Celerity
https://trycelerity.vercel.app
Inspiration
Celerity was born from a simple problem: mental chaos kills productivity. Most people know what they want to do, but turning scattered thoughts into structured, actionable plans is painful. Traditional task managers are rigid and slow, so people abandon them.
Celerity flips this model. Instead of forcing structure first, it lets users dump their thoughts and uses AI to turn that chaos into clarity.
What It Does
Celerity is an AI-powered task planner and project management tool that converts natural language input into structured workflows.
It allows users to:
- Instantly generate tasks from plain text
- Organize work using multiple views:
- Kanban
- List
- Flow Visuals
- Timeline
- Track deadlines and progress in real time
- Chat with the planner to reprioritize and decide what to focus on
- Adapt plans as user behavior evolves
- Focused Chat AI with informations and only based on your subtask
The goal is fast planning with zero friction.
How We Built It
Celerity is a web application deployed on Vercel using modern frontend technologies (Tailwind/ ShadCN/ Supabase Auth / Next.js). AI models process user input and transform it into structured tasks and timelines.
The architecture focuses on:
- Real-time UI updates
- Clean, distraction-free design
- Tight integration between AI-generated tasks and manual control
- Focused Chat with AI
Challenges We Ran Into
- AI reliability: Free-form AI output had to be constrained so task generation stayed consistent and useful.
- Multi-view synchronization: Keeping Kanban, list, and timeline views perfectly in sync required careful state management.
- User predictability: The system needed to feel smart without behaving unpredictably.
Accomplishments We’re Proud Of
- Task generation that works from messy input
- Seamless switching between multiple planning views
- Conversational task management that feels natural
- A clean UI focused entirely on clarity and execution
What We Learned
- Users want clarity, not feature overload
- AI needs constraints to be genuinely useful
- Productivity tools must be predictable to build trust
- Shipping fast and iterating beats overplanning
What’s Next for Celerity
- Deeper personalization based on user behavior
- Collaboration features for teams
- Integrations with calendars and external tools
- Full mobile experience
- Performance and AI prioritization improvements
Celerity aims to become a personal AI productivity engine — not just another to-do app.
Built With
- auth
- next.js
- react
- shadcn
- supabase
- tailwindcss
- typescript
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