The short version
PMO Pilot is a PowerPoint add-in made by the PMO Pilot team at Thump LLC for a job project managers do every week: turning a pile of status notes, a spreadsheet nobody fully trusts, and last month's slide into a timeline the steering committee can read in thirty seconds.
Why this exists
Every program review we have prepared started the same way: a thread of emails with the real dates buried in the asides, a plan that lived in three tools, and a slide that had to be redrawn by hand because the last one was made of text boxes nobody could move without breaking something.
The tools that were supposed to fix this all made the same trade: a nice slide in exchange for a form to fill in, columns to map, and a format only the tool could update. We wanted the opposite. Paste what you have. Check every date before it touches the slide. Get native PowerPoint shapes anyone can edit. Next month, paste the new notes and keep the tweaks you made by hand.
That is the whole product. The AI reads the notes; the layout engine makes sure labels never overlap; the slide stays yours.
How it's built
PMO Pilot is built and run by Thump LLC, a small software company that designs and sells digital products; PMO Pilot is its first main one. We build it with AI-assisted tooling, which is the only reason a small team can ship a PowerPoint add-in with 80 timeline looks, 53 program diagrams and an editor, and keep a changelog that moves every week.
A few things we hold to:
- Your plan stays in your file. The timeline data lives inside the PowerPoint file, not on a server. Spreadsheets are read on your computer. Free text goes to the AI only when you press Generate, and is not kept or used for training.
- No account. The free plan works without signing up. Pro is a license key you paste in.
- Nothing is locked in. Download CSV gives you the plan back as a file Excel or MS Project can open, on the free plan.
- We use it on our own programs. What annoys us gets fixed; the changelog is the record.
Say hello
The fastest way to reach us is email: contact@getpmopilot.com. We read everything; if you describe the slide you're stuck on, there's a fair chance it becomes a feature. We write about timelines, roadmaps and program reviews on the blog, and PMO Pilot is on LinkedIn.