PlanExe: Turn your idea into a detailed plan
Executive summary, gantt, risks, swot, budget, premortem, and more.
How it works
Describe your idea
Enter a description of your project, from a startup pitch to a complex infrastructure project.
AI pipeline runs
PlanExe orchestrates 100+ LLM calls across legal, financial, and engineering review stages — cross-referencing, challenging, and stress-testing your plan.
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Who is PlanExe for?
- Founders — Stress-test ideas early and avoid expensive mistakes.
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AI that pushes back
Most AI tools just agree with you. PlanExe red-teams your plan to find flaws before you commit serious time or money.
Premise Attack
Deliberately argues that it's a bad idea. It doesn't matter how good your plan is — it will always argue against it.
Premortem Analysis
Imagines your project has already failed and works backwards to find out why.
Self-Audit
Cross-references experts across legal, financial, and engineering domains. Catches inconsistencies and contradictions.
Your plans stay yours
Unlike cloud-based alternatives, PlanExe can run fully offline on your own hardware. That means you can work on sensitive plans without sending them to external services.
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Example plans
Cross-Border Rail Ticketing
Make booking a Lisbon-to-Tallinn train as easy as booking a flight. See European Commission press release.
Deliver a coordinated European program to make cross-border train travel as easy to search, book, and refund, aligned with the European Commission’s proposed Regulation on Digital Booking and Ticketing Services for Rail. Today, travelling by rail across two or more EU member states means stitching together itineraries from disconnected national operators (SNCF, Deutsche Bahn, Trenitalia, Renfe, ÖBB, NS, SJ and roughly twenty more), each with its own fares, booking system, refund policy and disruption handling, while distributors face inconsistent access to real-time inventory and post-sale operations; passengers cannot reliably buy a single through-ticket from Lisbon to Tallinn and lose passenger-rights protection the moment a connection is missed. The objective is to stand up the technical, commercial and governance arrangements that let any compliant distributor — incumbent operator, third-party platform like Trainline or Omio, or a new public European booking service — sell through-tickets across all participating carriers with continuity-of-journey rights, single-payment settlement, harmonised refunds, reduction cards, accessibility for persons with reduced mobility, and bicycle reservations. Scope covers a shared real-time data layer exposed through OSDM-compatible APIs on non-discriminatory commercial terms, an inter-carrier clearing and settlement mechanism, a passenger-rights backstop, and integration hooks for buses, ferries and short-haul air; rollout starts with the busiest cross-border corridors (Paris–Brussels–Amsterdam–Köln, Wien–München–Zürich, Madrid–Barcelona–Lyon, Copenhagen–Hamburg–Berlin) before extending to the full TEN-T network. Stakeholders are DG MOVE, the EU Agency for Railways, CER and national operators, independent distributors, BEUC, national regulators and disability-rights bodies. Horizon is five years: binding standards within eighteen months, mandatory API exposure within thirty, full corridor through-ticketing within sixty. Public-side coordination budget is €1.5 billion covering standards work, conformance testing, the clearing mechanism, a public reference distributor, member-state capacity building and consumer-side rollout (apps, multilingual support, complaint handling); estimate the larger private carrier IT investment separately. Success means 40% of cross-border journeys sold as single through-tickets within five years, distributor complaints halved, and the train becoming the more attractive option than flying on competitive short-haul routes so that fewer travellers choose the plane. Pick a realistic scenario, not the most aggressive one.
India Census
Inspired by this BBC article.
Execute India’s long-delayed decennial population census — the world’s largest national headcount — covering over 1.4 billion people across 240+ million households, originally scheduled for 2021 but postponed nearly five years by the COVID-19 pandemic. Phase 1 begins April 1, 2026, running through September 2026, focused on housing and facilities documentation; Phase 2 runs September 2026 through April 1, 2027, collecting the full demographic dataset including the first comprehensive caste enumeration since 1931 under British colonial rule, broadening caste accounting beyond the historically marginalized Scheduled Castes (Dalits) and Scheduled Tribes (Adivasis) to cover all caste categories.\n\nThe operation deploys over 3 million government workers as enumerators — up from 2.7 million in the 2011 census — equipped with a multilingual smartphone application integrated with satellite-based mapping, offering a digital survey option blended with traditional in-person enumeration. The technology stack must function reliably across India’s extraordinary infrastructure variance: from dense urban slums with intermittent connectivity to remote tribal areas in the Northeast and island territories with no cellular coverage at all. Plan the logistics of training, equipping, deploying, and supervising 3 million enumerators across 28 states and 8 union territories with dozens of official languages, accounting for monsoon season disruption during the middle months of Phase 1, security requirements in conflict-affected areas (Kashmir, Naxalite corridors, Northeast insurgency zones), and the challenge of enumerating nomadic, homeless, and migrant populations who do not fit neatly into household-based survey frames.
