PowerBI Builder
Inspiration
Creating professional Power BI dashboards is a time-consuming process that usually requires expertise in data modeling, DAX, visualization design, and business analysis. I wanted to build an AI system that could automate this workflow while still producing explainable and reliable results.
What it does
PowerBI Builder is an AI-powered multi-agent system that converts Excel, CSV, or JSON datasets together with natural language instructions into complete Power BI (.pbip) projects.
The generated project includes:
- Semantic models
- Relationships
- DAX measures
- Dashboard layouts
- Business insights
- Documentation
- Explainability logs
Instead of generating a single solution, the system explores multiple candidates, evaluates them, selects the best one, validates the result, and produces a deployable Power BI project.
How I built it
The project combines Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK) with a deterministic multi-agent generation engine.
Specialized agents collaborate throughout the pipeline, including:
- Planner Agent
- BI Reasoning Agent
- Data Analyzer Agent
- Data Cleaner Agent
- Schema Agent
- Relationship Agent
- DAX Agent
- Visual Planner Agent
- Report Agent
- Validator Agent
- Judge Layer
Google ADK manages agent orchestration, tool execution, and user interaction, while the deterministic engine ensures reproducible and explainable outputs.
Challenges I ran into
One of the biggest challenges was balancing AI flexibility with deterministic and reproducible results.
Other challenges included:
- Building a modular multi-agent architecture
- Designing candidate-based reasoning
- Validating generated semantic models
- Producing consistent DAX measures
- Coordinating communication between multiple agents
- Keeping the generated Power BI project reliable and explainable
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
- Built an end-to-end AI system for Power BI generation
- Implemented multi-agent orchestration using Google ADK
- Added candidate-based decision making
- Implemented explainable AI through decision logs
- Generated complete PBIP projects automatically
- Created an extensible architecture for future editing and optimization
What I learned
This project reinforced how effective agentic systems become when reasoning is combined with deterministic engineering.
I also gained practical experience designing scalable multi-agent workflows, validation pipelines, explainability mechanisms, and AI-assisted BI automation.
What's next for PowerBI Builder
Future work includes:
- Direct PBIX editing
- Power BI REST API integration
- Live database connectivity
- Incremental dashboard editing
- Interactive dashboard refinement through conversation
- Support for additional BI platforms
- Smarter business reasoning and planning
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