Introducing Basedash Automations

Today we’re launching Automations — AI-powered workflows that run on your data 24/7.

Tell an automation what you want to know, pick when it should run, and it goes to work. Every Friday at 10am, summarize the week. The moment a 100+ person company signs up, ping sales. When error volume doubles, page the on-call. Each run produces a written analysis with charts and lands in Slack, email, or both.

Think of it as spinning up an army of AI analysts who never sleep, configured to monitor exactly what matters to your team.

Why we built Automations

Most of the work data teams do isn’t novel. It’s repeating the same handful of analyses over and over — the Friday roll-up, the morning ad-spend check, the quarterly board prep, the alert that fires when something breaks.

Each one is straightforward in isolation. But added up, they consume real time. And because a human has to sit down and run them, they only happen when someone remembers to look.

Automations turn those recurring analyses into background workflows. Set the question once and the AI handles it forever — pulling fresh data, doing the analysis, writing the summary, and delivering it where your team already works.

The next era of unicorn startups will be tiny teams that lean hard on agents to automate as much work as possible. Automations is our biggest step toward making that real for analytics.

How Automations work

Each automation has three pieces:

1. An instruction — written in plain English, telling the AI what to analyze. “Compare new signups to last week and flag anything unusual.” “Look at qualified leads from the last 24 hours and summarize who’s worth reaching out to first.”
2. A trigger — when the automation runs.
3. A destination — where the results go.

The AI joins data across every source you’ve connected — databases, warehouses, and 750+ SaaS tools via Fivetran — and produces a written briefing with the numbers, supporting charts, and the context to make the result actually useful.

Every run is also saved as an in-app chat. You get a complete, searchable history of every analysis your team has ever run, and you can keep digging from any of them with follow-up questions.

Three ways to trigger an automation

Scheduled. Run on a fixed cadence — daily, weekdays, weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Best for recurring reports like a weekly company update or a daily error summary.

Data change. Fire when a SQL query returns new rows. Basedash checks your query every 15 minutes against a {{ last_run_at }} variable, and when something new comes in — a new signup, a new high-value order, a new support escalation — the AI analyzes it and sends results immediately.

Manual. Run on demand, whenever you need a fresh take.

You can switch between trigger types at any time, and the same instruction works across all three.

What teams are already running

We’ve been dogfooding Automations internally for months, and a handful of customers have been running them in beta. A few patterns keep showing up:

• Weekly status update — every Friday morning, a roll-up of the metrics that matter to leadership, with the things worth paying attention to bubbled to the top
• Notable signups — when a 100+ seat company signs up, the AI summarizes the account and pings the sales channel
• Error monitoring — when error volume spikes 2× day-over-day, alert the on-call channel with a breakdown of what changed
• Daily ad spend — every morning, yesterday’s spend by channel with a flag on anything that looks off
• Customer health — every Monday, a list of accounts trending down so success can intervene early
• Sales pipeline recap — every Friday, what closed, what’s new, what’s at risk

These used to be Monday-morning slack threads, half-finished spreadsheets, or — most often — analyses that nobody got around to. Now they show up on their own.

Getting started

Automations are available today for all Basedash users.

1. Sign up for Basedash (or log in)
2. Connect your data sources
3. Open the Automations page from the sidebar
4. Start from one of 15+ templates, or describe what you want and the AI will configure the trigger, schedule, and instructions for you

For more details, check out the Automations feature page.

What’s next

Automations is the third pillar of how we think analytics should work at Basedash. With AI chat for ad-hoc questions, Insights for proactive findings the AI surfaces on its own, and Automations for the recurring workflows you want to set and forget — every kind of analysis your team needs has a home.

We’ll keep making automations smarter over time: richer triggers, more delivery channels, and tighter coordination with the rest of the platform so your AI analysts compound on each other’s work.

Try Automations today and put your data on autopilot.