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Now available on Chrome

One click.
Any page.
Explained.

VizBuddy reads any dashboard, chart, or webpage and gives you an instant analyst-level summary. One click. No elaborate prompting. No guesswork.

★★★★★ 5.0 on the Chrome Web Store
No account required
Your screen content is never stored or transmitted

Three ways to understand anything.

Analyze Screen

Point it at any dashboard, chart, or data visualization. VizBuddy captures what's on screen and returns a structured analyst brief in seconds.

Best for
Power BI · Tableau · Google Analytics · GA4 · any visual
Read This Page

Any article, report, research paper, or annual report. VizBuddy extracts the content and delivers an analyst interpretation — with section references so you know exactly where every insight came from.

Best for
Research papers · industry reports · news articles · publications
TL;DR

Just need the quick version? TL;DR compresses any page into 3–5 plain sentences. No analysis, no frills — just the point.

Best for
Blog posts · news articles · documentation · anything you're skimming

VizBuddy shows up
where your day already takes you.

8:47 AM

You open six tabs before your first coffee.

Industry newsletters, analyst reports, that article someone shared in Slack last night. You want to be across all of it. You don't have time to read all of it.

TL;DR — the gist, in seconds
Big Tech's Q1 earnings beat expectations, but cloud growth is quietly slowing

Revenue beats across Microsoft, Google, and Amazon masked a third consecutive quarter of decelerating cloud growth. Consumer AI spending is rising but enterprise adoption remains uneven. Analysts are watching margin compression closely as infrastructure costs climb heading into Q2.

SOURCE reuters.com/technology/big-tech-q1...
2:15 PM

The dashboard goes up. The room goes quiet.

Everyone can see the numbers. Not everyone knows what they mean. You have about ten seconds before someone looks at you.

Analyze Screen — one click, instant brief
Revenue hit $2.4M this quarter — a solid beat, but churn at 4.2% and slipping new customer growth tell a different story.

The 12% revenue gain is real, but it masks structural pressure: new customers dropped 3% while churn ticked up 0.8 points. West carries 38% of volume — meaningful concentration risk if that region softens.

Retention has trended below the revenue line for three consecutive months. If this gap widens into Q2, the growth story reverses.
● Clear
Source app.powerbi.com/dashboard/sales-q1...
6:40 PM

You need to cite a source. The source is 40 pages.

You're not reading 40 pages tonight. But you need to understand it well enough to use it. VizBuddy reads the full page and returns a structured summary — the key points, what to watch for, and the sections worth noting.

Read This Page — structured summary of the full page, with section references
📄
Remote work has permanently shifted office demand — vacancy rates won't recover to pre-2020 levels.

Hybrid work has structurally reduced office demand by 15–20% in major metros. Downtown vacancy has climbed to historic highs while suburban markets show uneven recovery. Investors are repricing assets downward through 2027 as lease renewals reflect new utilization norms [ref].

Projections assume current hybrid policies persist — a significant caveat, as several major employers have mandated full returns in 2026.
● Partial
Source mckinsey.com/insights/real-estate-outlook...

One more click.

Understanding it was step one.

Because information is meant to be communicated. "Compose This" turns any VizBuddy analysis into a ready-to-send message — in the tone your audience actually needs.

🔬
Technical
For fellow analysts and data professionals.
💼
Executive
Business implications. No jargon. Three sentences.
💬
Plain English
Conversational and clear for any audience.
Slack
Short, scannable, ready to paste.

Composed for: Executive

Q1 closed at $2.4M revenue, up 12% quarter-over-quarter, driven primarily by the West region. The headline risk is a churn rate increase of 0.8 points to 4.2% — if this trend continues into Q2, it will offset the revenue gains. New customer acquisition also dipped 3%, which warrants attention before next quarter's review.

"I don't need this.
I can just paste a screenshot
into ChatGPT."

Yeah, I did that too. For months. Here's what that actually looks like.

The ChatGPT workflow
  1. Take a screenshot you'll forget to delete later
  2. Open a new tab
  3. Navigate to ChatGPT
  4. Upload the image
  5. Type a prompt
  6. Wait for the response
  7. Parse unstructured output
  8. Realize the prompt was off, try again
  9. Copy what you actually needed
  10. Now figure out how to explain it to someone else
Too many steps. Every single time.
vs
The VizBuddy workflow
  1. Click.
That's the list.

Start free.
Upgrade when ready.

No credit card required to get started. No tricks.

Free
$0
Everything you need to get started and see what VizBuddy can do.
  • 5 analyses per day
  • 2 Compose This per day
  • Session history — resets daily
Add to Chrome — Free
Pro — Coming Soon
$8/month
Founding members who join the waitlist today lock in $8/month for as long as they stay subscribed.
  • 25 analyses per day
  • Unlimited Compose This
  • 30 days persistent history
  • Priority support

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VizBuddy

VizBuddy was built by Dmitri, a guy in tech who's worn a lot of hats, and the person behind PlotStack, a newsletter for data and analytics professionals.

"I embrace AI as a tool, but when I needed a quick explanation of what I was looking at on screen, there wasn't a great solution for that. Screenshotting and sharing with an AI assistant was too many steps and too much interruption, so I built the thing I wished existed."

Common questions

If you can see it in Chrome, VizBuddy can read even more than dashboards — Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Google Analytics, Metabase, or any webpage with charts and tables. If data is on your screen, one click gets you an analysis.
VizBuddy never stores or transmits your screen content beyond the single AI call needed to generate your analysis. Nothing is logged, saved to a server, or used to train any model. What's on your screen stays between you and the analysis.
No. Install the extension and start using it immediately — no sign-up, no credit card, no onboarding flow. The free tier gives you 5 analyses per day right out of the box.
The short answer: one click vs ten steps, every single time. Beyond the friction, VizBuddy always returns the same structured format — Headline, Summary, Watch Out For, Confidence — so you get consistent analyst-quality output without knowing how to prompt for it. ChatGPT gives you whatever comes back. VizBuddy gives you a brief.
After VizBuddy analyzes a dashboard, Compose This turns that analysis into a ready-to-send message in the tone you choose — Technical, Executive, Plain English, or Slack. One more click and you have something you can paste directly into an email, a report, or a team channel.
Chrome only for now. If you're on a browser that isn't Chrome, the best thing to do is join my mailing list — that's where updates will land first.
It depends on which action you used. Analyze Screen captures what's visually on your screen, so it works on virtually any page. Read This Page and TL;DR need to read the page content directly — and some platforms restrict that. This includes Chrome's own internal pages, the Chrome Web Store, certain enterprise tools, and sites with strict security policies. It's a platform-level restriction, not a VizBuddy limitation. We're always expanding what's possible, so check the changelog for the latest.