AI Gantt chart generator from text

Gantt charts are the classical project management view. Reach for them when your audience needs to see three things at once: what phases exist, how they overlap in time, and where the dependencies are. They shine for engineering planning docs ("here's our 12-week MVP timeline"), stakeholder updates that need a visual TL;DR of "when is this ready?", and any pitch where you need to demonstrate you've thought through sequencing. Where they fall short: as living documents. A Gantt chart in a static doc is out-of-date the moment reality diverges from plan. Real teams that live in Gantt charts use dedicated tools (Asana, Monday, Jira Advanced Roadmaps) that auto-update from actual task status. Use Mermaid Gantt for the initial "here's the plan" artifact — the checkpoint at project kickoff — not for ongoing tracking. Mermaid's gantt syntax supports date formats, section grouping, task durations, dependencies (`after taskId`), and milestones. It's intentionally simple compared to full PM tools — no resource assignment, no critical path highlighting, no exact-date-drag rescheduling. That's the tradeoff for something you can `git commit` and version-control alongside the code the roadmap describes.