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How It Works

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│  You: "Create a 10-slide presentation about Q3 revenue trends"     │
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│  tellr Agent (LangChain)                                            │
│  ├─ Queries Genie for live data (respects Unity Catalog perms)     │
│  ├─ Analyzes patterns, generates insights                          │
│  └─ Produces HTML slides with Chart.js visualizations              │
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│  Interactive slide deck you can edit, reorder, and export          │
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Overview​

tellr is an agentic application that generates data-driven presentations from your Databricks environment:

  • Connected to your data — Queries your Genie spaces for live, governed data
  • Respects permissions — Uses Unity Catalog security out of the box
  • Conversational editing — Refine slides through natural language ("add a comparison to Q3", "make the EMEA section more prominent")
  • Prompt-only mode — Works without Genie for general-purpose slide generation

tellr is the third pillar in Databricks' AI/BI suite, completing the story alongside Genie and Dashboards: conversational analytics, conversational dashboards, and now conversational presentations.