Zovo Swimlane

Swimlane flowcharts from your process steps.

Zovo Swimlane turns a process into a cross-functional flowchart. Give the lanes (roles, teams or systems), the steps with the lane that owns each one, and the links between them. Each step is drawn inside its own lane, as a start, step, decision or end shape. The flow runs left to right with lanes as rows, or top down with lanes as columns. Steps are placed in flow order, so links outside a loop point forward; loops are drawn with a dashed return line and listed. Links run in the space between the steps, and decision branches carry their labels. A geometry check on the final drawing counts steps outside their lane, overlapping steps, overlapping labels and lines that cross a step, and reports each count. A process check lists steps not reachable from a start, steps with no path to an end, decisions with fewer than 2 labeled branches and loops. Downloads: a vector PDF (Letter, A4 or Tabloid, text of at least 6 pt, more pages for large processes with the lane names on each page), an SVG and a CSV of the steps with lane and flow position.

What it does

Lanes as rows (left to right) or as columns (top down), 2 to 12 lanes
Start, step, decision and end shapes; each step inside its own lane
Flow order: links outside a loop point forward; loops drawn dashed and listed
Geometry check on the drawing: steps outside their lane, overlaps and lines crossing a step are counted
Process check: unreachable steps, steps with no path to an end, decisions without 2 labeled branches
PDF (Letter, A4 or Tabloid), SVG and a CSV of steps with lane and flow position

Try asking

“Swimlane: lanes Customer, Sales, Warehouse; Customer places order -> Sales checks credit -> Warehouse ships”

“Check my order process for steps that do not reach the end”

“Draw our hiring process as a vertical swimlane PDF on A4”

Limitations

Up to 12 lanes, 150 steps and 300 links; 120 characters per step and 40 per label
Steps are placed automatically by flow order; manual positions, colours per step, sub-processes and message flows between pools are not supported
Refused with the reason: unknown lanes or ids, duplicate lanes, ids or links, a link from a step to itself, no start or no end step, an end step with outgoing links, a decision without 2 labeled branches; it does not guess
The PDF font covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Vietnamese; Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew and emoji show as ? in the PDF (the SVG and CSV keep them)
PDF text is at least 6 pt; when one step with its branch labels is wider than the page at 6 pt (for example a decision with 15 or more labeled branches in the vertical layout on Letter), no PDF is made and the SVG and CSV are, with a note
Files of large diagrams are kept for 1 hour so the download links work, then deleted; download the files to keep them

Add it

ChatGPT: once Zovo Swimlane is approved, add it from the ChatGPT plugin directory.

Claude: go to Customize > Connectors > Add custom connector and enter https://swimlane.zovo.one/mcp. No sign-in is needed. Once Zovo Swimlane is listed in the Claude connector directory, you can add it from there too.

Other MCP clients can connect to the same endpoint: https://swimlane.zovo.one/mcp