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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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.
Turning live data into a polished, shareable document in seconds is pretty incredible.
Databox
@mihael_kegl1 Thanks Mihael. The "in seconds" part is what took the most work honestly, going from a question to something client-ready without any manual assembly in between.
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.
Upstream
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.
Databox
One implementation detail I'm particularly happy with is how Artifacts evolve through a conversation.
When Genie generates a report, you don't have to start over if you want something different.
Need another section? Just ask.
Want a different chart? Ask.
Need to adjust the branding for a client? Ask.
Those kinds of changes happen directly on the existing artifact, so you're refining what you've already built instead of starting from scratch.
For bigger transformations, like turning a report into a slide deck, Genie creates a new artifact while keeping the original report intact. Both versions are available to share, and because they're built from the same connected data and conversation, you don't lose the context that got you there.
We didn't want AI to feel like a series of disconnected prompts. We wanted it to feel like working on a living document that evolves with you.
congrats on the launch! is there a limit to how large the data sets can be/upfront usage? for example if I'm migrating from another tool could I upload my larve pre-existing data sets?
Databox
@ethan_cheng Thanks Ethan. For data already connected to Databox, there's almost no dataset size limit that would block this, it pulls from your existing metrics. For migrating from another tool, we have an Ingestion API where you can push historical data in from other tools or even AI clients like Claude, though I don't have a specific size ceiling for that path in front of me. If you're planning a larger migration, happy to have someone follow up with specifics.