Free roadmap maker — no signup, 4K image for PowerPoint

What you get when you open it

Eight items across three teams, already on a timeline, plus a board grouped by status and a table with every field visible. You start by editing something real, not staring at an empty grid.

Each item has a name, stage, team, status, owner, start and end dates, and a milestone flag. Add your own fields when you need them. They’re saved in the document, so they travel with the file.

Getting it onto a slide

Pick a size and you get an image of the current view at that size. For a 16:9 slide that’s 3840 × 2160, a 4K frame that stays sharp on a projector. The roadmap is scaled to fit the frame, so nothing falls off the edge. SVG comes out at the same dimensions if you need to scale it further.

Why the export is an image

It’s a picture for your slide. A .pptx of editable shapes would be a second copy of the roadmap, and you’d end up nudging it by hand every time the plan moved. With an image, you change the roadmap, export again and replace the picture. The slide never drifts from the plan.

One roadmap, a view per audience

Set up one thing on day one: a saved view for each audience. Your squad needs owner and status; a director needs a theme and a quarter. Build a view for each and change an item once. Both views are current, and there’s no second copy to remember.

Prefer a defined structure? The Now Next Later roadmap template holds up best with leadership. If your team already works in columns, start from the Kanban roadmap template: the board is set up, plus a leadership view without the columns. If the slide itself keeps going stale, the guide to roadmap slides in PowerPoint covers the re-export habit.

Your roadmap is a file

The document is a single .roadmap.json file with readable field names. It opens in any text editor, reads sensibly in a diff, and can live in version control beside the code it describes. The file format is published, so you can read or write roadmaps without this editor.