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From procedure to professional process map — in minutes, not meetings.

Type it, dictate it, or upload the procedure you already have. Swimlane Studio parses the steps, assigns the lanes, routes clean 90° connectors, and exports a boardroom-ready map to PDF or Visio.

How the parser reads your steps

  • Role: action — text before the colon becomes the swimlane. Steps without a role stay in the previous lane.
  • End a step with ? to make it a decision diamond.
  • -> 4 routes a branch to step 4. Add a label: -> 4 (No). A decision's unlabeled path continues to the next step as "Yes".
  • Start with END to mark a terminator, e.g. END Finance: Payment issued. A Start node and final End are added automatically.
  • Numbered prefixes (1., Step 2:) are stripped automatically — paste straight from an SOP.
Visio also opens the SVG directly (File → Open) as fully editable shapes if you prefer.