Explore the Sample Project
Every new organization comes with Atlas SaaS — a sample project with a team, goals, and tasks already in place. A human said what to ship, an agent broke it into tasks with estimates, and Plenar produced the rest — assignments, start and end dates, the projected ship date, the health of each goal.
Open your projects and click Atlas SaaS.
How Plenar models work
Before clicking around, the structure:
From your tasks, your team, their skills and availability — and the dependencies between tasks — Plenar computes:
- Who works on each task
- The order tasks run in (sequencing dependencies, parallelizing what it can)
- When each task starts and ends
- When each goal will finish (its ETA)
- The projected ship date for the whole project
Set a target date on a goal or milestone to give Plenar a deadline to plan toward. Plenar prioritizes arrangements that hit the target and flags slippage when the ETA falls past it.
Browse the project
Every task has the same set of fields:
You see the same tasks in two views — pick whichever fits the moment:
Timeline — Gantt chart for the time picture. Things to try here:
- Click a task to open its detail panel
- Collapse a goal to hide its tasks and focus
- Look at the rows above the chart to see who’s working when
- Turn on the dependency view from the Controls sidebar panel to draw lines between tasks that must happen in sequence
Scope — dense spreadsheet for bulk editing. One row per task with all the fields above as columns. Click any cell to edit inline.
Both views group tasks under milestones and goals by default. Switch the grouping (status, scope, assignee, or a flat list) from the toolbar dropdown: Goal → Milestone .
Try changing an estimate from the Scope tab. The New Plan sidebar icon picks up a small dot — blue while Plenar computes the preview, green when it’s ready to apply.
Preview and apply
Any edit that would shift the plan — a different estimate, a new assignee, a moved target date — opens the New Plan panel instead of applying immediately. You see what the plan would look like before committing:
The panel shows you:
The Plan of Record only changes when you click Apply. So the New Plan panel doubles as a sandbox — make a change just to see what would happen (“what if I cut this estimate in half?”, “what if Elena Petrova took the security review?”, “what if I added another engineer?”), then Discard to leave the plan untouched.
Try it: in the Scope tab, add a few days to a task estimate. Open the New Plan panel and watch the goal and milestone ETAs shift. Apply or discard when you’ve seen enough.
Health
You’ll see health on every goal and milestone throughout the app — as colored icons in the chart views, as labeled badges in detail panels.
When a goal or milestone has a target date set, Plenar compares its ETA against the target and surfaces a health state:
| Health | When it shows |
|---|---|
| Done | All child work is completed |
| At Risk | A child task is blocked |
| Off Track | ETA is past the target date |
| On Track | ETA is on or before the target date |
| In Progress | Work has started, no target date set |
| Not Started | No work started yet |
Target dates do two things: they drive planning (Plenar prefers arrangements that hit your deadlines, with higher-priority goals weighted more heavily) and they drive health (the ETA is compared against the target to flag slippage). Without a target date, Plenar can show progress but has no deadline to plan toward or track against.
Try it: in the Scope tab, move a goal’s target date earlier. Open the New Plan panel and watch the goal’s health shift from On Track to Off Track. If it can, Plenar will rearrange tasks to recover.
Common questions
Where do I see goal health? On every goal and milestone — as colored icons in the Timeline and Scope tabs, as labeled badges in the New Plan and Plan of Record panels.
How do I change a task’s estimate? Two ways. From the Scope tab, click the Estimate cell and type a new value. Or from anywhere in the app, click a task to open its detail panel and use the + / − stepper next to Estimated cost. Both go through a preview before applying.
What happens when I edit something? Schedule-affecting changes open the New Plan panel with a preview. Click Apply to commit, Discard to throw it away. The plan only changes when you apply.
Where do I see who’s working on what? Above the chart in the Timeline view — rows show each team member with weekends shaded.
What does the dot on the New Plan or Plan of Record icon mean? It signals the state of the computation:
- Blinking blue — Plenar is still computing
- Solid blue — feasible (a valid plan, but not provably the best)
- Green — optimal (best plan possible given the constraints)
- Amber — partial (some items couldn’t fit, expect warnings)
- Red — infeasible (no valid plan exists — usually a conflict to resolve)
The same dots appear on the Plan of Record icon when the current plan changes state.
Can I see what would happen without committing? Yes — the New Plan panel is also a sandbox. Make any change, look at the preview, then Discard to leave the plan untouched.
Driving Plenar from an AI agent
If you’ve connected Claude Code, the same things you tried by clicking work as natural-language requests:
Plenar returns a preview for each one — nothing applies until you say “apply”. For the day-to-day agent workflow (starting tasks, reporting blockers, linking PRs), see Track progress with Claude Code.
What to do next
You’ve seen how Plenar handles a plan. To do this for what you’re shipping:
- Create your own project — build a project for what you’re shipping, either from the dashboard or by describing it to your AI agent.
- Connect Claude Code — wire up the MCP integration so you can drive Plenar from your editor.
- Invite your team — add the people doing the work, set their skills and availability.
Going deeper:
- Manage your plan — the edit → preview → apply loop in depth
- Goals & milestones — how to structure outcomes and intermediate deliverables
- Goal health — how target dates and ETAs drive planning
- Track progress with Claude Code — daily agentic workflow
- How scheduling works — the model behind the plan