Have you ever built a dashboard nobody opened? I have. I've also done the other side of it — begged for a dashboard, then never opened it. There's a particular kind of guilt in that. Someone spent a week wiring up the SQL, the joins, the colour-coded conditional formatting. You bookmarked it. You promised yourself you'd check it Monday morning. Then weeks went by. I came across a thread on a BI sub the other week where someone had pulled the usage logs on their team's dashboards. One manager had begged for a dashboard for months — pinged them constantly, “this is critical, I need it now.” They built it. The manager opened it twice. In four months. I felt that. Both as the builder and as the manager. The thing nobody says about dashboards is that they ask humans to pull . The dashboard sits on a server somewhere with the right numbers, perfectly correct, and the way you find out what's happening is: you go to it. You log in. You filter the date range. You click the chart. Humans do not do this.…