Several AI tools can generate dashboards today, but they vary widely in what they produce and how useful the results are for day-to-day business use. Here is a practical breakdown of the main options available right now.
Microsoft Copilot works inside Excel and Power BI. In Excel, it can create pivot tables, suggest charts, and answer questions about your data using natural language. In Power BI, Copilot can generate report pages, create DAX measures, and summarize insights. The limitation is that you need to be working within the Microsoft ecosystem, and the AI is better at enhancing existing reports than building complete dashboards from a blank slate.
Google has added Gemini AI features to Google Sheets and Looker. In Sheets, you can ask questions about your data and get charts or summaries. In Looker, AI can help generate visualizations and explore data patterns. Similar to Microsoft, these tools work best when you are already using the Google ecosystem for your data.
Tableau introduced Tableau Pulse and Einstein Copilot features that use AI to surface insights, generate natural language summaries, and recommend visualizations. These are powerful for teams already invested in Tableau, but the learning curve and licensing costs are significant for smaller organizations.
ChatGPT and similar large language models can write code that generates charts (using Python libraries like Plotly or matplotlib), but they produce static outputs. You get images or code files, not hosted dashboards that update with live data. They are useful for prototyping but not for production dashboards.
AgentUI takes a fundamentally different approach. Instead of adding AI to an existing spreadsheet or BI tool, it is built from the ground up as an AI-powered dashboard builder. You describe what you want to track in plain English (or Spanish), connect or upload your data, and the platform generates a complete, interactive dashboard application. It includes charts, filters, summary cards, and real-time data connections. The result is a hosted, shareable dashboard that your team can use immediately without any technical setup.
The key differences between these options come down to three factors: how much setup they require, whether the output is interactive or static, and whether you need to stay inside a specific software ecosystem. Microsoft and Google tools are convenient if you already use their platforms but require manual configuration. Standalone BI tools are powerful but expensive and complex. ChatGPT is helpful for ideas but cannot host anything. AgentUI gives you a complete, working dashboard from a natural language description, which makes it the fastest path from raw data to a dashboard your team can actually use.