PowerBI AI Lens

PowerBI AI Lens is an AI chat bot tool. AI Lens is a Power BI custom visual that adds an OpenAI powered chat panel to reports, letting viewers ask questions in plain language and receive answers from connected data sources, with brand customization and local-only session memory.

AI Lens is a custom visual for Microsoft Power BI that puts an OpenAI powered chat interface directly inside your reports. Instead of building extra report pages or writing DAX for every follow-up question, viewers type a query in plain language and the visual returns an answer drawn from the dataset connected to the report. The homepage pitches it as the first AI visual built for Power BI, and Microsoft's own Power BI account has publicly referenced it. The tool is aimed at report authors and the clients they serve. Consultants and analysts can hand a dashboard to business users who want to interrogate the numbers without learning the data model. Because the visual sits inside the report, responses stay in the same workspace as the charts and tables, which keeps context intact. The homepage positions the product around turning client questions into data-driven insights, so the natural audience is agencies and internal analytics teams presenting to non-technical stakeholders. In practice the workflow follows the standard Power BI custom visual path: download the visual, add it to a report, and connect it to permitted data sources. The homepage stresses granular access controls so authors can decide which sources the visual can reach, and it says the visual reads live data sources so answers reflect current values. Aesthetics can be adjusted to match a brand. On privacy, the homepage states that data is neither stored, logged, sold nor monitored, that calls go through OpenAI's API under the policy that API data is not used for model training, and that session memory stays local inside Power BI once a session ends. Alternatives include building your own chat layer against the OpenAI API, using Power BI's native Q&A feature, or adding a general assistant outside the dashboard. AI Lens competes on being a drop-in visual rather than a development project, though buyers should note that the homepage does not publish pricing or plan details.