Waterfall PM beta — open now

The project management tool between Trello and Microsoft Project.

A full WBS, self-scheduling Gantt, and Kanban board in one tool. Add a dependency and the whole schedule adjusts. Join the beta free and help us build the project management tool waterfall teams need.

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No credit card. Free for the entire beta period.

Beta testers lock in founder pricing: $6per PM per month, half Pro's annual price, for the life of your account. Team members are always free. See pricing

Waterfall PM: a work breakdown structure on the left and a self-scheduling Gantt chart on the right, with status-coloured bars, dependency arrows, a milestone and the today line.

The Trello / Asana / monday side

Beautiful UX, fast to set up — but the moment you have real dependencies, the Gantt is decorative. Move one task and nothing else updates. WBS depth ends at two levels. Critical path is a concept, not a feature.

The MS Project / Smartsheet side

A real scheduling engine — but the UX is from 2002, the pricing assumes you have an IT department, and onboarding a non-PM team member is its own project.

Waterfall PM is the middle.

The scheduling rigor of MS Project. The interface of something built this decade. For teams that plan the whole thing up front and need the plan to actually hold together.

Everything in one place

No integrations to stitch together. The WBS, Gantt, board, and notifications are all the same data — just different views.

Work Breakdown Structure

Organize your project into phases, tasks, and milestones in a hierarchical table. Drag rows to reorder, Tab to nest — the WBS is the backbone that drives everything else.

Auto-scheduling Gantt

Add a dependency and the Gantt chart adjusts instantly. Move one task and every successor shifts with it. Critical path highlights automatically — no manual maintenance.

Four dependency types

Finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish, and start-to-finish, with lag or lead typed in MS Project notation. Model the real relationships between your tasks, not a simplified approximation.

Resource assignment

Assign team members to tasks with allocation percentages. Use work-based scheduling and task duration adjusts automatically as you add or remove people.

Kanban board

The same tasks, viewed by status. Drag cards to change status and the WBS updates in real time. Both views are always in sync — no duplication.

Automated notifications

Email alerts when tasks slip, statuses change, or you're @-mentioned. Assignees are notified when the schedule shifts — no one misses a change.

From plan to progress in minutes

1
Build your WBS
Break the project into phases and tasks. Set durations, assign resources, mark milestones. Use the keyboard or drag and drop — whichever is faster for you.
2
Wire up dependencies
Select tasks and press L to link them finish-to-start, or type 1.2FS+3d into the Predecessors column to set the type and the lag at once. The Gantt and critical path update instantly — no manual adjustment.
Before
Move one task and everything behind it follows — including the milestone.
3
Track and let it adjust
Mark tasks in progress or done on the Kanban board or WBS. The schedule re-runs automatically — slipping tasks slide forward, successors follow, and assignees are notified.
Before
Finish a task and the next one is readied for you.