Everything you need to master GANTT360° — from first chart to AI-powered SteerCo decks.
Create your account and first chart in 2 minutes
GANTT360° is designed to get you from zero to a presentation-ready GANTT chart in under 2 minutes. No setup wizards, no config files — sign up, pick a template, and start editing.
Every new account also includes an "Example — Feature Showcase" chart: a fully built sample using stage gates, baselines, dependencies, drillable phases and more. Click around in it, drag things, or delete it — it’s yours.
After signing in, you'll see the template picker. Each template shows a mini preview of the chart layout so you can see what you're getting before choosing. Pick one of the 15 starter templates or click "Start Blank" for an empty canvas.
| Template | Best for |
|---|---|
| SAP/ERP Cutover | S/4HANA migrations, wave timelines |
| Program / Portfolio Overview | One line per project — summary bars, program gates, collapse for the exec view |
| Product Launch | Research → Dev → QA → Beta → GA |
| Office Migration | Planning → IT infra → physical move |
| Software Delivery | Sprint-based delivery with release milestone |
| Event Planning | Conference / event end-to-end |
| Website Redesign | Discovery → Design → Build → Content → Go-Live |
| M&A Integration | Due diligence → Day 1 → Synergy capture |
| Marketing Campaign | Strategy → Creative production → Channel execution |
| Construction / Build-Out | Permits → Build → MEP → Fit-out → Handover |
| AI Company Launch | Incorporation → Hiring → GPU setup → Training → Seed → Launch |
| Fundraising / Series A | Model → Deck → Outreach → DD → Term Sheet → Close |
| Cloud Migration | Assessment → Landing Zone → Pilot → Wave → Decommission |
| GDPR / Compliance | Data mapping → Gap analysis → Controls → Training → Audit |
| Go-to-Market Plan | Research → Positioning → Channels → Launch → Scale |
"Pick a template, replace the sample data with your own, and you're presenting to your SteerCo in minutes — not hours."
— The GANTT360° philosophy
All your projects at a glance — one click into any chart
Home (top of the sidebar) shows every chart you own as a status card: big schedule-aware progress number, tasks done, countdown to the next key date, and an at-risk/on-track chip. Cards are grouped by project; clicking a card opens the chart.
The progress color is schedule-relative: a healthy project that just started shows green at 10% — red only means you are behind where the calendar says you should be.
Organize your work in projects, folders, and charts
Everything in GANTT360° lives inside a project. A project is a container — like a client engagement, a program, or a department. Inside a project you create charts (the actual GANTT diagrams) and organize them in folders.
Folders sort alphabetically — with one exception: name a folder "Archive" (or "Archiv") and it always sits at the bottom of its project, below the live folders.
Click the × button next to the folder name. Charts inside are NOT deleted — they move back to the project root. Only the folder container is removed.
Need more room for the chart? The small toggle button on the sidebar's edge switches it to a slim icon rail — Home and New Chart stay one click away, and clicking again brings the full pane back. In rail mode a small cockpit tile shows the open chart's progress ring, the countdown to its next milestone and its health dot — click it for today's PM wisdom.
Turn any chart into your own reusable starting point
Built a chart structure you want to reuse — your firm's rollout playbook, a client-ready phase model? Save it as a personal template and every future project starts from it.
When you create a chart from a template, all dates are re-anchored to the coming Monday and progress resets to 0% — structure, groups, dependencies and durations stay exactly as designed.
Add tasks, drag bars, edit labels, and zoom
Three ways to add a task:
Click and drag any bar horizontally. The dates shift. If the task has dependencies, downstream tasks cascade automatically.
Hover over the left or right edge of a bar — the cursor changes to a resize arrow. Drag to change the start or end date.
Double-click a bar (or use the context menu) to open the date picker. It has two views: Month for day-precise clicking, and Year — a rolling 12-month overview that shows your whole period as one band, with a draggable ball at each end (each carrying its exact date). Drag the balls across the days to adjust start and end; weekends are shaded, and dragging past the top or bottom edge rolls the window across year boundaries. Bars spanning more than one month open in the Year view automatically.
Every column boundary in the left panel is draggable — Activity, Owner, Progress, and Status, including the edge between Status and the timeline. Hover a boundary until the cursor becomes ↔, then drag; the line tints green while you drag. Widths are saved with the chart.
