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Don't Manage.
Lead.

Plannibble hands the plan to the people doing the work.

Somebody always ends up being the project manager, and usually it's the person who should be building. The date stays honest, so nobody has to babysit it.

No sign-up to try it. The sample plan is invented: open it, move a bite, and watch the date move.

Checkout, an invented sample plan. Every name, bite and date is made up; the dates are the forecast engine's own. Three open bites are left off the drawing.

You set the Skeleton.

Leaders own the frame: the milestones, the date each one aims for, and what lands after what. That's the whole top layer of the plan. It has no date yet, because nobody has said what the work is.

3 milestones · target Oct 27

  1. Cart and shellTarget Oct 9No bites yet. Lands after no other milestone.
  2. PaymentsTarget Oct 20No bites yet. Lands after Cart and shell.
  3. Checkout betaTarget Oct 27No bites yet. Lands after Payments.

Checkout beta · no date yet · target Oct 27

Checkout, an invented sample plan. Every name, bite and date on this page is made up; the dates are the forecast engine's own.

The team fills it in.

The people doing the work write the bites, estimate them and take them. A bite is one piece of work, small enough that somebody else could take it. Most run half a day to three days, and every estimate is the doer's own range.

12 bites · 2 done · 3 taken · 1 out with another company

  1. Cart and shellTarget Oct 9 · Done
    • Cart schemaDana
    • Checkout shellTheo
  2. PaymentsTarget Oct 20
    • Payments webhook handlerSam
    • Card vault adapterNorthwind
    • Retry and idempotencyOpen
  3. Checkout betaTarget Oct 27
    • Tax rulesPriya
    • Address validationSam
    • Receipt emailOpen
    • Checkout e2e testsOpen
    +3 more bites

The date shows up on its own.

This is the Overview, a live map of the whole project. Each bite is one box, and the chain of work that decides the date runs along the top in orange. Checkout beta is likely Mon, Nov 2, four working days past its target, because the card vault adapter is out with another company and nobody has a date back.

  • The critical path: the chain that sets the date.
  • The ready line: left of it, nothing's in the way.
  • The range, Oct 29–Nov 3, always beside the likely date.

Critical path · it sets the date

  1. Card vault adapterNorthwind · no date back · 3d assumed
  2. Retry and idempotencyOpen · from Oct 19
  3. Checkout e2e testsOpen · from Oct 26
  4. Checkout betalikely Mon, Nov 2

Checkout beta · likely Mon, Nov 2 +4d · range Oct 29–Nov 3

Nib reads the plan so you don't have to.

Nib is the agent that reads your plan in the background and shows its work. It flags what a sharp lead would flag, says what it doesn't know, and never assigns anyone. Here's what it says about this plan.

Nib

The critical path waits on the card vault adapter. Northwind has had it 6 working days with no date back, and I don't know when it lands. I'd draft a stub that tokenises test cards the way the real vault will, so Retry and idempotency can start now. It's 1 day of work. Want me to draft it?

Checkout beta · likely Mon, Nov 2 +4d · range Oct 29–Nov 3

Move a bite. Watch the date move.

Nib drafts; people decide. Your Focus list is the bites you've taken, in the order you'll do them, and moving one is the status update: the plan re-flows and the date moves for everyone. Every move says its price before you make it. Take the stub, then move it to the top.

You get the real date. The team gets to do the work.

Leaders get more visibility, not less. It just stops costing them their evenings, and it stops costing everyone else their autonomy.

If you lead

  • See the critical path and its weak spot without asking anyone for an update.
  • Get the date as a range, with every assumption under it written on the drawing.
  • Hear about a slip first. When the date you promise moves back, you get an email before anyone has to tell you.
  • Hand a bite outside the team and ask for a date back, so a contractor's wait is on the drawing too.

If you do the work

  • Estimate in ranges. Nib's history-adjusted number sits beside yours and never replaces it.
  • Take the bite you want. Nobody assigns it to you, and Nib never does.
  • Leave a bite when your plate is full. It goes back to open. No meeting, no shame.
  • Your plate is yours. It's your estimates against a date, never a percentage, and never compared with anyone's.

What Plannibble will never have.

Some features make a manager feel informed and make everyone else feel watched. We left them out on purpose.

  • Time tracking

    Credit for what you ship, not the hours you log.

  • Utilization heatmaps

    Nobody is a resource running at 80%. People have plates, and only they say when one is full.

  • Percentage bars

    A bite is open, taken, blocked or done. Nothing is 60% done.

  • A workflow designer

    Four states and no setup. If a tool needs a two-week rollout, it's already lost.

  • A chat window for the AI

    Nib works in the background, flags what it sees and shows why. It doesn't want to chat.

  • A private view for managers

    Everyone sees the same plan. There's no second version for the people upstairs.

Free for a small team. $59 a month for a bigger one.

One price per organization, and Team covers 15 people before anything else is added. Guests who join for one bite are free and never counted.

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Your team already knows the real date. Now you can too.