Bricks

What Bricks is

Bricks is an AI data analyst that creates dashboards and reports from your data. You hand it a CSV, an Excel sheet, a PDF with tables or a connected app, and it builds charts, tables, KPIs and written analysis that you then edit. The product targets solo operators, small business teams and non-technical professionals who need presentable dashboards but lack the time, design skills or technical background to build them by hand. The dashboard page puts it as "If you can upload a file, you can create professional dashboards", with no coding, formulas, design experience or data analysis background required. Alongside dashboards, Bricks writes reports, produces standalone charts, edits spreadsheets with AI, turns dashboards into slide decks and draws org charts, so it covers most of the path from a spreadsheet to a presentation.

What you build and how

The main workflow starts on the homepage itself: a "Let's get to work" box where you attach a file or pick a connector, then choose what to create, a dashboard, a spreadsheet, charts or an org chart. File inputs are CSV, Excel (XLSX), PDFs with data tables and images of tables or charts. The AI reads the data, works out what it represents and creates relevant charts, tables and KPIs, with written analysis beside each visualization pointing out trends, patterns and takeaways.

The chart picker on the homepage lists a US geo map, heatmap, treemap, Sankey, funnel, combo, scatter, donut and vertical and horizontal bars. An example gallery shows finished dashboards you can open in Bricks and adapt to your own data, among them coffee sales and volume trends, hospital admissions, hotel bookings, a CPG monthly sales report, an opportunity pipeline, student dropout analysis and a weekly bank cash flow dashboard.

Once generated, a dashboard is fully editable. You can drag and drop charts to reorder them, ask the AI in plain language for changes such as a pie chart of sales by region, or edit any element by hand: colors, text and layout. Professional themes restyle a dashboard without design work. The dashboard page says Bricks "gets you 80% there instantly", and the rest is your editing. Templates let you save a finished layout and reuse it with fresh data each period, which suits monthly reporting.

Interactive filtering lets a viewer click any data point to filter the whole dashboard. Refresh is one click: update the data and every chart regenerates while the layout stays. The dashboard page adds that a dashboard "automatically refreshes as soon as the underlying data changes in your spreadsheet."

Data comes from files or from connectors. The homepage says you can "Import your data from Google Sheets or databases", and its connector list groups sources into marketing, analytics, finance, CRM, spreadsheets, databases, files, project, e-commerce, forms and support. Available connectors include Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel in OneDrive, Google Drive, Notion, Airtable, Smartsheet, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, Stripe, QuickBooks, Google Analytics, Search Console, Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Mailchimp, HubSpot, Zoho CRM, Typeform, Google Forms, Jira, Asana and Trello. A longer list is marked "Coming up", including Salesforce, Shopify, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, MongoDB, Xero, NetSuite and Zendesk, each with an "Interested" button.

Data transformation happens without formulas: you tell the AI what you need and it handles the operation, which helps when a sheet needs cleaning or reshaping before it becomes a dashboard. The AI spreadsheet product covers editing, transforming and analyzing data in the same way.

Beyond dashboards, AI Reporting creates written reports from your data, AI Charts and Graphs produce standalone visualizations, AI Presentations (also called Data to Slides) converts a dashboard into a slide deck in one click, and AI Org Chart builds org charts from organizational data without manual drawing.

Sharing covers the finished product. You can export to PowerPoint or PDF, generate a secure link for online viewing, or present directly inside Bricks. The dashboard page says sharing is one click, with "No more emailing Excel files or struggling with Google Sheets permissions", and that you keep full control over who can access each dashboard.

The evidence from the pages

Bricks is free to start with no credit card required. The dashboard page says "Bricks is free to use for teams of any size. We also offer paid plans with additional features, usage, and support." A Pricing page sits in the site's menu, but the pages here give no prices or plan names for the paid tiers.

The company claims "100,000+ professionals trust Bricks to create dashboard and reports from their data." On security, the homepage says data is "securely stored and encrypted using industry leading data protection measures" and is never used for AI training, and the dashboard page says the company follows industry-standard security practices.

Use case pages cover industries (financial services, education, healthcare, government, retail, manufacturing and supply chain, real estate, technology and construction), teams (sales, marketing, HR, finance, customer support, operations and IT) and company sizes from startups and small businesses to mid-market and enterprise. For learning, the site offers documentation on features, accounts and billing, live weekly webinars with recordings, tutorials, templates, a community and a blog.

Named testimonials sit on the homepage. Luke DeArmond, Vice President of Lending at Heritage Financial Credit Union, says "We went from 20 disjointed reports to consolidated dashboards across all of our departments" and that the monthly reporting meeting "completely transformed because the data is so digestible and usable." Glenn Bradley, General Manager of Alzheimer's Society Tauranga, says the team uses Bricks for monthly performance reports and staff dashboards: "I upload our CRM data and get a dashboard in minutes that I can actually send to my staff." Bevan Milne, Chief Executive Officer of Media Measure, praises "The narrative, the ease of the AI side." Shorter unnamed quotes come from a program manager at a bank who builds dashboards for a 1500 employee company, a marketing agency director who sent a client dashboard within 20 minutes of starting, and a professor who teaches Bricks to students for AI data analytics.

Who it suits and who it does not

Bricks suits small businesses, freelancers, nonprofits and non-technical professionals who need dashboards and reports without a data team. Finance teams preparing monthly reports, marketers pulling campaign numbers from Google Ads or LinkedIn Ads, sales managers working from HubSpot, and HR staff turning workforce data into charts can all get to a first dashboard quickly. The slide deck and PDF exports fit anyone whose dashboard ends up in a meeting, and templates fit anyone repeating the same report every month.

The caveats are depth and scope. Several warehouse connectors, Snowflake and BigQuery among them, are still marked as coming, so a team whose data lives there should check the connector list first. Sharing is by link, export and in-app presentation, which suits internal reporting rather than embedding analytics inside your own product. The company itself says Bricks gets you 80% of the way, so plan some editing time. Teams that need a governed semantic layer or a developer-facing BI platform are better served by a heavier tool.