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ganttchart.ai

Project plans from plain English.

Describe your project in a sentence or two. ganttchart.ai generates a timeline in seconds that you can edit and share with your team.

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AI · Project planning
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A first draft for the ten minutes before a meeting. The bet behind it

Why we built it

We wanted a timeline for the next meeting.

Making a Gantt chart by hand takes time: you have to list the tasks, set the dates, and work out the dependencies. That can be a lot of setup when you need a rough plan to discuss.

We kept running into this ourselves. We knew what we wanted to do over the next few weeks and needed a timeline we could share and adjust.

ganttchart.ai takes that description and drafts the chart. You check the assumptions and change the dates before sharing it.

What we made Features
  1. 01

    Describe the project

    Type the project the way you'd explain it to a colleague. The chart starts from that description.

  2. 02

    Tasks on a timeline

    The chart shows tasks with their durations and dependencies, so you can see what needs to happen first.

  3. 03

    Edit the draft

    Adjust the generated tasks and dates to fit the work. You can rename tasks, reorder them, or change the scope.

  4. 04

    Share a link

    Send someone the chart URL. They can open it without creating an account.

Design choices

A first draft for the ten minutes before a meeting.

Ready for the meeting

We designed it for someone who has a meeting in ten minutes and needs a timeline to discuss.

Keep it in the browser

The tool runs on the web, so you can make and open charts without installing software.

Make starting over easy

You can generate another chart in seconds. If the first plan doesn't work, change the description and try again.

Further reading from the journal

We wrote a longer essay about this design decision: The ten minutes before the meeting. If you're staring at a blank plan right now, start with our guide: How to turn a plain-English plan into a Gantt chart — or, if you're not sure a timeline is the right shape at all, with Gantt chart, kanban board, or to-do list? And when the planning words get fuzzy — critical path, slack, finish-to-start — there's the plain-English glossary. To see what the output looks like across five very different projects, browse the worked Gantt chart examples.

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