Double-click any text in the left panel — activity name, owner, or status — to edit it inline. Press Enter to save, Escape to cancel.
Zoom applies only when the cursor is over the timeline area. When the cursor is over the left pane (Activity, Owner, Status, Progress), the scroll wheel scrolls the page normally — so you can browse long task lists without accidentally zooming.
| Action | How |
|---|---|
| Zoom in | Cursor over timeline, scroll wheel up (or pinch-out on touch) |
| Zoom out | Cursor over timeline, scroll wheel down (or pinch-in on touch) |
| Scroll task list vertically | Cursor over the left pane, scroll wheel |
| Pan left/right | Drag the scale header row, or use the horizontal scrollbar when zoomed |
| Extend the timeline | Grab the LEFT or RIGHT edge of the scale header (cursor becomes ↔) and drag — start/end date moves with you. A live +Nd pill shows the delta. |
| Reset zoom | Click the "Reset" button in the zoom indicator |
| Add / remove columns | Right-click the column header row and toggle Owner / Progress / Status / Start / End / Days — or add up to 3 custom free-text columns (e.g. Budget, Workstream) |
| Add / remove scale levels | Right-click the timeline scale header and add or remove Year / Quarter / Month / Week / Day rows |
| Context menu (mobile) | Long-press on a task bar for 0.5 seconds |
Copy tab-separated data from Excel or Google Sheets (columns: Task Name, Start Date, End Date, Responsible). Paste into the chart with Ctrl+V — tasks appear instantly with dates and owners assigned to the first group.
Right-click any task bar and choose "Show Dates" to display start date, end date, both, or duration directly on the bar. Options: Start, End, Both, Duration, None.
Right-click a task and choose "Indent (make sub-task)" to nest it under the task above — the parent becomes drillable, so the ▶/▼ toggle expands or collapses its children, and sub-tasks are indented in the left column. "Outdent to top-level" moves a child back out.
If a dependency arrow connected the task to the phase it is moving into, indenting asks you to confirm before removing it: a phase bar already spans its sub-tasks, so a link between the two would point at itself.
Right-click a bar → "Highlight Row" to tint a whole row (Yellow / Red / Green / Blue) — handy for flagging the row everyone should look at. Right-click → "RAG Status" (None / Green / Amber / Red) puts a health dot on the row; turn the dots on globally with Properties → "RAG status dots".
The "💬 Feedback" button in the editor toolbar opens a box to send us a note (bug, idea, or question) — tick "reply to me" if you'd like an answer. It reaches the founder directly.
Bring your existing plan in — nothing gets retyped, nothing gets uploaded
The Import wizard turns an existing plan into a chart in seconds. It runs 100% in your browser — your file is parsed locally and never uploaded to a server. Available on every plan, including Free.
Imported rows merge into the current chart: existing groups are reused, and the timeline extends automatically if your plan reaches further than the chart.
| Source | What comes across |
|---|---|
| Excel / CSV / TSV | Tasks, dates, owners, groups |
| Paste from Jira | Issue summaries, dates, assignees (column headers auto-detected) |
| MS Project XML | Tasks, finish-to-start dependencies, summary rows as groups, resources |
Link tasks with drag-and-drop arrow connections
Dependencies are the arrows between tasks. When you move task A, task B shifts automatically. This is the "auto-reflow" engine — the core of GANTT360°.
| Pattern | Behavior |
|---|---|
| A → B (simple) | Moving A's end shifts B's start by the same delta |
| A → B → C (chain) | Moving A cascades through B to C |
| A → B, A → C (fan-out) | Moving A shifts both B and C |
| A → C, B → C (fan-in) | C.start = max(A.end, B.end) — latest wins |
One chart for executives AND delivery teams
"The feature no other Gantt tool offers. One chart serves both the Steering Committee (collapsed overview) and the Delivery Team (expanded detail)."
