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How to build a marketing dashboard with AI

To build a marketing dashboard with AI in Blackbox (blackbox.plus), click + next to Dashboards in the left menu, pick Blank (questions) and click Create. Type a question in plain words, such as Which posts got the most saves and shares?, and Blackbox answers it from your brand’s connected ad and social accounts as a draft chart. Change its chart or size if you like, then click Keep to save it to the dashboard. Add a standard widget adds a ready-made number, trend, top posts or campaign table without asking a question at all. Export PDF and Export PowerPoint download a title slide and one slide per kept widget, ready to send. Share gives a read-only link that anyone can open without signing in, showing each widget as it was last saved, and Revoke Link turns it off. Each person can ask 50 questions a day; standard widgets and changing the date range don’t count.

You'll need
Time
About 5 minutes 10 steps Updated
You'll end with
A dashboard of your own questions, sent as a PDF or slides, or shared as a read-only link
Do it in Blackbox Open Dashboards, after you sign in
Example
A question asked in plain words, answered from the brand’s posts and kept

How to build a marketing dashboard with AI in Blackbox

  1. Step 1:Start a dashboard

    In the left menu, click + next to Dashboards.

    You'll see: The New dashboard window, with the Brand it is for.

    Open this in Blackbox

  2. Step 2:Pick a blank dashboard

    Click Blank (questions), then click Create.

    You'll see: Your new dashboard, with a box to ask a question.

  3. Step 3:Ask a question

    Type a question in plain words, such as “Which posts got the most saves and shares?”, and press Enter.

    You'll see: A Draft card that fills in with the answer as a chart.

  4. Step 4:Change how it looks

    On the draft, pick a chart such as Bar or Table, and a size: S, M or L.

    You'll see: The draft redrawn each time you pick, still marked Draft.

  5. Step 5:Keep it

    Click Keep.

    You'll see: The widget saved on the dashboard, with Export PDF, Export PowerPoint and Share above it.

  6. Step 6:Add a standard widget

    Click Add a standard widget, pick one such as Top posts, and click Add draft.

    You'll see: A new draft straight from your numbers, to keep the same way.

  7. Step 7:Download it

    Click Export PDF or Export PowerPoint.

    You'll see: A file with a title slide, then one slide per widget.

  8. Step 8:Share a read-only link

    Click Share, then Copy. Once a link exists, the button reads Share Link.

    You'll see: Anyone with this link can view this dashboard (read-only).

  9. Step 9:Check what they see

    Open the link in a private window.

    You'll see: The title and widgets, with Shared dashboard · Read-only view at the bottom.

  10. Step 10:Turn the link off

    Click Share Link, then Revoke Link.

    You'll see: Share on the button again, and the old link opens Dashboard Unavailable.

Good to know

  • Questions only read the brand the dashboard is for: its connected ad and social accounts.
  • Each person can ask 50 questions a day. Standard widgets, keeping a draft and changing the date range don’t count.
  • Kept widgets follow the dashboard’s date range, Last 30 days to start. Change it above the widgets.
  • Exports are made in your browser from the kept widgets; drafts are left out.
  • A share link works for a year for anyone who has it. Anyone who can open the dashboard can share it or revoke the link.
  • Only an admin or the person who made a dashboard can delete it.
  • Ads report, in the same New dashboard window, is a ready-made report of spend and results with no questions to ask.

If something doesn't work

The draft shows Try asking instead of a chart

Blackbox couldn’t answer that from your data. Click the suggested question, or rewrite yours in the box below it and click Ask.

I don’t see Export PDF or Share

They appear once the dashboard has a kept widget. Click Keep on a draft first.

It says I’ve reached today’s question limit

You’ve asked 50 questions today. Kept widgets still update when you change the date range, and new questions open again tomorrow.

The + next to Dashboards opens the plans page

Dashboards need an active plan. Start one, or start it again — see How to change or cancel your Blackbox subscription.

The shared link says Dashboard Unavailable

The link was revoked or is over a year old. Open the dashboard, click Share for a new link and send that one.

I can’t delete a dashboard

Only an admin or the person who made it can. Point at its name in the left menu, click the bin, then Delete.

Stuck at any step? Send us a message and we'll do it with you on a call. All of Level 5: Grow