Ziqurat
Process mapping, from plain text

Turn a rough outline into a clear process map.

Ziqurat turns simple, nested text into a living flowchart as you type. No canvas to wrangle, no shapes to drag — just write, and watch the structure appear.

Your outline
Customer Onboarding
- Sign up ->[review]
- [review] Review application
-- Approve ->[welcome]
-- Reject ->[followup]
- [welcome] Send welcome kit
- [followup] Send follow-up email
Sign up Review application Approve Reject Send welcome kit Send follow-up
How it works

Three steps. No new tool to learn.

Write your outline

Add another - to nest a step deeper, and [key] plus ->[key] to connect it to another. It's plain text — works with how you already think.

Watch it become a map

Every keystroke updates a live, color-coded diagram beside your outline. No separate diagramming step, nothing to keep in sync.

Keep every project in one place

Sign up and your projects are saved to your account — private to you, ready whenever you come back to them.

Why I made this

Diagramming tools were in the way. So I skipped the canvas.

Ziqurat started as a way to stop dragging boxes around just to say what I'd already written down. Here's the full story behind why it exists.

Read the story

Map your next project in minutes.

Free to start. No credit card required.

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