Groups (phases) and drillable tasks show a ▶ or ▼ arrow in the left panel:
| State | What you see | When to use |
|---|---|---|
| ▶ Collapsed | Summary bar spanning min→max dates of children, weighted progress | Executive overview |
| ▼ Expanded | All child tasks visible with their own bars | Delivery team detail |
When collapsed, the summary bar automatically shows:
Group rows by owner instead of phase
The toolbar has a [Phase | Owner] toggle. Switch to Owner and the chart re-groups rows by the Responsible field — one lane per person. Same data, different angle: instead of 'what phase is this in?' you see 'who is doing what, when?'
In Owner mode a sort dropdown appears next to the toggle:
| Sort | What it does |
|---|---|
| Name (A–Z) | Alphabetical, Unassigned last |
| Workload | Most tasks first — find your busiest person |
| Earliest start | Whoever starts soonest goes on top |
Toggle Properties → 'Show resource heatmap' with the chart in Owner mode. A thin colored strip appears along the bottom edge of each owner lane showing that person's weekly concurrent-task count:
| Color | Concurrent tasks that week |
|---|---|
| transparent | 0 — free |
| green | 1 — on a single thing |
| amber | 2 — double-booked |
| red | 3+ — overloaded |
Show plan drift as ghost bars under every task · Pro
Baselines freeze the original plan so you can see how reality diverged. When you set a baseline, each task remembers its planned dates — and the chart renders a gray dashed ghost bar above every live bar showing where the plan originally had it.
| What you see | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Gray dashed bar above the live bar | The original plan |
| Red slip line between ghost-end and live-end | How many days the task slipped |
| Ghosts align with live bars | On plan |
Highlight the chain that determines your end date · Pro
The critical path is the longest chain of dependent tasks in your project. If any task on it slips, the whole project slips. GANTT360° computes and highlights it in red so execs instantly see which slips matter.
Formal go/no-go decision points — G1, G2, G3 · the language of program reviews
Stage gates are formal decision points between phases — the G1/G2/G3 vocabulary of regulated industries and Cooper-style stage-gate methodology. Unlike a milestone, a gate carries an outcome and spans the whole chart as a vertical line.
| Outcome | Rendering |
|---|---|
| pending | Grey label — decision ahead |
| passed | Green label — approved |
| conditional | Amber label — approved with conditions |
| failed | Red label — not approved |
Customize how each task looks
| Style | Use case |
|---|---|
| Solid | Active, in-progress work |
| Dashed | Planned, tentative, or support phases |
| Process Arrow | Chevron/pentagon shape for process steps |
| Agile / Hybrid | Hatched fill for iterative / continuous work streams |
| Milestone Diamond | Collapse the bar to a diamond on its start date |
Right-click a bar → Color and pick from 7 theme swatches (Primary, Secondary, Accent 1–3, plus Red and Yellow). Colors follow your project theme, so nothing goes off-brand by accident.
Right-click a bar → Progress: 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100% — or "Custom %…" for anything in between. The progress column shows a mini bar + percentage.
The seals get their own column headed "Sign-off" at the right edge of the left-hand block, so they never sit on a Status or Days value. The column appears as soon as one task carries a sign-off. Note: sign-off seals are an on-screen and share-link marker — they are not drawn into the PowerPoint export.
Mark key dates with diamond, triangle, circle, or X shapes
Milestones appear as diamond shapes by default. They can be placed on their own row (standalone) or on an existing task row.
The chart_spec supports 4 shapes: diamond ◆, triangle ▲, circle ●, and X mark ✕. Right-click any milestone to switch shapes. All render in the SVG and export to .pptx.
Right-click any task bar → Style → 'Milestone Diamond'. The bar collapses into a shape on its start date, but the row (with its owner, status, dependencies) stays. Right-click the resulting shape → Shape → pick Diamond / Triangle / Circle / X Mark — same vocabulary as a standalone milestone.
Annotate time ranges below the chart — shaded or line style
"Like think-cell's phase ranges. Mark workshops, sprints, code freezes, or any period — with a shaded column spanning the full chart height and a colored label below."
Right-click any existing bracket or band → "Switch to Phase Band" or "Switch to Bracket". The dates and label are preserved — only the visual style changes.
Right-click any bracket or band → "Delete". Confirmation required.
| Style | Visual | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Phase Band | Shaded column + colored pill label | Workshops, sprints, holidays, freezes |
| Bracket | Line with end caps + center tick + label | Time span annotations, phase durations |
Mark non-working periods with shaded columns
Weekend shading is automatic (grey stripes every Saturday/Sunday). For custom non-working periods — holidays, company shutdowns, vacation — you can add custom shades.
