We've spent the last few months building Genie, an AI analyst inside Databox. Tomorrow it goes live on Product Hunt.
The short version: you ask a question about your data in plain language, Genie finds the right metrics, runs the analysis, and returns an answer with a chart in seconds. No SQL, no waiting on someone else.
If you've been following along in this forum, thank you the conversations here genuinely shaped how we think about the product.
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Congrats to the whole team on this launch. It has been a long road and seeing it out in the world is genuinely satisfying.
If you are a PM tired of waiting on the data team for every small metric, this one is for you.
Databox
@uros_soukup , this one hits different coming from someone who's been on the journey with us - thank you! 🙏
And that last line is exactly the use case we kept coming back to during building. The PM who needs to know if a metric moved, why it moved, and what to do about it - but doesn't have a data team on speed dial. That back-and-forth is such a productivity killer, and it compounds across every team in the company.
Genie is very much for that person. Ask the question, get the answer, move on.
Really glad to see it out in the world too. Long road indeed - worth it! 🚀
@zigapotocnik, exactly that. We kept coming back to the same friction again and again, so it’s great to finally see it solved in a way that feels simple and useful. Proud of what the team shipped
Big day for the team! Really proud of what we shipped. If you are in sales and rely on numbers to hit your targets, give Genie a try - you will not go back to the old way.
Databox
@stefan_guslov1 , means a lot seeing this from you - you've been a big part of what we shipped today, thank you! 🙏
And that sales use case is real. When your quota depends on the numbers, you can't afford to wait two days for a report or dig through three dashboards to find one answer. Genie puts it right at your fingertips.
Big day indeed - let's go! 🚀
Databox already has the distribution and the data pipes — adding an AI analyst layer is the logical move. The tension worth watching: is Genie a feature upgrade for existing customers, or a new SKU competing against Tableau and Looker AI? That positioning choice determines whether this expands the market or just increases ARPU.
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Such a cool product!
Databox
@tommyismyname , thank you! I'd be happy to give you a product tour if you like
Super proud to be part of the team behind this.
As a sales consultant, I’m always careful about what I recommend vs. what I actually use. Genie is both.
Use it every week, not just in demos 😄
Huge congrats to everyone who made this happen.
Interesting direction. Turning dashboards into something you can actually ask questions to and get clear explanations from makes a lot of sense. I like that Genie focuses on answering “why” instead of just showing metrics.
Databox
@vik_sh you put your finger on exactly the core design decision we made - "why" instead of just "what."
Dashboards have always been great at showing you what happened. But the moment something moves, the next question is always why - and that's where the real work used to start. Digging through multiple sources, correlating data, forming a hypothesis. Genie collapses that gap.
The "why" is where decisions actually get made. Glad that came through clearly! 🙏