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title: Welcome to PlanExe
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# Welcome!

PlanExe turns a single plain-English goal into a ~40-page [strategic plan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_planning) in ~15 minutes using local or cloud LLMs. It’s an accelerator for first drafts — not a replacement for human refinement. PlanExe removes most of the labor for the planning scaffold; the final 10–30% that makes a plan credible and defensible remains human work.

**Try it first, then decide if you want to run it locally.**

- **Open a full sample report (HTML)**: [Minecraft Escape sample report](https://planexe.org/20251016_minecraft_escape_report.html)
- **Try PlanExe in your browser (no installation)**: [planexe.org](https://planexe.org/)
- **See more examples**: [planexe.org/examples](https://planexe.org/examples/)

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## Start here (pick your path)

Use the short decision guide: [Start here](start_here.md)

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## Core guides

- [Prompt writing guide](prompt_writing_guide.md)
- [Plan output anatomy](plan_output_anatomy.md)
- [Costs and models](costs_and_models.md)
- [Business model (developer)](business_model.md)

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## What you get

PlanExe generates a **single HTML report** (a self-contained artifact you can open in a browser). See the sample report here:
[Minecraft Escape sample report](https://planexe.org/20251016_minecraft_escape_report.html)

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## 2-minute tour

Open the sample report and do this:

1. Read **Executive Summary** to see the top-level deliverables, budget, risks, and next steps.
2. Jump to **Gantt Interactive** to see how the goal gets broken down into many concrete tasks.
3. Open **Premortem** to see what could go wrong and what to do about it.

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## Get help

If you run into issues, **join the PlanExe Discord** — the community and maintainers are there to help. When you ask, include what you tried, your setup (OS, Docker vs local, model/LLM), and any error output so others can help you quickly.

**[Join the PlanExe Discord →](https://planexe.org/discord)**

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## Links

- Website: [planexe.org](https://planexe.org/)
- GitHub: [PlanExeOrg/PlanExe](https://github.com/PlanExeOrg/PlanExe)
- Discord: [planexe.org/discord](https://planexe.org/discord)
