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AI · August 23, 2026

shadow-planner

AI-assisted gantt project planning that runs on your machine

shadow-planner launched on August 23, 2026 with 60 votes, #591 of 23,280 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

What it does

Desktop project planner for Windows, macOS and Linux. Gantt with dependencies, resource utilisation, what-if scenarios, and an AI assistant that knows your plan. Runs on a local Ollama model by default. No account, no cloud, no subscription — €4.99 once.

The project planner you can talk to. Drop in a brief and shadow-planner builds the full plan — then steer it by chat: re-schedule, re-baseline, query, rebalance. Runs on a local model via Ollama, or connect Anthropic Claude or OpenAI.

Drop in a brief — shadow-planner builds the full project structure. Then steer it by conversation: re-schedule, re-baseline, query workload, rebalance, all in plain language. Run it on a local model, or bring your own Claude or OpenAI key. Paste a brief. Get a full draft — epics, tasks, owners, a timeline. Review, edit, then materialize. Nothing is committed to your plan until you say so. Ask, query, change. Push a launch by two weeks. Find who's overbooked. Re-baseline an epic. The agent reads your plan live and asks for approval before changing anything. Run the assistant on a local model via Ollama — fully offline — or connect Anthropic Claude or OpenAI in…from shadow-planner.app

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