The Gantt timeline view

What this is

Every decision you accept in Verinode can carry an action plan: a set of concrete, dated steps that IQ, your AI Co-COO, drafts and you carry out. The Gantt timeline is where those plans show up as work in motion, one horizontal bar per plan, laid out against real weeks on a calendar, so you can see at a glance what's moving, what's stalled, and what's due next. It reads like a construction schedule board rather than a spreadsheet: chunky blocks, not thin lines.

Verinode does not run the steps for you and does not decide which plan matters most this week. The timeline is a read, not a to-do list it generates on its own: it shows you exactly what you already started, how far along it is, and what's coming due, and every click hands control back to you, either to mark a step done on the spot or to open the full plan.

Where to find it

Open Action Plans from the sidebar (directly under Decisions, no section header above either), which takes you to /actions. The page opens with the description "Every decision you've kicked off, owners, due dates, progress. The work in flight," and the Gantt is the default view.

Two view-toggle icons sit at the right of the filter bar: the first (a stack of bars) opens Gantt view, the second (a grid) opens Calendar view. Both read from the same filtered set of plans, so switching between them never changes what's included, only how it's drawn.

The board and its ruler

At the top of the card, a sticky corner reads Active plans, with a line underneath counting how many plans are underway, for example "6 plans underway." To its right, a two-row ruler runs across the top of the timeline:

• The top row groups weeks by month, each month's label spanning however many week-columns fall inside it.
• The second row marks each week's start date. Every column but the current one reads "Week of" above its date; the column holding today reads "This week," highlighted in copper with a thin copper bar across its top edge.

The ruler covers 16 week-columns (starting one week before the current week), so you're looking at roughly a four-month rolling window at a time. A thin copper vertical line runs down through the whole board marking exactly where today falls inside its week.

Both the ruler and the label column on the left stay pinned in place as you scroll, so you can pan the board sideways to reach a plan's later steps, or scroll down through a long list of plans, without losing track of which week or which plan you're looking at. The whole board scrolls inside its own card; the page underneath it does not scroll.

One row per plan

Each row is one decision's plan. The left-hand label cell (clicking anywhere in it opens the plan) shows:

• The decision's title, in bold.
• The related client, vendor, or carrier name, if the decision is tied to one.
• The estimated dollar impact, when the decision has one, formatted as a compact figure with its time basis attached, for example "$40k/yr," "$1.2M," or "$500 one-time."

Below that, the label cell shows one of three states, depending on where the plan actually is:

• Planning. A pulsing copper pill reading "Planning." IQ is still drafting the plan; the timeline track next to it stays an empty grid until a plan lands.
• Ready to start. A step count ("3 steps") plus a copper Execute Plan button (it reads "Starting…" while the click is in flight). The plan has steps but hasn't been anchored to a start date yet, so there's still no bar to draw. Clicking Execute Plan anchors the plan to today and the timeline populates on your next look at the page.
• In progress. A progress readout, "X/Y steps," with a thin copper fill bar underneath showing what fraction is done. This is the state that actually draws a bar on the timeline.

Reading the bar

For a plan that's in progress, the timeline track draws a single rounded bar spanning from the day the plan started to the due date of its last step, clipped to whatever part of the 16-week window is visible. The bar is built from one segment per step, each colored by that step's own status, separated by a thin grout line so it reads like poured concrete blocks rather than a solid stripe:

• Green, the step is completed. A white checkmark appears on the segment if it's wide enough to hold one.
• Red, the step is overdue.
• Full copper, the step is due today.
• Lighter copper, the step is due tomorrow.
• Faint copper tint, the step is upcoming, further out.
• Grey, the step hasn't started yet.

The legend along the bottom of the card spells this out with the same five swatches: Completed, Overdue, Due today, Tomorrow, Upcoming, plus the line "Hover a step for details · click the bar or any step to open the plan."

Hovering and marking a step complete

Hover any segment and a small floating card appears below it, showing:

• "Step N · " followed by its status in plain words: Completed, Overdue, Due today, Due tomorrow, Upcoming, or Not started.
• The step's title, in bold.
• "Due" followed by its date.
• Two buttons: Mark complete (or Undo complete if it's already done), and Open plan.

Clicking Mark complete updates the segment immediately, no reload needed, while the change saves in the background. If it fails to save, the step quietly reverts so the board never shows you a state that didn't actually stick.

Opening the plan workspace

Click anywhere on a plan's title in the label cell, click any step segment on its bar, or click Open plan inside a step's hover card, and Verinode opens the same plan workspace you'd reach from a decision tile: the full step list, owners, templates, and controls covered in the structured action plan. The Gantt is the map; the workspace is where you actually work a step.

Narrowing what the board shows

The dropdown at the top of the page buckets plans by urgency, each option showing a live count: All, Planning, Ready to start, Overdue, Due today, Due tomorrow, Later, Completed. Choosing one narrows both the Gantt and Calendar views to just that bucket, using the same next-uncompleted-step logic that orders the rows. A Select button next to the view toggle swaps the timeline for a flat checklist so you can cancel several in-flight plans at once. See canceling or abandoning a plan for how that flow works.

On mobile

Below the desktop breakpoint, the Gantt becomes a vertical list, one row per plan. Each row shows the title, related name, and impact dollar at the top, then either the Planning pill, a "Ready · N steps" pill, or a colored square plus the next step's status and due date and title ("Overdue · Jul 8, Follow up with adjuster"). A plan with nothing left open reads "All steps complete" in green. Underneath, the same "X/Y steps" count and progress bar appear for any plan that isn't still planning or waiting to start. Tapping a row opens the same plan workspace as on desktop.

Empty states

If you have no plans in motion at all, no matter which bucket you're viewing, the board reads:

"Nothing matches this filter."

If you do have plans elsewhere but the specific bucket you've selected is empty, the message speaks to that bucket instead:

• Overdue: "Nothing overdue. Steps past their due date land here so they don't slip."
• Due today: "Nothing due today. Steps scheduled for today land here as soon as a plan crosses their day offset."
• Due tomorrow: "Nothing due tomorrow yet. Tomorrow's step list builds as the day rolls over."
• Later: "Nothing parked for later. Plans you don't act on today land here so you can pick them up next week."
• Planning: "No plans in the planning beat. New decisions you've accepted but not yet started will land here."
• Ready to start: "Nothing ready to start. Plans whose first step has come due will land here."
• Completed: "No completed plans yet. Plans you resolve land here so you can run a retrospective."

None of these mean something is broken. An empty board just means nothing has crossed into that state yet.

Best-practice example

Say your Action Plans board shows five plans underway. Two sit at the top with a pulsing "Planning" pill, IQ is still drafting them. Below those, a "Ready to start" plan on a vendor renegotiation has three steps queued and no bar yet: click Execute Plan to anchor it and give it a place on the ruler. Further down, an in-progress plan on a slow-paying carrier shows a red segment near its front, hover it, confirm the follow-up call actually happened, and click Mark complete right from the tooltip instead of opening the full workspace. The remaining segments stay copper, due this week and next, so you know exactly what's left without reading a single paragraph.

Related reading

• The structured action plan
• The decision workspace
• Acting on decisions
• Canceling or abandoning a plan
• The Decisions section: overview
• The Feed