🐢 Turtle Diagram Builder

✨ Categorize Unknowns with AI

Your whole turtle diagram (including the unknowns) is bundled into a prompt. Paste it into any AI chat — it will ask you ~4–5 questions about the process, then return JSON you import back here.

🐢 How to use this

A turtle diagram is a one-page picture of a single process. Your process sits in the middle, surrounded by 8 groups that describe everything around it — plus an Unknowns pile for anything you're unsure about.

Type a name at the top, then add items to each group (press Enter or click Add). Here's what each group means:

• →Inputs (left box) — what goes into the process (materials, info, orders)
• →Outputs (right box) — what the process produces (product, results)
• 🛠Infrastructure & Resources — machines, tools, facilities (with what)
• 👥People Involved — roles, responsibility, skills (with whom)
• 📄Documents & Records — procedures, SOPs, forms (how it runs)
• 🔗Supporting & Interfacing Processes — other processes it depends on or hands off to (e.g. Purchase, Maintenance)
• 📈Performance Indicators — KPIs & measures (how well it works)
• ⚠Risks — what can go wrong

Not sure where something belongs? Drop it in the amber Unknowns box at the bottom. You can move any item to another group anytime with the small ↪ move dropdown on it.

Click ✨ Categorize Unknowns with AI. Copy the ready-made prompt into ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude — it asks a few simple questions (in your language), then hands back an answer you load straight back here.

💡 New here? Click Load Example to see a finished diagram. Your work auto-saves in this browser. Use Export / Import JSON to back up or share, and Print / PDF for a clean copy.

⬇ Import JSON

Paste a turtle-diagram JSON (from Export, or from an AI), or pick a file. Categorized items are merged in; your existing unknowns are kept, and anything that's now categorized leaves the Unknowns bucket. Tick Replace everything to overwrite instead.