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The secret to smarter BI: letting AI do the heavy lifting

Artificial Intelligence
Oct 15, 2025
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The secret to smarter BI: letting AI do the heavy lifting

Every business wants to make smarter decisions. Yet, in practice, business intelligence often feels like busywork. The dashboards are there, the data is there, but the process behind it still depends on hours of manual effort. Someone has to label columns, clean data, summarize reports, and explain charts in plain language.

That’s not intelligence. That’s labor.

AI is quietly rewriting that story. Not the science-fiction kind of AI that “replaces” people, but the practical kind that frees them; from repetitive, low-impact work that slows decision-making.

And that’s where Luzmo’s Agent APIs come in. They give companies the tools to automate the invisible grunt work behind BI: so humans can finally do what they do best: interpret, decide, and act.

For SaaS companies, that means bringing this intelligence directly into your product. With Luzmo’s embedded analytics and Agent APIs, you can automate data prep, generate insights, and deliver AI-driven dashboards right inside your app. This keeps users engaged and helps them make smarter decisions without ever leaving your product.

The hidden cost of manual BI

If you’ve ever built or maintained dashboards, you know how much time disappears into the small stuff. It’s not the analytics that take the longest: it’s the setup.

  • You’re rewriting “tbl_rev_2024_q3” into something readable.
  • You’re digging through old datasets to find one that still makes sense.
  • You’re checking if someone already made a formula for “net margin.”

Meanwhile, stakeholders keep asking for “real-time insights.”

BI tools have evolved visually (prettier dashboards, easier filters) but the workflow behind them has barely changed. Teams still waste countless hours preparing the very data they want to analyze.

That’s the pain Luzmo set out to solve. By combining embedded analytics with AI automation, SaaS teams can remove the manual layer entirely. Your users get clean, contextualized data and ready-to-use insights automatically, without needing to touch a BI tool or wait for a data team.

When AI does the groundwork

Luzmo’s Agent APIs automate the behind-the-scenes work that BI teams quietly shoulder every day. They’re modular AI building blocks that companies can plug directly into their analytics products or workflows.

Each one focuses on a specific piece of data intelligence: describing, finding, calculating, visualizing, or conversing. Together, they lift the repetitive weight of BI.

Let’s look at how that happens in practice.

1. Understanding data instantly

Before you can analyze anything, you have to understand it. That’s easier said than done when your data warehouse contains hundreds of tables with cryptic names.

Luzmo’s dataset and column description agent automatically generates clear, descriptive labels and summaries for new data. It transforms “cust_txn_hist_v1” into something you can actually interpret: Customer Transactions History, 2021–2024.

It’s a small shift that creates massive efficiency. Every dataset added is immediately readable and searchable, without human intervention.

2. Finding the right data faster

The next bottleneck: finding relevant information when you need it. Traditional search doesn’t always work well in analytics, not when datasets vary in structure or naming.

That’s where Luzmo’s find relevant datasets and columns agent steps in. It uses an embeddings model to understand meaning, not just keywords.

Type “Spain” or “marketing performance,” and it retrieves every dataset connected to that concept, even if the table name doesn’t literally include those words.

Analysts stop wasting time on detective work. They ask a question and get instant results.

3. Creating formulas and visualizations with AI

Once you’ve found the right data, you need to act on it: calculate, visualize, compare.

Luzmo’s formula and visualization agents make that seamless. A developer can integrate them directly into a product so users can simply say:

“Show me profit margin by product line for Q2.”

Behind the scenes, the agent builds the formula, generates the chart, and returns a ready-to-use visualization. No manual setup, no waiting for someone to “build a report.”

That’s the real power of letting AI do the heavy lifting; it quietly clears the friction between intent and insight.

4. Conversational analytics that actually understands context

Data isn’t useful if it sits behind menus and buttons. Luzmo’s conversational agents bring analytics into natural dialogue.

With Luzmo IQ Conversation and Luzmo IQ Message, teams can create chat-style interfaces that remember context. Ask one question about sales, then follow up with, “How about in Europe?” and the agent knows what you mean.

It’s a shift from searching for data to talking to it: and that’s a much faster way to think.

Why this matters more than another “AI feature”

The BI market is full of “AI-powered dashboards” that promise magic and deliver automation for a few clicks. But Luzmo’s Agent APIs go deeper. They give companies control over how AI fits into their data processes.

You decide which agents to use, how to combine them, and where to embed them. That flexibility means you can build data workflows that actually match your organization’s needs, not someone else’s assumptions.

It’s not one AI model trying to guess everything. It’s a toolkit of intelligent pieces that work together: composable, predictable, and adaptable.

When machines prep, humans can think

There’s something refreshing about the idea that AI doesn’t have to replace anyone: it can just take the boring stuff off your plate.

When analysts don’t have to rename columns or summarize datasets, they can finally spend time on interpretation. They can see trends faster, explain patterns clearer, and focus on strategy instead of syntax.

Decision-makers stop waiting days for new reports. Insights arrive in minutes, and discussions shift from what happened to what to do next.

That’s not just more efficient. It’s healthier for the team. Less burnout. Fewer repetitive loops. More space to think creatively about growth.

Built for the future of BI

Luzmo’s AI is faster and more automated than before. Vector embeddings now happen automatically: no manual setup or extra configuration. Luzmo IQ itself has become more responsive and context-aware, choosing the right agents for each task.

And new capabilities, like the upcoming Create Queries agent, are extending this even further, allowing teams to go from a natural-language prompt to a fully formed data query in seconds.

It’s a clear signal of where BI is heading: modular, contextual, and conversational.

The bottom line

Smarter BI isn’t about adding more dashboards. It’s about removing the invisible friction between people and insights.

Luzmo’s Agent APIs automate the repetitive, low-impact work that clogs up analysis (from documentation to visualization) and free humans to make faster, better decisions.

Let AI handle the heavy lifting.

Let your team do the thinking.

👉 Want to see Luzmo’s Agent APIs in action?

Sign up for a free trial and explore the platform.

If you’d like to test the Agentic APIs during your trial, reach out to hello@luzmo.com to request access, or book a demo with our team to see how it works in practice.

Kinga Edwards

Kinga Edwards

Content Writer

Breathing SEO & content, with 12 years of experience working with SaaS/IT companies all over the world. She thinks insights are everywhere!

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