The Hidden Cost of Manual Reporting (and How to Fix It with AI)
- Grant Grigorian
- Sep 2
- 3 min read
Some of your highest-paid employees are spending hours every week doing digital busy work with data: tracking down reports/dashboards, is this the right one? Where is my bookmark?
They are copy/pasting data from their browser. They are navigating tabs in massive Excel docs.
And slides, endless slides with data, charts, colors all mashed together with human clicks.
This is hours and hours of manual busywork: every single week.
It may feel like work, but here’s the thing: AI can already do most of this.
Is it perfect? No. But it can get you 80% of the way in just seconds.
We believe that AI should do the boring routine work letting people focus on what people do best.
That’s why we built Mogi to do the grunt work:
Gather the right data
Write the first draft of the update
Build the first draft of the slides
Send it to the right people on the team at the right time.
Then your team of strategic humans step in, spend 10 minutes to finish the remaining 20% that can’t be done with AI today.
No more death-by-dashboards. No more late-night deck building.
The ROI is clear: All that dashboard clicking, data downloading, and chart formatting is costing your company thousands and the costs are adding up week after week.
And that’s the best case scenario for teams that HAVE decent dashboards, most of you don’t even have those and are running your own reports and calculations 😱!
We can do better.
Mogi is your AI-powered analyst. It connects to your existing dashboards and data sources and automates the job of reviewing, interpreting, and communicating what’s happening in your business before you even ask.
Instead of waiting for people to go looking for insights, Mogi brings the insights to them. It’s about proactive data communication.
What Does Mogi Automate?
Here’s how teams use Mogi today:
🧑💼 1. Weekly Team Meeting Slides
Mogi assembles your KPIs, adds trend commentary, and builds the actual slides so you’re ready for Monday’s meeting: no late Sunday scramble.
📉 2. Pipeline Performance Updates
Is pipeline on track? Which segments are underperforming? Mogi tracks the metrics and sends updates when things dip below target even before you ask.
📬 3. Marketing & Campaign Reporting
Marketing leaders get a weekly digest of campaign and channel performance, helping them spot trends, not just clicks.
👀 4. Post-Mortems & Missed Targets
Mogi flags which metric missed its goal, what contributed, and suggests where to investigate next. It’s like having a smart intern who never sleeps.
🔔 5. Team Nudges & Alerts
Mogi sends contextual nudges and reports via Slack, email, or slide decks whichever format suits your team’s rhythm.

Why It Matters
Mogi doesn’t just pull data it interprets it.
It frees up operators from grunt work, allowing them to:
Spend less time copy-pasting charts
Stop writing the same commentary every week
Focus on strategy, planning, and solving problems
And for business users, it means:
Less time figuring out what’s happening
More time making decisions and taking action
How It Works: From Dashboards to Scalable Insight Delivery
Making this shift doesn’t happen by magic. It’s a process that starts with your ops or analytics team and ends with your entire company running smarter, not harder.
Here’s how teams are putting Mogi to work:
Prep the Data and Business Context Your ops or analytics team works with Mogi to identify and prepare the key data sources. Together, we define what matters: the metrics, the structure, and the meaning behind the numbers.
Test the Output We validate Mogi’s ability to gather and interpret the data. Does it answer the right questions? Does it explain the changes in performance? This is your first look at AI doing the grunt work.
Refine the Analysis As the team reviews the results, we iterate. We clarify logic, tweak thresholds, and enhance narrative quality until the insights are truly useful and trust-worthy.
Automate the Distribution Once the output meets expectations, your team defines a schedule (weekly, monthly, before key meetings) and assigns audiences: who gets what, when, and where (email, Slack, slides, etc.).
Maintain and Evolve Your ops team shifts from being report fetchers to AI trainers. As business needs evolve, they adjust the automations, add new data, and teach Mogi new types of analysis.
This is what modern data operations looks like:
Your team provides structured data and context.
Mogi delivers timely, proactive insights at scale.
Dashboards aren’t going away but the burden of turning dashboards into action no longer falls entirely on your team.

🚀 What’s Next?
AI isn’t just about bots and chat — it’s about making your team faster, smarter, and more informed.
Mogi is here to do the work behind the work, so your people can focus on what matters most.


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