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A dashboard to “compare how departments adopt and use the platform over time.”

It’s almost a year since I joined Ridge AI, and today we’re coming out of beta and opening up to anyone. A nice way to mark the occasion 🎉

It’s been quite a journey, from adding a data agent to the dashboard experience to building whole dashboards through conversation with the build agent. What excites me most is how this shifts your focus toward the questions you want to answer with data, while taking away much of the busywork of assembling charts.

Last month we introduced Build Agent 2, making the agent much more flexible in how it helps you clarify your analytical goals and build a dashboard around them. Bring a clear brief and it gets to work. Start with a broad goal and it asks focused questions grounded in your data. As the dashboard takes shape, it can revisit earlier choices and adjust what it builds as your direction evolves. Since then, we’ve continued testing and refining both the initial dashboards and how you work with the agent to improve them.

A few updates I particularly like:

  • In-place prompting lets you ask questions or request changes directly on a chart or metric. Probably my favorite new feature, because I don’t need to take my eyes off the chart I’m working on.

  • Improved dashboard composition and layouts draw on research from the visualization community to give important views appropriate emphasis and make related charts easier to compare.

  • Expanded metric cards add comparisons and sparklines. Seeing that a metric increased is useful. Seeing whether that increase follows steady growth or a recent dip gives you much more context.

  • Direct editing and conversation work better together. You can resize chart rows and make your own adjustments, and the agent now keeps track of those edits to better respect them as you continue.

Below are three more of my favorite initial dashboards from our evaluations, along with the questions that started them. An initial dashboard is usually just a starting point for exploration to help you identify promising next steps and get ideas for refinements.

A dashboard to “screen football clubs as player-asset portfolios for value, upside, and risk.”

A dashboard to “compare revenue across product families and see where it concentrates.”

A dashboard to “figure out who cancels their booking, what drives it, and what it costs us.”

Try it with your own data! Sign up for a free trial: https://www.ridgedata.ai/start-trial

And if you’re in academia or a nonprofit on a tight budget, reach out and we can get you set up with a free account.

For details see the full announcement.

It’s been fun building this with Ellie, Jeff, Andy, and Elias!

Happy building! 📊