Right-click the shaded area → "Delete shade". The shade is removed instantly.
Weekend columns are shaded automatically based on the Work Week setting in Properties. Set to 5-day (Mon–Fri) for grey weekend stripes, or 7-day to remove them.
In the Properties panel, open the "Public Holidays" section and pick a country — GANTT360° shades that country's national holidays across the chart automatically, so nobody asks why week 33 stalled. Combine it with custom shades for company-specific shutdowns.
Match your corporate colors in 13 slots
.pptx, .pdf, .png, clipboard, and drill-down decks
Click "Export ▾" in the toolbar. Options:
| Format | What you get |
|---|---|
| Download .pptx | Grouped PowerPoint shapes — editable in PPT (move bars, change text, recolor) |
| Download .pdf | A4 landscape PDF of the current view |
| Download .png | 2x retina PNG image |
| Copy as PNG | Copies the chart to your clipboard — paste into Slack, email, docs |
| Drill-Down Deck | Multi-slide .pptx: Slide 1 = all collapsed, then one slide per expanded group |
"The .pptx export produces real PowerPoint shapes — not a screenshot. Your SteerCo audience can edit the chart directly in PowerPoint after you send it."
— Key differentiator
PDF, PNG and Copy-as-PNG are available on every plan. PowerPoint (.pptx) is limited to 1 export per month on Free, then unlimited on Pro and Business. The editable Drill-Down Deck is a Business feature.
| Export | Free | Pro | Business |
|---|---|---|---|
| .pdf / .png / Copy PNG | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Editable .pptx | 1 / month | unlimited | unlimited |
| Drill-Down Deck | — | — | ✓ |
Focus mode + laser pointer for the SteerCo room
Two presenter tools turn the editor into a projector-ready view — for the moment the chart goes on screen in front of the committee.
Press F — or click the focus button in the toolbar — to strip away every bit of editor chrome so the chart itself fills the screen (it fullscreens the app, so the sidebar disappears too). Press F again or Escape to leave. It's deliberately not saved: you enter it for a moment, not for good.
Press L — or the laser button — for a PowerPoint-style glowing red dot that follows your cursor while the real cursor hides, so you can point at bars during the walkthrough. Clicking and drilling still work through it. Press L again or Escape to turn it off.
Claude analyzes your chart and delivers executive insights
AI Insights, What-If, the SteerCo Script Generator, the PM Advisor and Status Reports all live under the “✦ AI” dropdown in the toolbar, and are available on the Pro and Business plans.
| Section | Content |
|---|---|
| Health badge | Green / Amber / Red overall status |
| Executive Summary | 2-3 sentence project brief |
| Critical Path | Which tasks determine your end date |
| Risks | Severity-coded with actionable suggestions |
| Resource Load | Tasks & days per person, overload alerts |
| Schedule Insights | Gaps, overlaps, weekend conflicts |
| SteerCo Talking Points | Copy-to-clipboard bullet points |
| Weekly Focus | What the team should work on this week |
| Forecast | Velocity-based completion estimate |
AI analysis is opt-in — your data is only sent when you click the button. Results are cached — refresh the page and your analysis is still there. Anthropic does not use API inputs for model training.
Describe your project in plain English
The AI chat bar at the bottom of the editor lets you create and modify charts using natural language. No clicking, no dragging — just type what you want.
You can also modify an existing chart with natural language:
Simulate schedule impacts before committing
The What-If panel lets you ask "what happens if..." questions and see the cascading impact on your timeline before making any changes.
| Section | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Severity | Low / Medium / High / Critical impact level |
| End Date Change | How many days the project end date shifts |
| Affected Tasks | Which tasks changed and how |
| Cascading Effects | Downstream consequences of the scenario |
| Risks | New risks created, with suggested mitigations |
| Recommendation | What the PM should do about this scenario |
AI-written speaking notes for your presentation
The SteerCo Script panel generates a complete slide-by-slide speaking script matched to your drill-deck export. No more staring at slides wondering what to say.
