Artifacts by Databox - Ask your AI Analyst and get back a ready-to-share report
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Turn any conversation with your AI Analyst into a polished report, slide deck, or interactive document built from your live data. Generate it from a single prompt, then share it via public link or download as a PDF.
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Congrats on shipping this.
The gap between 'I have a question about my data' and 'I have something polished to hand my boss' has always been the part no AI tool solved well.
This closes it. Looking forward to seeing where the format list goes next.
Databox
@gino_battestin1 Thanks Gino. That gap is exactly the one we kept coming back to while building this. On the format list, reports, decks, and calculators are live today, and format conversion means you're not stuck picking the right one upfront. Curious what you'd want to see added next.
I don’t touch reporting for clients, so I wasn’t expecting to use this much. I asked Genie to put together a slide deck for our all-hands update and it just built it, no design help needed. Took me a few minutes instead of the usual back and forth with someone on the team.
Databox
@aljaz_godec That's a great example actually, someone who doesn't normally touch reporting getting a usable deck without needing design help. That's exactly the gap we wanted to close, not just faster for people who already build these, but usable for people who'd normally have to ask someone else.
This is interesting. What's the most surprising query users didn't think to ask?
Databox
@dhiraj_patel5 Good question. Honestly the reports themselves aren't the surprising part, most people expect that. What catches people off guard is turning that same report into a slide deck with one follow-up prompt, or asking for something like an interactive calculator or projection tool instead of a static document. People come in thinking "AI report generator" and don't realize the format list goes well beyond reports.
What makes Genie useful is that it's working from the source data, not trying to interpret a screenshot. It connects to 130+ tools and pulls the numbers directly. So when the report is going to a client or the board, you don't have to manually check every figure before sending it.
Databox
@mateja_verlic_bruncic That's the part we didn't want to compromise on. An AI report is only worth sending if you don't have to fact-check it first, so pulling straight from the same 130+ connected sources instead of interpreting a screenshot was the whole point.
I find this release shows how adaptable and mature Databox is becoming as a company. It already has a pretty sophisticated Databoards feature that has been polished to be pixel-perfect over the years. When users shared data outside of Databox, they shared those Databoards. And we made sure they always made an impression. That they always looked Databox-ish. Years were spent improving them. Loud conference room meetings were spent over positioning pixels on them. It was something we were proud of, and, of course, still are.
Today, we handed some if that control over to our customers through AI (Genie). Building what they share with the outside world. The Artifacts still look Databox-ish, colleagues made sure of that. And it does come with lots of upsides - building Artifact with a prompt is way faster than placing and configuring blocks on a Databoard, plus AI has a lot of knowledge built-in. But still, we had to let go of some of the control we had over what can be shared. What carries our logo.
At the end of the day, that's what customers wanted. And that's what "bites" in today's fast-paced world. Adapting to that need, while knowing it might cannibalise our own prized feature.
That has to mean maturity.
GG Team!
Databox
@aljaazm This sums up the tradeoff better than I could have. We spent years making sure anything shared out of Databox looked polished and unmistakably ours, and handing that pixel-level control to a prompt was the harder internal conversation than any technical build. Landed on "still look Databox-ish, just faster to get there" as the line we were comfortable with. Appreciate you putting it this way, GG team indeed.
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Looks cool!!
Databox
@louislecat Thanks! Here is the live example of one Artifact in action - no login needed, just open it: https://app.databox.com/shared/artifacts/8cc805b913e00e1c4641a177acf11867
Congrats on the launch!
Databox
@fedulovelena thank you! your support means a lot!
This one lands at a good time for us. Half my week goes into turning dashboard numbers into something a client can actually read, so going from a question straight to a finished deck sounds great. For agencies running several accounts, can I save a house style once so every report comes out with the right branding by default?
Databox
@doganakbulut Good timing then. Right now you can ask Genie to restyle to your brand colors, fonts, and layout per report, and it'll match every time you ask, but there's no saved theme yet that auto-applies without you specifying it. Saved themes for exactly this reason, set your house style once and have it stick, is on our roadmap next. For now the workaround is just including your brand details in the prompt each time you generate a report.
Databox
@doganakbulut One more thing worth flagging, we're also launching Skills soon, which will let you standardize this at a template level instead of prompting brand details every time. Think of it as packaging your house style once into a Skill, then every report you generate through it follows that branding automatically. Should solve exactly the multi-account problem you're describing. Happy to loop you in when it's live if that's useful.
The question I get most on calls is some version of 'so once Genie answers, then what.' Before, the answer was a chat message. Now it's a finished report or slide deck with your actual data in it, shareable with a link. For prospects who need to show something to their team after a demo, that's a much easier story to tell.
Databox
@kenneth_won Love that framing, "so what happens after Genie answers" is exactly the gap we were closing. Nice callback for the calls, thanks for jumping in on the thread today.
Would love a native "anomaly explanations" panel that shows the most likely contributing factors for each spike or dip detected, instead of just flagging the change. Would save me a ton of time compared to manually drilling into the data every time.
Databox
@reviewpro Good news, this is closer than you'd think. Genie already does anomaly detection, so you can ask for a report that flags spikes or dips along with the likely contributing factors, rather than just the raw change. Worth trying that directly in a prompt and seeing how it holds up against what you're doing manually today.