Will enterprises still need dashboards in the future?
For years, companies have invested heavily in data. They built dashboards, generated reports, and grew their data teams. Yet many employees still depend on technical teams just to reach the information they need. This is one of the biggest open questions in Enterprise AI today, and it’s exactly the problem that Oraion, founded in 2024 by Alexander Walsh and Derek Lowry, set out to solve.
What Oraion Does Differently
Instead of dashboards and SQL, Oraion’s agentic AI platform turns fragmented company data into a single source of truth. As a result, anyone can query it in plain language. For example, teams simply ask “What’s our churn this month?” or “Which campaign drove the most revenue?” and get trusted, real-time answers.
In practice, the platform:
- Connects 300+ data sources into one intelligent layer
- Lets you query directly from Slack and Microsoft Teams
- Generates automated reports and personalized SmartView dashboards
- Uses agents that interrogate internal and external systems to surface recommendations
- Requires no technical skills or SQL
Behind it sits a founding team with backgrounds at Apple, N26, Silicon Valley Bank, and MongoDB.
Why Enterprise AI Is Moving Beyond Dashboards
Despite being a very young startup, Oraion is becoming one of the Dublin-based names to watch in Enterprise AI. The people backing it hint at why. Its pre-seed round was led by Studio VC, with support from Enterprise Ireland and angels including operators from Indeed, Wayflyer, YouTube, and OpenAI.
So why does this matter? Because the biggest promise of agentic AI isn’t just generating information. Instead, it’s democratizing access to it. Over the coming years, the biggest shift in enterprise software may not happen on screens at all, but in conversational interfaces. In other words, dashboards become conversations, reports become dialogue, and searches become answers.
Ultimately, Oraion’s story points to a simple idea: the data analyst of the future might be everyone, as long as they can ask the right question.
Following Dublin’s AI Ecosystem
At AI Dubliners, we’ll keep following the new generation of agentic AI startups coming out of Dublin. After all, the strongest signals of how Enterprise AI will take shape in Europe often emerge in these early-stage companies.