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Copy All | Copies the full script as formatted text to your clipboard |
| PPTX + Notes | Downloads a drill-deck .pptx with speaker notes injected into each slide |
Your AI project management coach — paste emails, drop files, get action plans
The PM Advisor is a conversational AI that reads your chart and responds as a senior project manager. It goes beyond what the chart shows — suggesting meetings, cadences, escalation paths, and communication strategies.
| Input | What you get |
|---|---|
| Stakeholder email about a deadline | Action plan with owners + draft reply |
| "What should I focus on this week?" | Prioritized task list based on your chart |
| Screenshot of a Jira board | Gap analysis vs your Gantt timeline |
| SOW or scope document (PDF) | Missing tasks and risk flags |
| "How do I prepare for go-live?" | War room setup, daily cadence, rollback plan |
| Meeting minutes | Updated priorities and follow-up actions |
Click the paperclip icon or drag files onto the input. Supported: images (PNG, JPG — the AI reads screenshots), PDFs, text files, CSV, Markdown. Max 8000 characters per document.
The Advisor automatically extracts key facts from each conversation and saves them as Project Notes. On your next session — even days later — the AI remembers deadlines, decisions, risks, and action items.
| Category | Example |
|---|---|
| Deadline | Cutover must complete by April 24 |
| Decision | Decided to parallelize UAT and testing |
| Risk | M. Chen availability is a concern |
| Action | Schedule war room by Friday |
| Context | Stakeholder expects weekly status updates |
Notes appear in the Project Notes section at the top of the Advisor panel, each tagged with a category glyph. Click ✓ to mark a note as resolved — it's removed from the AI's memory.
AI-generated weekly status reports with KPIs and trends
The Status Report panel generates a structured weekly status report from your chart data. One click produces an executive-ready update with KPIs, progress, risks, and next actions.
| Section | Content |
|---|---|
| Overall Status | Green / Amber / Red badge |
| Executive Summary | 2-3 sentence overview |
| KPIs | Progress, milestone countdown, tasks completed, at-risk count — with trend arrows |
| Completed This Week | Tasks finished since last report |
| In Progress | Active tasks with owner, progress %, status |
| Next Week | Upcoming tasks and actions |
| Risks & Issues | Severity + description + mitigation |
| Decisions Needed | Items requiring executive input |
| Key Dates | Upcoming milestones and deadlines |
Copy — paste the full report as markdown into email or Slack. PDF — download a branded A4 document with status badge and formatted sections.
How your status evolved over time — computed from version history
Open AI Insights and the panel starts with a TREND section — no AI call needed. It replays your chart's version history and draws actual progress against where the calendar expected you to be, plus how often your key date moved ("+14d · moved 2×").
Because every save creates an immutable version, the trend works retroactively: a chart with months of history shows its full trajectory the first time you open the panel.
Every AI report you generate — Insights, SteerCo Script, Status Report — is archived automatically. Each panel has a History section listing past runs with date and chart version; click one to reload it exactly as generated, and re-export its PDF.
8 pre-built color schemes for your charts and exports
Click the Theme panel in the toolbar and choose from 8 pre-built color schemes. Each theme applies instantly to your chart and exports (.pptx, .pdf, .png).
| Theme | Style |
|---|---|
| Solventum Green | GANTT360 default — green tones |
| McKinsey Blue | Deep navy + blue accents |
| Deloitte Green | Deloitte brand greens |
| Corporate Navy | Classic boardroom blue |
| SAP Gold | SAP brand blue + gold |
| Boardroom Dark | Dark background, warm accents |
| Warm Earth | Brown/olive earth tones |
| Minimal Mono | Grayscale, ultra-clean |
Milestone checklists that enrich your PM Advisor
When your chart matches a known industry pattern (SAP cutover, M&A integration), the PM Advisor automatically loads the relevant playbook — structured milestone checklists with known risks and best practices.
| Playbook | Phases |
|---|---|
| SAP S/4HANA Cutover | Pre-Cutover → Rehearsal → Go-Live → Hypercare |
| M&A First 100 Days | Stabilize → Integrate → Optimize |
Playbooks are matched automatically based on your chart title and group names. The PM Advisor references the playbook's checklist items and known risks when answering your questions — it enriches the Advisor's context, it is not a separate panel.
Full access for your students during the course — no payment, no cards
When the class period ends, your account simply returns to the Free plan — your charts stay yours.
