Build a dashboard from questions
The AI Dashboard Builder: questions in, a cohesive dashboard out.
The Dashboard Builder is a Databasin One flow that turns a short list of questions into a finished dashboard. You describe what you want to know; it writes the SQL, runs it, designs a chart for each answer, and drops the ones you keep onto the Dashboard Canvas.
How it works
Open the Dashboard Builder from inside Databasin One and you get a single prompt: what are you trying to answer? From there it works through a few quick stages:
- Plan — for each question, the builder writes one analytical SQL query against your selected data.
- Run — each query executes as you, under your own permissions, against the warehouse you already have selected.
- Design — for each result set, it designs one cohesive chart that fits the shape of the data.
- Preview — you page through the generated visuals and decide which to keep.
It reuses what you've already set up in the chat — your warehouse connection, your model, and your data context. There's nothing to re-pick before you start; you just need a connection and a model selected.
Asking good questions
You can ask up to five questions, and you get one visual per question. That one-to-one mapping is the whole idea: each question becomes a focused tile rather than a sprawling multi-part chart.
Good questions are specific and answerable from a single query:
- "Monthly revenue for the last 12 months"
- "Top 10 customers by total spend"
- "Open support tickets by priority"
Vague, multi-part questions ("how's the business doing?") give the builder too much to model in one query — break them up.
Preview, then keep or discard
Once the visuals are generated, you review them one at a time. For each one you can:
- Keep or discard it — only the kept visuals make it to the canvas.
- Page through chart options — the builder usually offers a couple of takes on the same data.
- Swap the chart type — cycle between bar, line, pie, and scatter.
- Switch to a table — when the numbers matter more than the shape.
Every query the builder plans runs under your own permissions — same as if you'd typed it in chat. The builder can't surface rows you couldn't already query.
Onto the canvas
When you're happy, the kept visuals drop straight onto the Agent Dashboard canvas as tiles. From there it's an ordinary dashboard: reorder, resize, rename, filter, and publish exactly as you would for anything you built by hand.
The builder is a fast first draft, not a locked artifact. Most teams generate four or five tiles this way, then tidy them up on the canvas before publishing.