Mid-year review season. You know the drill.
My team owed leadership a polished Q2 deck, plus every regional sales lead needed their own weekly report. Total count: about 50 reports. Same structure, different data.
The first deck I did the honest way — PowerPoint, three full days. Not because I can't use templates, but because the "raw data → insight → visual story" pipeline is brutally long. Each chart means copying numbers from Excel, fixing formatting, writing analysis. One slide averages 40 minutes. Twenty slides = two working days gone.
Then I looked at the remaining 49. That math doesn't work.
The GUI tool problem
