AI flowchart generator.
For a process with decisions in it, where the question is what happens next rather than what talks to what.
What a flowchart shows
One process, as a sequence of steps and decisions, from a start to one or more ends. It is the right diagram for onboarding flows, approval chains, incident runbooks and any branching logic that people need to follow. It is the wrong diagram for anything with several independent actors, where a sequence diagram keeps the participants distinct and a flowchart flattens them into one line of control.
How Lucid Train draws one
Describe what you want, or point it at a repository. The agent emits a semantic graph of nodes and edges with no coordinates, and the ELK layout engine computes positions and orthogonal routing. That separation is the reason the output cannot come back with boxes overlapping or arrows crossing through cards, which is the characteristic failure when a language model is asked to place things on a canvas itself. It also means editing is editing the graph: change a component and the layout re-solves rather than drifting out of alignment.
Left to right, because branches need horizontal room
Flowcharts are laid out horizontally rather than in tiers, since a decision produces parallel branches that need to sit beside each other. The layout engine handles the routing, which is the part that goes wrong when a flowchart is drawn by hand: branches that rejoin several steps later produce long edges that a person routes badly and a solver routes well.
Every decision needs both branches labelled
The most common defect in a hand-drawn flowchart is an unlabelled or missing branch, which leaves the reader unable to follow one of the paths. Labelling both outcomes of every decision is a small discipline that makes the difference between a diagram someone can act on and a picture of a process.
Local, offline, your models
It runs as a desktop application. Against a local Ollama model the whole thing works offline with no API key and no telemetry, which is the practical difference from every browser-based diagram tool: your architecture never leaves the machine.
Flowchart notation
| Shape | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Rounded rectangle | Start or end |
| Rectangle | A step or action |
| Diamond | A decision, with labelled outgoing branches |
| Parallelogram | Input or output |
| Cylinder | A data store |
| Circle | A connector to elsewhere in the chart |
| Arrow | Flow of control from one step to the next |
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