Agentic BI for modern data teams
Use AI to build and maintain governed dashboards through code, with approvals, audit logs, and your semantic layer in control.
The way we’ve been
doing BI is broken.
Traditional BI
Reports that answer yesterday’s questions
Dashboards sit unused
Build dashboards manually in a UI
Backlog of ad-hoc requests
Spend hours on a dashboard
Agentic BI
AI generates and updates dashboards
Business users get instant answers
AI respects permissions and business logic
Data team maintains guardrails, not queues
Spend minutes on a dashboard
How Agentic BI actually works
Get AI to take actions in your analytics system (not just answer questions), guided by your semantic layer and guardrails.
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74%
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Paid
Outbound
Partner
Agents act
AI builds and maintains dashboards, and generates daily summaries without human intervention. You review and approve, but you don't do the grunt work.
salesdashboard.yml
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description: Sales KPIs for Q1
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updatedAt: “2025-01-01T10:15:47 .4062”
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titles:
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- channel: “Direct Sales”
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- channel: “Partner Network”
Approve
Request changes
Comment
Humans supervise
You set the rules. AI works within them. Every change is auditable, every query is visible, every output is traceable. So, you can trust the data.
Marketing Analyst
Tracks campaigns and audience trends
Growth Agent
Tracks drivers of revenue growth.
FinOps Assistant
Monitors spend and forecasts budgets.
Business users explore
Business teams ask questions in plain English and AI answers instantly. All answers are grounded in your semantic layer. No tickets and no backlog for the data team.
70%
reduction in data team dependency
100%
dashboards built using natural language
95%
decrease in time-to-insight
What Agentic BI
can unlock for you
No more building the
same dashboard twice
Update chart definitions, add breakdowns, and refresh KPI logic without rebuilding in the UI. Deploy once, and replicate everywhere.
Version control
your analytics
Dashboards are versioned, reviewed, and deployed through code instead of being rebuilt by hand in a UI.
End the backlog of "quick requests"
Business users get answers without breaking metrics, duplicating dashboards, or creating competing versions of the truth.
Migrations stop being a nightmare
Need help? Hop into weekly office hours or message us in your dedicated Slack channel — we’re always close by.
AI outputs you
can stand behind
Every answer is traceable, auditable, and grounded in your semantic layer, so AI insights are safe to share with leadership.
No AI lock-in
Bring the models you trust. Lightdash works across Claude, OpenAI, and your internal AI stack.
Kevin Otte
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Data Scientist @ fal
See Agentic BI
in action
Build dashboards from Cursor
No context switching. Analytics ships where your engineers already work. With Agentic BI, AI agents can create charts and dashboards directly from your code editor (using your existing metrics, models, and definitions) without jumping between tools.
Maintain a dashboard without opening the UI
The maintenance work everyone hates is now automated. Agentic BI lets you use AI agents to update charts, add breakdowns, and refresh logic on your behalf, without touching a UI.
Build complete projects from scratch
With agentic BI you can ship entire analytics projects in one go. Use agents to create a full set of charts and dashboards from scratch, grounded in your existing data models and metric definitions.
Use the Lightdash MCP to create and edit charts
Plug BI into your existing AI stack, not another walled garden. With the Lightdash MCP, agents can create and edit charts programmatically - whether they’re running in Claude, Cursor, or your own internal tools.
Pricing
Agentic BI pricing should scale leverage, not cost. Lightdash's AI pricing includes unlimited seats and unlimited AI usage for a flat fee, so you can roll out Agentic BI without doing mental math on every new user or workflow.
Unlimited users
Unlimited visualizations
Unlimited AI usage
Automated migration
Dedicated human support
For any other questions, feel welcome to reach out to our team.
Is Agentic BI safe?
Yes, when it’s built on a governed semantic layer. Lightdash includes permissions, SQL visibility, auditing, and optional verification workflows so teams can control what’s generated and what’s shared.
What about hallucinations?
Lightdash is designed for high-stakes analytics: semantic context + evals + verified answers + query auditing. You can enforce “show your work” behavior and approve outputs before they’re shared.
Which LLM do we need?
Lightdash works with Claude and OpenAI today, and supports LLM-agnostic workflows via the MCP, so you can use what your company already trusts.
How long does it take to set up?
Most teams can start with one workflow quickly, then expand as governance and confidence grow.
Is this just a chatbot?
No, chat is just one interface. Agentic BI is a system where agents can take actions (create/update/maintain) with supervision and guardrails.
Do we have to use AI?
No. Lightdash supports traditional exploration and dashboards alongside AI. Teams can adopt Agentic BI gradually.
I have an infrequently asked question.
Great! We're always around to help. You can chat to us through the live chat on this webpage, or talk to us in our Slack community.
