# Ch 15: Dashboards: Claude Cowork live artifacts
Creator: Nate Herk (@nateherk)
Transcript of Nate Herk's 2h33m 'Build your own AI operating system' course, split into its chapters. All content and credit: Nate Herk (@nateherk), https://x.com/nateherk/status/2101656269056610682. Transcribed locally with faster-whisper; names may be misheard.

[2:24:00] Stripe information, your YouTube stuff, your ClickUp tasks. But what if you want to be able to have a visual place to see that stuff? Because, you know, once again, we now have potentially a visualization of our data or send out our data, but like our knowledge, but what if we want a visualization of our data? Well, you could go ahead and custom build all of this, but The first step I think would just be to leverage cloud artifacts and see what you can already do. So once again, I'm in the desktop app. I'm going to go to co-work, which is the middle section, and I'm going to click on live artifacts. And you can see here that I've got three different dashboards here. I've got a Fireflies dashboard, I've got a weekly commitments dashboard, and I've got a QuickBooks dashboard. So for example, I'm going to click on the QuickBooks dashboard. I'm not going to show you guys this data, obviously. But what this does is as soon as I open up this dashboard, it makes a call to QuickBooks. and it starts to pull in this data and populate it with real analytics. And so now I have this really simple place in my cloud environment where I can actually see our revenue, our expenses, our net profit, our cash on hand, I can see the trends, I can even get an AI breakdown of our runway and it's looking forward and it's doing a bit of a financial analysis. I can see all of this information right here. I could also do this for my weekly commitments. So I'm looking, right now this is pulling data from ClickUp and it's organizing it to show me tasks, completion percentage, what's at risk, who I might need to follow up with. So once again, it's just another way for me to visualize all of this data. And you can set them up with artifacts super, super quickly. You just come into cloud co-work, you would click on new artifact,

[2:25:30] and this basically just starts a new conversation with Claude. And it says, okay, hey, let's build you a dashboard. What do you wanna see? What MCP service can we connect to? What other connectors do we have access to? Let's build you a visualization. Now that is really nice, but it's not perfect. And ultimately where you might wanna go is using Claude Code to build you an actual dashboard that not only just has like, okay, your QuickBooks is this one and your ClickUp is this one, but maybe you want a dashboard to see everything. Because if you have all these connectors, wouldn't it be great to just have one dashboard for your business where you could look at all this stuff? Yeah, it would be great. But it requires a little bit more configuration because obviously you have to sync all the data, but then you have to build some sort of refresh cadence. Maybe you want every single night all of that data to refresh. maybe you want it to refresh every 25 minutes, you would have to build out that logic and you would have to build it up as a routine or you would have to put that on something like trigger.dev or modal. So there's just a little bit more of complexity. There's more moving pieces, but it's definitely doable. And so the reason why I recommend starting with artifacts is because artifacts, you can spin up in five minutes. And if you spin up an artifact and then you realize, wow, I didn't even check this all week, then why would you have went through all the effort to build your own custom dashboard. Maybe you build an artifact and you're like, wow, I actually check this every, I check this four times a day, I should probably build my own custom one. Then you know. So another one of Nate's mindset shifts is POC. What does POC mean? Proof of concept.