Trainers see a My classes view listing every enrolled student and their charts — each submitted chart is one share-link click away. Deliberately not an LMS: no grading, no assignments, just the work.
Class codes are seat-limited and time-limited, and are issued per institution. A pilot class is free; after that, licensing is per class or per campus — contact office@botforce.at.
Forgot your password? Here's how to reset it
Manage your account, switch plans, or cancel — all in one place
Open the account menu (your avatar at the bottom of the sidebar) → "Settings & plan", or go straight to /settings. Everything about your account and subscription lives here.
Your email, the date you joined, and how many charts you have (against your plan's limit) are shown at the top of the page.
| Plan | Price | Highlights |
|---|---|---|
| Free | €0 | Build & import charts, 1 PowerPoint export per month |
| Pro | €12/mo or €119/yr | Unlimited charts + editable .pptx, share links, all AI features |
| Business | €24/mo or €229/yr | Everything in Pro + password-protected links + the Drill-Down Deck |
Yearly billing is two months free. See the full comparison on the pricing page.
Report and reminder emails each carry a one-click unsubscribe link in the footer — that's the fastest way to manage them. Account emails (receipts, security) can't be switched off.
Every edit auto-saved, compare any two versions
GANTT360° saves a new version every 5 seconds of idle time after a change. Identical saves are deduplicated (no noise).
Properties panel → 'Show change deltas' renders the diff directly on the bars (not just in a compare view):
| Visual | Meaning |
|---|---|
| +3d / −2d pill on right edge of bar | End-date moved N days since last version |
| Purple dashed ghost bar below the live bar | Where the previous version had this task |
| Green NEW pill on left edge | Task was added since the last version |
Configure title, scale, columns, and display settings
Click the gear icon in the toolbar (to the right of the Export button). The right panel shows all chart-level settings.
| Setting | What it controls |
|---|---|
| Title / Subtitle | Text shown above the chart |
| Timeline Start / End | The date range of the chart |
| Bar Height | XS, Small, Medium, or Large bars |
| Row Style | None, Subtle, or Zebra row striping |
| Corner Radius | How rounded the bar corners are (0–8px) |
| Work Week | 5-day (Mon–Fri) or 7-day |
| Fiscal Year Start | Month for FY labels (e.g., April → FY2027) |
| Owner column | Show/hide + custom header text |
| Status column | Show/hide + custom header text |
| Progress on bars | Show/hide progress fill + progress column |
| Dependency arrows | Show/hide arrow connectors |
| Today line | Show/hide the vertical today marker |
| RAG status dots | Show/hide the per-row health dots |
| Resource heatmap | Owner-mode workload strip (see Swimlane View) |
| Change deltas | Draw since-last-version diffs on the bars (see Version History) |
| Font sizes | Label (8–16px) and scale (7–14px) |
The bottom toolbar has a "Columns" button to show or hide the Owner and Status columns without opening Properties — handy right before an export when you want a cleaner picture.
Turn on "Decisions / blockers panel" in Properties to render a Decisions Needed callout on the chart — the open questions you want the SteerCo to rule on. Add and edit items by hand, or click "✦ Draft with AI" and Claude scans the plan (critical-path and slip aware) and proposes 2–5 decision items you can keep or trim.
Switch between light and dark themes
Click your avatar at the bottom of the sidebar to open the account menu, then toggle Dark mode. The entire editor — chart, panels, toolbar, sidebar, and KPI bar — switches to a dark color scheme. Your preference is saved in your browser and applies across all charts.
Six live metrics above every chart in the editor
The KPI bar appears automatically above the chart in the editor. (On a shared link, viewers instead see the Exec status strip — see Sharing — which distills these into four stakeholder signals.)
| KPI | How it's calculated | Color logic |
|---|---|---|
| Progress | Duration-weighted average of all tasks | Green ≥75%, amber ≥40%, red <40% |
| Duration | Timeline end - start in weeks | — |
| Next Milestone | Days until nearest future milestone | Red when ≤7 days |
| Resources | Count of unique owner names | — |
| Tasks | Completed / total (top-level only) | — |
| At Risk | Tasks past start date with 0% progress | Red alert when >0 |
Quick reference for power users