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Introducing Cypress AI — build org charts from a description, a list, or a screenshot.

5 min read · April 2026 · Product

Today we're launching Cypress AI, the first org chart generator that reads three different kinds of input — a natural-language description, a pasted list, OR a screenshot of an existing chart — and builds a complete, editable org chart in about 10 seconds.

If you've ever stared at a blank canvas wondering whether to start with a template, paste a CSV, or just give up and use a whiteboard, Cypress is for you. It's available to every OrgCanvas user including the permanent free tier (10 generations included), and it works on whatever you have lying around.

Three ways to start a chart

From a description

Describe your team in plain English and Cypress builds the hierarchy. No template gymnastics. No node-by-node entry.

"5-person engineering team with a VP, two senior engineers,
and two juniors reporting to a tech lead."

Cypress generates the right number of nodes, infers reporting relationships, picks departments from a canonical palette, and uses placeholder names like "Senior Engineer 1" / "Senior Engineer 2" when you haven't named individuals — you rename them in seconds.

From a pasted list

Paste names + titles + reporting relationships in any format — from Slack, an email, a meeting doc, a roster spreadsheet. Cypress dedupes, normalizes department names, and figures out the structure.

Sarah Chen — CEO
Marcus Webb — VP Engineering (reports to Sarah)
Anya Patel — Director of Product (reports to Sarah)
Jin Park — Staff Engineer (reports to Marcus)
Priya Shah — Designer (reports to Anya)
From a screenshot or image · vision-capable

This is the one no other org chart tool does. Upload a screenshot, a photo, or an exported image of an existing org chart — from Lucidchart, Visio, Workday, BambooHR, a PDF, or even a phone photo of a printed chart on someone's wall — and Cypress reads the image and rebuilds it as an editable OrgCanvas chart.

Under the hood, Cypress uses purpose-built vision-capable AI to identify every person card, trace every connecting line, infer titles and departments, and preserve vacant positions and group/category nodes (e.g., a "POD LEADERS" header card with sub-leaders beneath it). Works on charts in 30+ languages including non-Latin scripts (Hindi, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew).

Why Cypress is different

Most "AI org chart" features in the market do one of two things: they generate a chart from a CSV (which is just structured-data parsing, not really AI), or they offer a one-line text prompt with a fixed template structure. Cypress is the first generator that handles all three input modes — description, list, AND vision — in a single feature.

Free to try

10 lifetime generations on the free plan. No credit card needed.

Vision-capable

Reads existing charts from any image source — the only org chart tool that does this.

Privacy-first

Runs on our private AI infrastructure under a strict no-training policy. Your data is never used to train models.

Privacy & data handling

Cypress runs entirely on our private AI infrastructure. Your prompts and images are processed and the response returned to you — no retention server-side. Data passed through Cypress is never used to train models, and we don't share prompts or images with any third party. Conversation history is stored only locally in your browser, never on our servers.

For the full data-handling breakdown, see the Cypress AI privacy section.

Pricing & limits

What we're building next

This is v1. On the roadmap:

Try Cypress AI free

10 lifetime generations included on the free plan. No credit card. No prompt engineering.

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