From Boring Dashboards to Executive Podcasts

What if your dashboard could just... tell you what's going on?

Project: AI-Powered Dashboard Podcast Generator

Built a proof-of-concept that automatically converts business dashboard data into audio podcasts. The system uses Azure Logic Apps to pull dashboard metrics from GitHub, process them through AI to generate natural language summaries, and convert those summaries to speech—creating a 2-minute podcast stored in Azure Blob Storage. What if they could trigger ad hoc podcasts while on the bus or get one on a certain day. (I have a full write up for this which I'll post to Medium at some point)

The Problem: Decision-makers monitoring complex processes (like app modernizations) struggle to stay informed when they're not in the weeds daily. Dashboards have all the data, but checking them requires time and context that busy managers don't always have.

The Solution: Automated podcast updates that can be triggered on a schedule (like Friday afternoons) or on-demand, giving stakeholders a lightweight way to stay informed without logging into dashboards. 

Tech Stack: Azure Logic Apps, AI Foundry, GitHub, Azure Blob Storage, VS Code with Copilot

Time Investment: ~8 hours over Thanksgiving weekend

Key Takeaway: As a designer with low-to-mid coding skills, AI tools made this project possible—though navigating new product versions and relying heavily on AI guidance presented unique challenges. This felt like a real development process, and it's exciting to see what's now achievable without deep coding expertise. I also really wanted to time box this so I could get to a second helping of pie - so some of the features that required Auth or permissions that I didn't have for connections I changed to be easier, which was fine. This was really just an experiment to do something and stretch my mind a bit.