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Bricks

AI dashboards, reports, and presentations generated from your spreadsheets and databases.

Freemium· Free (20 msgs/mo); Premium $25/user/mo; Pro $100/user/mo; Enterprise customWriting
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Best for

Pick Bricks if you're a non-technical operator who needs to turn spreadsheets and SaaS data into dashboards and decks without learning Tableau.

Skip if

Skip it if you need programmatic/API access today or you're an analyst who already lives in Looker, Metabase, or notebooks.

Bricks is an AI-powered data visualization and reporting platform that turns CSVs, Excel files, Google Sheets, and SQL databases into dashboards, charts, reports, and slide decks with a prompt. The pitch is to collapse the spreadsheet-to-dashboard-to-deck pipeline that normally chews up hours of analyst time into a single conversational workflow, with interactive filtering, one-click data refresh, and reusable templates layered on top.

The target user is the non-technical operator in sales, marketing, finance, HR, or ops who needs a passable dashboard or board-ready report without touching Tableau or Looker. Pricing is freemium and honest: a free tier with 20 AI messages/month and teams up to 3, Premium at $25/user/mo ($17.50 annual) for 200 messages and PDF/PPTX/XLSX exports, Pro at $100/user/mo ($70 annual) for unlimited messages plus Tableau/Power BI exports and embeddable dashboards, and a custom Enterprise tier.

Connectors cover Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, HubSpot, Stripe, QuickBooks and similar SaaS tools, and Bricks states data is encrypted and not used for model training. The notable gap is the API — it's listed as "coming soon" under Enterprise, so for now Bricks is a UI product, not something you can wire into an automated pipeline.

Editor's take

Bricks sits in a crowded "AI for spreadsheets" lane but actually ships the full chain — data in, dashboard and slide deck out — which is rarer than it sounds. The missing API and undisclosed model are the main reasons to wait before standardizing a team on it; for ad-hoc reporting it's a fair freemium bet.

— The AI Tool Bible editorial team

Pros

  • Generates dashboards, reports, and decks from raw data in one tool
  • Generous free tier and transparent per-seat pricing
  • Connects to real databases (Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server) and SaaS like HubSpot/Stripe
  • Exports to PDF, PPTX, XLSX, and (on Pro) Tableau/Power BI

Cons

  • ⚠️ No public API yet — listed as "coming soon" on Enterprise
  • ⚠️ AI message caps on Free and Premium plans will bite power users
  • ⚠️ Underlying model not disclosed, so output quality is hard to benchmark

Use cases

ai-dashboardsdata-reportingspreadsheet-analysisai-presentationschart-generation

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