What people use shadow-planner for
Concrete ways to use shadow-planner — AI-drafted Gantt charts, resource utilisation planning, fully offline project planning, and running the AI assistant on a local LLM with Ollama.
shadow-planner does a small number of things deliberately well: it drafts a plan from a brief, shows it as a dependency-aware Gantt, tells you who is overloaded, and lets you try "what if" in an isolated scenario — all on your own machine. These pages walk through each of those jobs in practice.
Planning
- AI Gantt chart — paste a brief, get epics, tasks and dates drafted for review; then reschedule and rebalance by chat.
- Resource utilisation planning — weekly capacity versus allocation across every project, over-capacity weeks highlighted, cost rolled up from daily rates.
Privacy and infrastructure
- Offline project planner — no account, no sync, a local SQLite file; works on the train and at client sites.
- Project planning with a local LLM — run the assistant and planning agent on Ollama so nothing leaves your laptop, or bring your own Claude / OpenAI key.
Coming from another tool?
See the comparison pages for Asana, monday.com, Microsoft Project, Notion, Trello, ClickUp, Smartsheet, TeamGantt and GanttProject.
Install shadow-planner for free — every feature is in the free tier; €4,99 once removes the project and scenario caps.