Auto Prioritization

Auto Prioritization re-orders your entire backlog into a ranked build order using AI, scoring each task and showing a plain-language explanation for where it lands.

How it works

TARO ingests your backlog (pasted tasks, CSV import, an existing TARO project, or the API), deduplicates it, and parses each task for title, description, labels, due dates, and dependency links. It then scores every task across three axes (due date urgency, dependency weight, and strategic impact) and combines them into a single composite priority rank. The result is a list ordered from highest to lowest priority, with the reasoning behind each position shown beneath the task. The ranking re-scores whenever the backlog state changes.

Key capabilities

• Scores every task across three axes and combines them into one composite rank.
• Shows a plain-language explanation for each task's position.
• Maps the full dependency graph so tasks blocking many downstream items rank higher; blocker age increases the score over time.
• Uses due dates as an urgency signal, moving overdue tasks to the top.
• Infers strategic impact from project tags, task labels, descriptions, and historical outcomes; strategic weight is configurable per workspace.
• Re-ranks automatically when a task, due date, dependency, or label changes, or switch to manual mode to approve re-ranks.
• Supports manual overrides: drag and pin a position, mark a task "force top" or "deferred," with overrides logged by user and time.
• Works on backlogs with no due dates by weighting dependency and strategic impact more heavily.

Tips

After ranking, related features continue the workflow: see Completion Analysis, Risk Prediction, Workload Distribution, and Smart Task Creation.