AI assistants and the report you send every month

Our position

A good place to think is not yet a recurring report

An AI assistant is a good place to think, and many now connect to your data, answer questions and build dashboards. A report you send every cycle asks for more: data rules for each reader, including people outside your company; a designed, paginated report in your brand; words checked against the data; and delivery to every reader on a schedule. BI tools are built for analysts to explore; Rahoto gives everyone else the answer and the report, on the data you already trust. Slides look right once and need rebuilding every cycle.

This is Rahoto’s position, not a survey result or a quotation. AI assistants differ and change quickly; the point is what a recurring report needs.

Side by side

Four things a recurring report needs

Each row is one thing a report you send every cycle has to do, set against the kind of tool people reach for.

Rahoto’s AI

AI that starts from your data, not a blank box

• The same models, used through Rahoto

  Rahoto drafts with models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, or a model you bring, so you use them through Rahoto rather than instead of it.

• Your context, not a blank chat box

  Rahoto’s AI starts from your dataset, your report and your brand kit, not a blank chat box.

• Every figure traced

  In a draft, every figure must come from a query Rahoto ran on your data. A page that cites anything else goes back to be redrawn.

• Words checked against numbers

  Before each scheduled issue, Rahoto checks the text against the fresh data. By default, if something no longer matches, the run waits for your review.

• Your data rules travel with it

  Set who sees which rows and columns once. The rule holds in analysis, in the editor, in reader questions and in what gets delivered. A report goes out with the publisher’s access, never more.

• Identifiers stand in

  Names and identifiers are swapped for stand-ins before a request leaves, and swapped back when the answer returns.

• Previewed, then editable

  AI changes in the editor are shown before you keep them, and afterwards they’re ordinary, editable parts of the page.

• A first draft in your design system

  Describe the report and Rahoto drafts it in your design system for you to edit.

• Bring your own model

  On Business and Enterprise, route the AI tasks you choose to your own OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible endpoint.

Analysis in Rahoto · Reports that run themselves · Rahoto and AI dashboards, side by side · How Rahoto compares to dashboards, BI tools and slides

Fair use

When an AI assistant is the right tool

• Thinking out loud

  Working out what to ask of your data, exploring it on screen, or drafting wording by hand is what an AI assistant is for.

• A one-off

  With no recurring cadence and no readers who need their own access rules, an AI assistant is simpler.

Limits

What Rahoto does not claim

• No accuracy guarantee. The text check compares words with the data and holds a run for review; it does not prove a statement true, and web-link-only runs skip the narrative refresh.
• A first draft of a whole report needs a configured cloud AI provider. The page makes no claim about how long a draft takes.
• Bring your own model is one endpoint per organisation, on Business and Enterprise.
• Rules that give each reader their own rows apply on the web link; a report under them is shared as a link, not as files. Files can still go out per recipient, each with that recipient’s own slice of the data.
• Rules set by your data owners hold everywhere only when their author governs the source; otherwise a rule covers its own report.