# Automations — Reporting That Runs Without You

> Schedule a question, or fire one the moment a number moves. 17 building blocks turn the answer into an email, a spreadsheet or a webhook, with nobody running it.

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Set a question to run on Monday morning, or the moment a number crosses a line. The answer arrives already written up, as an email, a deck or a spreadsheet.

## The recurring report is a job nobody applied for

### Someone rebuilds it every Monday

The same pull, the same paste, the same formatting, by a person who was hired to do something else.

### The spike is found in the review

Nobody watches every metric daily, so a bad week gets discovered three weeks later.

### The report lands where nobody looks

Insight that arrives in a tool people don't open is the same as no insight.

## Set it once. It keeps running.

### Run it on a clock, or on a change

A schedule covers the reports you already know you need. An alert covers the ones you don't: it watches a query and fires the moment the result crosses your line — then the rest of the chain investigates and writes it up before anyone has opened a tab.

- Daily, weekly, monthly or a precise time
- Alerts that fire on the change, not the check
- Paused and edited without rebuilding

### More than one step

Chain the work: query the database, ask an analyst about the result, summarise it, split on a condition, loop over every row, build the file. 17 blocks, joined in the order you want.

- 17 building blocks
- Conditions and loops
- Exports to 3 file formats, and a webhook out

### Every run leaves a record

Each run is listed with what triggered it, when it started and whether it finished, and the result it produced is one click away. When a step fails, the log says which step and why.

- Every run timestamped, with its status
- The output of a run kept alongside it
- A failure names the step, not the chain

## What runs on its own

| Figure | What it measures |
| --- | --- |
| 17 Building blocks | Queries, analysts, conditions, loops, exports and sends. |
| 3 File formats it hands you | PDF, PowerPoint and Excel, built from the run itself. |
| 0 People running it on Monday | Once it is set, the report writes and sends itself. |

## FAQ

### What can I automate?

Anything you can ask an analyst, plus the steps around it: run a query, summarise the result, branch on a condition, loop over rows, build a file, send it.

### How do alerts work?

An alert watches a query on an interval and compares each result to the last. It fires when the answer changes, so a quiet week stays quiet.

### Where do results go?

Email, or a webhook into whatever else you run. An automation can attach a PDF, a PowerPoint or an Excel file built from the same run.

### Do I have to draw a workflow?

Only if you want to. A single scheduled question is one block. Conditions, loops and multi-step chains are there when the job gets bigger.

### What happens if a step fails?

The run stops at the failing step and records where and why, so you fix that step instead of re-reading the whole chain.

## The other surfaces

- [Ask Analysts](https://supaboard.ai/product/ask-analysts): Type a question the way you'd say it out loud. You get back the chart, the numbers and the query that produced them, so you can check the answer before you act on it.
- [Datasites](https://supaboard.ai/product/datasites): Describe the site you want. Supaboard builds it from your live data, styles it to your brand and puts it on a link you can send the same afternoon.
- [Dashboards](https://supaboard.ai/product/dashboards): Say what you want to track. Supaboard picks the charts, wires them to your data and hands back a board you can filter, embed and ask questions of.
- [Query Builder](https://supaboard.ai/product/query-builder): A proper editor over every source you have connected, with autocomplete that has read your schema and a check that runs before your query does.
- [Agents](https://supaboard.ai/product/agents): Each agent carries a confidence score, an evaluation suite it has to keep passing, and 7 tuning surfaces — identity, knowledge, memory, rules, tables, verified queries and skills — under your control.

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