The political stakes are enormous and must be treated as a first-order operational constraint. Census results will directly reshape India’s parliamentary map — potentially redrawing constituency boundaries and increasing the number of Lok Sabha seats based on population shifts since the last delimitation freeze in 1976, a process that pits fast-growing northern Hindi-belt states against slower-growing southern states that fear losing political representation. The caste census dimension is equally charged: it is the first comprehensive caste count in 95 years, and its results will inform reservation quotas, welfare targeting, and political mobilization for decades. Expect intense political pressure on methodology, question framing, and data release timing from all sides — the census is simultaneously a statistical exercise and a political weapon.
Address data quality and fraud prevention: the 2011 census relied entirely on paper forms and was plagued by enumeration gaps, duplicate counting, and post-hoc data quality issues. The shift to smartphone-based digital collection is a massive improvement but introduces new risks — device procurement and distribution for 3 million workers, app reliability in low-connectivity environments, data synchronization and deduplication at scale, and the risk of enumerators fabricating entries to meet quotas. Plan quality assurance through independent verification surveys, GPS-stamped entries, and real-time anomaly detection in the incoming data stream.\n\nBudget is estimated at ₹12,000–15,000 crore (approximately .4–1.8 billion USD), funded entirely by the Government of India through the Ministry of Home Affairs, with the Registrar General and Census Commissioner as the executing authority. Success criteria: complete enumeration of 99%+ of households in both phases, provisional population totals published within 6 months of Phase 2 completion, full dataset including caste tables released within 18 months, and the census accepted as methodologically credible by domestic and international statistical bodies. Pick a realistic scenario that accounts for the near-certainty of political interference, regional non-cooperation, and technology failures at the margins.
Denmark adopts the Euro
Currently Denmark uses the Danish Krone (DKK) as its national currency.
Denmark adopts the euro: national transition plan. We, representing Denmark’s ministers, request a structured plan for Denmark to replace the Danish krone (DKK) with the euro (EUR) as the national currency. The plan must respect Denmark’s current EU opt-out on the single currency and outline the legal, political, and operational path from opt-out to adoption, including referendum, treaty change if needed, and a managed transition. Context: Denmark is an EU member with a permanent opt-out from the euro (Edinburgh Agreement). Adoption would require either lifting that opt-out via treaty change and referendum, or a new political and legal process agreed with the EU. The plan should assume a government decision to pursue adoption and set out how to get there and how to execute the change. Scope: Cover (i) legal and treaty steps (domestic law, EU negotiation, referendum design and timing); (ii) economic and financial transition (central bank, commercial banks, payment systems, rounding rules, dual circulation period); (iii) communication and public preparedness (citizens, businesses, municipalities, media); (iv) practical conversion (prices, wages, contracts, IT systems, cash and coin logistics); and (v) timeline and milestones from political decision to full euro use. Stakeholders: Government (PM and relevant ministers), Folketinget, Danmarks Nationalbank, Danish FSA, banks and payment providers, business and employer organisations, trade unions, EU institutions (Commission, ECB, Eurogroup), and the Danish public. Constraints: The plan must be compatible with EU and ECB rules for euro adoption (convergence criteria, ERM II, etc.). No assumption of a “Nordic euro” or separate currency union; Denmark joins the existing euro area. Respect Danish constitutional and referendum practice. Acknowledge political and exchange-rate uncertainty; include risk register and contingency options. Budget and resources: Indicate where the plan has cost implications (e.g. public information campaigns, IT and logistics, legal and advisory work) and suggest rough order-of-magnitude ranges where possible. No requirement to fix a total budget; focus on credible phases and cost drivers. Timeline: Assume a multi-year process (e.g. 4–8 years from decision to full euro adoption), with a clear sequence: political decision → referendum → treaty/legal steps → ERM II and convergence → conversion period → euro day and withdrawal of krone. Deliverables: Executive summary; legal and treaty roadmap; economic and financial transition plan; communication and change-management strategy; implementation timeline with gates and dependencies; risk and sensitivity analysis; and a short section on lessons from other euro adoptions (e.g. Baltic states, Slovakia). Tone: Authoritative and ministerial: suitable for use by Denmark’s ministers in steering the project. Prefer a realistic, sequenced scenario rather than an overly compressed or politically naive timeline. Banned words: Cryptocurrency, blockchain, CBDC as replacement for the transition plan (CBDC may be mentioned only in passing as future context), and any suggestion that Denmark can adopt the euro without changing the current opt-out or without a referendum where constitutionally required.
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