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Generative BI (GenBI)

Generative BI (GenBI) is business intelligence where AI generates the analytical artifacts themselves–SQL queries, charts, dashboards, and written summaries–directly from natural language requests.

GenBI is the generative-AI wave applied to analytics. Where conversational BI lets you ask questions, generative BI builds the deliverables: say "build me a dashboard tracking weekly revenue, churn, and signups by channel" and the queries, visualizations, and layout are generated rather than assembled by hand. The promise is speed–analytics output in minutes instead of sprint cycles. The discipline it requires is verification: generated artifacts need to be grounded in the real schema and inspectable, because a polished dashboard built on a subtly wrong query is worse than no dashboard.

Fig — every answer ships with the tables, rows and SQL behind it.