GanttPilot
Summary
Every project manager has handed a stakeholder a Gantt chart that looked correct on Friday and was wrong by Monday — because one delayed approval quietly broke five downstream tasks nobody caught. GanttPilot exists for that exact failure: schedule logic that hides until the deadline arrives.
GanttPilot takes a plain-text project description and generates a dependency-aware Gantt schedule backed by a critical-path engine, not a drawing layer. The change-preview workflow is the differentiator: when a deadline shifts, it shows exactly which tasks move before you approve the revision. That approval step means a planner stays in control rather than watching an AI silently rewrite the schedule. It handles construction sequencing, shutdown planning, and client-delivery timelines where ripple effects are expensive. The ceiling is real, though — complex multi-team resource contention or portfolio-level planning across a dozen concurrent projects will exhaust what a prompt-driven, single-schedule tool was built to do.
Bottom line: Pick GanttPilot when you need to turn a rough project brief into a defensible, dependency-checked schedule in one session — plan on something else when your planning problem is cross-project portfolio visibility or resource pooling across multiple concurrent schedules.
Pricing Plans
Subscription- Price
- $19 /mo
GanttPilot Pro
For solo planners and small teams
- 1,000 AI credits/month
- Unlimited projects
- AI revision previews
- Resource and dependency checks
- Project XML export
- Invite up to 2 teammates
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Pros
Sign in to edit- Prompt-to-schedule generation backed by a CPM engine rather than a layout tool, which means the first draft already encodes dependency order and critical-path logic instead of giving you a blank canvas to fill manually.
- Change-preview before approval, so a delayed approval or added task shows every affected date as a diff — planners catch ripple effects before they reach the client rather than after.
- Dependency and resource-load checking built into the review step, which means overloaded resources and deadline pressure surface as flags during planning rather than as missed milestones during execution.
- Excel and MS Project XML import, so teams working from existing spreadsheet schedules or legacy project files can move into AI-assisted revision without rebuilding the plan from scratch.
- Approval gate on every AI revision, which means the schedule reflects deliberate planner decisions — not silent AI rewrites that introduce errors a reviewer only catches in the next status meeting.
Cons
Sign in to edit- Single-schedule architecture means there is no cross-project view: a team managing resource allocation across three concurrent construction sites will get three disconnected plans with no visibility into where the same crew or equipment is double-booked across them. Teams at that scale move to a dedicated multi-project scheduling tool.
- No API and no self-hosted option means teams building internal project management platforms or operating under data-residency requirements cannot embed GanttPilot's scheduling logic into their own stack — that constraint alone eliminates it for enterprise procurement.
- Credit-based generation on the free tier creates a hard stop during iterative planning sessions: a planner working through multiple revision cycles on a complex shutdown schedule will exhaust free credits before the plan stabilizes, and continuing requires upgrading to a paid-only tier.
- Plain-language prompt input, while fast for initial drafts, gives the planner limited direct control over task granularity and duration assumptions in the first generation — if the AI's interpretation of 'a 10-week product launch' differs from the planner's mental model, correcting it requires additional revision cycles rather than direct parameter input.
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About
- API Available
- No
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- 2026-07-23T03:00:06.692Z
Best For
Who it's for
- Solo planners
- Small teams
- Project managers needing AI schedule generation
What it does well
- Construction scheduling
- Industrial installation planning
- Shutdown planning
- Project handover
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is GanttPilot free?
- GanttPilot has a permanent free tier alongside paid upgrades (paid plans from $19 /mo). You can keep using a baseline version indefinitely without paying.
- Is GanttPilot open source?
- No — GanttPilot is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
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Scheduling tools have long separated the drawing from the logic: you arrange bars on a canvas, the tool never tells you when the arrangement is wrong. GanttPilot combines prompt-based schedule generation with a CPM engine that actively checks dependencies, deadline pressure, and resource load. The core workflow runs in four steps — generate a first-draft schedule from a prompt, template, or imported file; run a dependency and deadline check; describe what changed in plain language; review the impact preview; then approve or reject the revision. Nothing updates without explicit approval.
The change-preview feature is where GanttPilot separates from simpler Gantt generators. When a client approval shifts by five days, the tool surfaces every downstream task affected, shows the before and after dates, and flags whether the final milestone is still protected — before a single date changes in the schedule. That preview-then-approve loop is what the vendor positions as the core contract with the planner: the AI suggests, you decide.
The tool fits solo planners and small teams running discrete projects with defined start and end dates — product launches, construction and installation sequences, shutdown recovery, and client handovers. It is not a portfolio management layer. A team running eight concurrent projects with shared resources across all of them will hit the single-schedule model quickly. There is no API and no self-hosted option described on the vendor page, which rules it out for teams that need to embed scheduling logic inside a proprietary platform or keep project data on-premises.
Import paths include Excel and MS Project XML, which covers the most common handoff formats in construction and industrial planning. The vendor page describes a credit-based generation model, with a paid-only tier removing those constraints for teams that need to iterate frequently through revisions.