How AI Helps Business Intelligence Analysts
Analysts spend much of their time writing up the same recurring reports and answering ad-hoc data questions. 12² builds an assistant connected read-only to the data warehouse or BI tool, with a governed metrics glossary, report templates and an analyst review step.
BI Report Drafting Assistant · From $4,500 + $349/mo, by team size · proposed estimate · It says it is an automated assistant whenever it talks to someone directly, and your team reviews what it drafts before it goes out.
Ai for business intelligence analysts: the short answer.
AI can help a business intelligence analyst draft commentary for recurring dashboards, write and explain SQL for ad-hoc questions, summarize metric changes and document data definitions. In a randomized study of professional writing tasks, ChatGPT cut time about 40% and raised quality. The analyst checks every query and number before sharing.
Sources
- RCT: ChatGPT cut professional writing task time 40%, quality +18%; participants were marketers, grant writers, consultants, data analysts, HR pros, managers (Noy & Zhang, Science 2023)news.mit.edu
Where the hours go now.
Drafting narrative commentary for recurring dashboards
Analysts spend much of their time writing up the same recurring reports and answering ad-hoc data questions.
Writing and explaining SQL for ad-hoc questions, checked by the analyst
Rebuilt from scratch each time, usually at the end of the day.
Metric changes and likely drivers
Hours go to reading and re-reading before the real work starts.
What it handles, and what it never does.
What it handles
- Drafting narrative commentary for recurring dashboardsIt drafts narrative commentary for recurring dashboards.
- Writing and explaining SQL for ad-hoc questions, checked by the analystIt writes and explains SQL for ad-hoc questions, checked by the analyst.
- Metric changes and likely driversIt summarizes metric changes and likely drivers.
- Documenting data definitionsIt documents data definitions.
- Hand-off to your teamAnything that needs a person goes to the right person, with the details attached.
What it never does
- Make up a price or a factIt works only from the documents, records and price lists you give it. Anything it can't find goes to your team.
- Promise a resultQuestions about outcomes go to the person who does the work.
- Pretend to be a personIt says it is an automated assistant whenever it talks to someone directly.
- Send anything on its ownDrafts wait for your team's approval before anything goes out.
Built and tested on your own work.
Before handoff, we run your build on your own real examples and fix anything that misses.
- Tested on your own workBefore handoff, we run your build on your own real examples and fix anything that misses.
- Retainer, then balance on deliveryRetainer up front. Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass.
- Fixed price, scope and timelineAll three in writing before work starts. The timeline is set in your quote.
- What 12² buildsAn assistant connected read-only to the data warehouse or BI tool, with a governed metrics glossary, report templates and an analyst review step.
- How it connectsWe confirm how it connects to the tools you already use on the first call and write it into your quote.
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From $4,500 + $349/moSetup + monthly, by size. The monthly fee covers monitoring, fixes and re-tests for your package as your templates, documents and staff change. AI and software usage is billed at cost. Proposed starting estimates by team size, not fixed prices; the final price is in a written quote.
- Small: Small firm (1-10 staff)From $4,500 + $349/mo. The core build for 1-10 staff: an assistant connected read-only to the data warehouse or BI tool, with a governed metrics glossary, report templates and an analyst review step. Proposed estimate. Small tier is about the size of a 12squared.ai Proof build; monthly covers hosting, monitoring and fixes.
- Mid-size: Mid firm (11-50 staff)From $9,500 + $750/mo. Everything in Small firm, for more users, inboxes and calendars, with hand-off rules set for each role. Proposed estimate. Mid tier is about the size of a Core build (more users, more integrations).
- Enterprise: Large firm / enterprise (50+ staff)From $25,000, custom quote. Everything in Mid firm, across locations or departments, with system integrations and a security review scoped in your custom quote. Proposed estimate. Starts near the Product build range; scope, integrations and security review set the final number. No cap.
- Retainer up front Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass. Scope, price and timeline are agreed in writing before work starts.
- You own itThe accounts, scripts, templates and data sit in your name. You can leave at any time.
- Compliance and dataRead-only data access; customer data handling per existing NDAs and SOC 2 asks where relevant.
Straight answers.
Can it access our live database?
Read-only, through a scoped account you control, and only the tables we agree on.
How does payment work?
Retainer up front. Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass.
How long does it take?
Timelines are set per project in the quote, after we see your systems and volume.
Are these prices final?
No. They are proposed starting estimates. You get a written custom quote after a short scoping call.
Tell us how you handle metric changes and likely drivers now.
A few lines is enough. If it's a fit we'll say so, and if it isn't we'll tell you why.
- A real replyWritten for you by 12², within one business day. Never an autoresponder.
- A free 20-minute callHow the work runs now, what gets missed, and what your team needs from it.
- A fixed quoteYour size, scope, date and price in writing before any work starts.
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