Generate New Processes or Document Existing Ones Automatically

SmartDraw AI lets you generate flowcharts with natural language prompts or your own information. You can generate ideas for what a process should look like based on publicly available knowledge or you can import your own process documentation or step outline to generate a flowchart.

Scenario 1: Generate a Flowchart for a Common Process

If you're in the early stages of process documentation and not sure how to get started, you can describe the workflow you want using natural language to have AI generate a flowchart for you.

Try these example prompts:

Create a typical employee onboarding process for a manufacturing company.

Design a purchase approval workflow.

Build a customer support escalation process for a software company.

Create a software release workflow.

The AI uses public knowledge and common business practices to generate an editable flowchart that serves as a starting point you can edit using SmartDraw's built-in flowchart tools.

SmartDraw AI generating process flowchart from scratch

Scenario 2: Visualize an Existing Process

If you already have data about your own processes and just need to accurately document your procedures, instead of asking AI to invent a process, provide the information you already have.

Your own data can be as simple as the written copy of your existing process documentation, but feel free to try the following formats:

  • Bullet list of steps
  • Outlines
  • JSON
  • Mermaid

If needed, AI can help organize or reformat the information before SmartDraw converts it into a fully editable flowchart.

SmartDraw AI generating existing hiring process flowchart

Continue Editing Your Flowchart

Once your flowchart is generated, you can continue to edit it in SmartDraw:

  • Rearrange steps
  • Insert decision points
  • Add swimlanes
  • Attach data
  • Collaborate with teammates

Use SmartDraw AI to create a starting point that you can turn into a professionally-designed process in minutes.

Learn how to edit flowcharts in SmartDraw.
Editing a flowchart in SmartDraw