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Building Power BI reports with AI agents

An agent can write a whole report as files, but it cannot see what Power BI Desktop draws, nor decide what matters. These articles describe the render loop we use, the split between agent work and human decisions, and how dashboard tools compare.

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Two sketches joined by an arrow labelled decide what to keep: a conversation with a chart on the left, a report page on the right

Field notes14 October 20268 min read

Claude Dashboards and Power BI: explore in Claude, deliver in Power BI

Claude Dashboards answers data questions in a chat. Power BI runs governed reports. What each one does, how they fit, and how an agent bridges the two.AI agents

A unit chart: 77 Desktop renders read by the agent, 35 design calls by a human, 75 of 75 calibration checks passing

Field notes14 October 20269 min read

Reviewing is cheap, deciding is the job: how an AI agent built a Power BI report

An AI agent built Colis Pro, a full Power BI report, in 77 rounds. Where the human time went: the brief, calibrated data, contradictions and choices.AI agents

A terminal running the validate, reload and screenshot-all commands, next to captures of round 1, round 20 and the final render

PBIR & agents14 October 20269 min read

Give your AI agent eyes: the Power BI Desktop Bridge from a Mac

An AI agent on a Mac drives Power BI Desktop in a Windows VM with the Desktop Bridge: write, validate, reload, capture every page, read the PNGs, fix.AI agentsPBIR, PBIP and TMDL