AI Project Wizard

The AI Project Wizard is Stellary's guided project creation flow. Instead of starting with an empty board and manually adding columns and cards, the wizard interviews you about your project, then generates a complete roadmap that is converted into a ready-to-use board.

The process follows four sequential stages: Framing → Refinement → Roadmap → Execution. At each stage the AI adapts its behavior based on your inputs, ensuring the final result matches your actual needs.

Framing is where everything begins. You provide two essential pieces of information:

• Project name — a concise title that will become the project's identity across Stellary
• Description — a short paragraph explaining what the project is about, its goals, and its scope

Optionally, you can attach context documents — a brief, a specification, meeting notes, or any file that gives the AI richer background. These documents are analyzed during the refinement stage and significantly improve the quality of the generated questions and roadmap.

Once you submit the framing form, the draft is saved and the wizard advances to refinement.

This is the heart of the wizard. The AI generates a set of contextual questions designed to uncover details that matter for planning: team size, technical stack, constraints, timeline, budget, dependencies, and more.

Questions come in five formats, each chosen by the AI based on what it needs to learn:

The refinement stage runs for a maximum of 4 rounds. After each round of answers, the AI recalculates a readiness score and decides whether additional questions are needed. If the score is high enough, the wizard moves directly to roadmap generation — you may not need all four rounds.

Each question includes a recommended option highlighted by the AI, so you can move quickly when the suggestion fits.

Between each refinement round, the AI computes a readiness score — a percentage that reflects how well-defined your project is based on the answers collected so far.

• Low score (below 50%) — critical information is still missing. The AI will ask more targeted questions in the next round.
• Medium score (50–79%) — the project outline is forming. One or two more rounds will sharpen the plan.
• High score (80%+) — the AI has enough context to generate a solid roadmap. The wizard may skip remaining rounds and proceed directly.

The score is displayed visually during refinement so you always know where you stand. It provides transparency into the AI's decision-making process and helps you understand why certain questions are being asked.

Once refinement is complete, the AI generates a structured roadmap for your project. The roadmap consists of phases, each containing:

• Phase name & description — a clear label and summary of what the phase covers
• Deliverables — concrete tasks or outputs that must be completed within the phase
• Priority — the relative importance of each phase so you know where to focus first

Review the roadmap carefully. If something doesn't look right, you can provide written feedback and ask the AI to regenerate the roadmap. This feedback loop lets you iterate until the plan truly reflects your vision — there is no limit to the number of regenerations.

When you are satisfied with the roadmap, confirm the creation. The wizard converts the plan into a live project board:

• Phases become board columns — each phase is mapped to a column in the kanban view, preserving the order defined in the roadmap
• Deliverables become cards — every deliverable is turned into a card and placed in its corresponding column
• First card in "In Progress" — the first deliverable is automatically moved to the active column so you can start working immediately

After execution, you land on a fully populated board — columns, cards, and a clear starting point. From there you can customize everything: rename columns, add labels, assign team members, and enrich cards with descriptions, dates, and checklists.

The wizard auto-saves your progress at every stage. If you close the browser or navigate away, your draft is preserved and you can resume exactly where you left off.

Each draft follows a state machine that tracks its lifecycle:

You can delete unused drafts at any time from the wizard dashboard. Completed drafts (those that have been executed into a live project) can also be cleaned up once you no longer need them.