Columns AI is a collaborative data storytelling platform that combines AI analysis with beautiful interactive visualizations and shareable narratives.
Columns AI lets users connect data, ask questions in natural language and publish interactive data stories. Its AI copilot generates SQL and chart suggestions, while the visualization layer produces refined, interactive charts that can be arranged into narrative layouts for reports and presentations. Everything lives in the cloud and shares by link.
Columns supports connections to databases and files, offers fine control over visual styling, and lets teams collaborate on stories in real time. The result sits between a BI tool and a design tool: analysis power with publication-grade output.
Columns AI blends analysis and presentation: users query data conversationally or with SQL, refine visuals with design-grade controls, and arrange results into narrative documents that update as data changes. Collaboration happens in real time, and sharing is by link or embed. The platform suits both exploration and publication — a dual capability that makes it useful for teams who analyze and communicate in the same workflow.
Columns AI has a free tier for personal use, with paid plans for teams, private data connections and advanced publishing options.
Analysts and data-driven storytellers who want exploration and polished narrative output in one tool.
Yes, individuals can start free; team and advanced data features are paid.
Columns connects to standard data sources and supports embeds; a public API is limited.
It blends BI-style querying with design-grade storytelling, unlike either pure dashboard or pure chart-design tools.
Yes — Columns connects to databases and file sources, and its AI copilot can generate SQL against your connected data.
Analysts use Columns AI to explore data with AI-generated SQL, design refined interactive visualizations and arrange them into narrative data stories for reports and presentations. Teams collaborate on shared analyses, and published stories keep stakeholders informed with visuals that look designed rather than default.
Yes — Columns AI publishes interactive data stories as shareable links and embeds, with real-time collaboration while building them.