Bold BI MCP Server

Your AI assistant, connected to your BI environment.

Ask Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, or VS Code anything about your dashboards, data sources, users, and permissions — and get a real answer from your live Bold BI site. No admin console. No manual lookups.

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Capabilities

What your AI assistant can do with Bold BI

AI Smart Actions are governed MCP operations across 53 tools spanning dashboards, datasources, users, groups, permissions, and schedules — discovering, inspecting, querying, exporting, and monitoring Bold BI content, never creating, editing, or deleting it.

for admins, analysts, support teams

Find any dashboard without opening the console

Ask "list all dashboards," "show me the Finance team's favorites," or "which dashboards are public?" Your AI assistant pulls the live list straight from your Bold BI site — no navigation, no filtering, no screen switching.

  • List all dashboards, favorites, drafts, and public dashboards instantly.
  • Check widget details for any dashboard in one question.
  • View dashboard settings and deployment info.
  • Works across every dashboard on your site, not just the ones you remember.
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for admins planning data source changes

Know what breaks before you touch anything

Before rotating a credential, changing a schema, or migrating a data source — ask your assistant what depends on it. Get the full list of linked dashboards, their widgets, and who has access, in one conversation instead of twenty minutes of clicking.

  • See every dashboard linked to a specific data source.
  • Check widget-level impact before making changes
  • Review data source columns and schema.
  • Track recent activity on any data source.
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for security teams, compliance reviews

Answer "who can see what?"

No more digging through permission screens. Ask your assistant which groups can access a dashboard, which dashboards a user can see, or what permissions a group has — and get a current, accurate answer.Before rotating a credential, changing a schema, or migrating a data source — ask your assistant what depends on it. Get the full list of linked dashboards, their widgets, and who has access, in one conversation instead of twenty minutes of clicking.

  • Check dashboard permissions by user or by group.
  • List all users in a group, or all groups a user belongs to.
  • Review user and group attributes.
  • Confirm access before a security audit or compliance review.
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for governance, change management, compliance

Export dashboards and pull audit history — from the chat

Export dashboards as PDF, Excel, or image files, and export selected datasource content as Excel, CSV, or JSON.

  • Export dashboards and data sources
  • Pull dashboard access history for any time range.
  • Review data source activity logs.
  • Monitor schedules, slideshows, webhooks, and published content.
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How it works

Connect. Ask. Done.

Three steps. No SDK. No REST client code. Just your AI client, your Bold BI API key, and one endpoint.

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Step 1

Connect your AI client

Connect using a user-bound Bold BI API key and your Bold BI site URL. MCP operations run with the permissions associated with that user — no additional MCP-specific account is required.

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Step 2

Ask in plain language

"List dashboards the Finance group can see."

'What depends on this data source?"

Your assistant selects the right tools automatically.

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Step 3

Get live results, fully logged

The answer comes back from your actual Bold BI site — not a cached copy. Supported Bold BI activities are recorded according to the auditing capabilities available for your deployment.

Security

Same permissions. Same rules. Extended to AI.

Your AI assistant sees exactly what the API key allows — nothing more. No service-account shortcut that bypasses row-level security. The current external toolset does not create, edit, or delete Bold BI content. It supports retrieval, guarded querying, exports, downloads, and status operations.

  • Calls use the Bold BI credentials you configure — access follows the same permission model as that credential in the Bold BI UI.
  • 53 tools oriented around reading, inspection, querying, export, and status — not content creation or deletion.
  • Audit activity is reviewable via Dashboard Usage Insights (on-premises); cloud coverage may differ.
  • SOC 2-aligned security, HTTPS-only.
  • Works with Cloud and on-premises deployments.
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Get started

Works with the AI client you already use

Connect in minutes. No plugins to install, no new tools to learn.

Claude

Anthropic's reasoning assistant

VS Code

VS Code

AI assistant inside your IDE

Codex

Codex

Agentic coding in the terminal

ChatGPT

OpenAI's conversational assistant

GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot

AI pair programmer in your repo

Code Studio

Cloud-based AI coding workspace

See it in action

Multi-Step Admin-Console Lookups With One Guided Conversation.

A BI admin planning a credential rotation used the MCP Tool to list dashboards, confirm dependencies, check widgets, export a PDF for the change ticket, and pull the access list — one conversation, every step logged.

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For embedded analytics teams

Built for teams embedding analytics into their own product

Already embedding white-labeled Bold BI dashboards in your SaaS product? Same Bold BI MCP Server, pointed at your own team's tooling.

Audit what each tenant can see, per tenant

Trace data source dependencies before a schema change

Pull access history for a customer's security review

Runs alongside Bold BI's embedded designer and REST APIs

Bold BI AI platform

The Bold BI MCP Server is one part of Bold BI AI

All AI features are included in every plan — never billed by the prompt.

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AI Copilot

Create dashboards by describing what you need — right inside the designer.

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AI Agent

Ask questions about any dashboard and get instant, contextual answers.

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AI Assistant

One conversational space for questions, visuals, and summaries across all your data.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Any Bold BI Cloud or on-premises customer with a valid API key.

Tested with Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, GitHub Copilot, VS Code, and Code Studio. Other clients that support MCP over Streamable HTTP and custom headers are expected to work; client-specific validation is ongoing.

The 53 externally available tools are oriented around reading, inspection, querying, export, and status — not content creation or deletion.

Calls use the Bold BI credentials you configure, following that credential's existing permission model.

No — it's a configuration step, not a coding task. You need someone who can generate an API key and confirm your site's URL.

Ready to Get Started?

Start asking your BI environment questions

Connect the Bold BI MCP Server and let your AI assistant handle the governance questions your team answers by hand today. Free 30-day trial, no credit card required.