) enable a modeling objective owner to ensure that all models submitted to that objective have required metadata.
* [**Model evaluation**](../../evaluate-models/model-evaluation-automatic/index.md) options allow modeling objectives to be configured to automatically generate and build inference and metrics pipelines for all model submissions. This enables a systematic testing and evaluation plan in software.