Dashboards, on data you already have
Build charts, grids, kanban boards and dashboards on the same data model your API already runs on, with no second database to keep in sync.
The same task, three ways
Every task works three ways, and all of them change the same project. Here's one: a bar chart of revenue by month, built from your orders.
The Anythink dashboard
Design the chart on screen and drop it onto a dashboard.
The Anythink CLI
A chart is a saved configuration, so you can create it from a script.
$ anythink fetch /charts --method POST --body \'{"name":"Revenue by month","dataSource":"entity","chartType":"column","entityName":"orders","xField":"created_at","xInterval":"month","yField":"total","yAgg":"sum"}'- ✓Chart Revenue by month saved
- ✓Sums orders.total for each month
- ✓Pick it from Add widget → Chart on any dashboard
Claude, through MCP
Describe the chart. It saves the configuration and tells you where to find it.
you › “Make a bar chart of revenue by month from the orders entity, summing the total field.”
- ✓Chart configuration created on orders
- ✓Bar chart: sum of total, grouped by month
- ✓Saved as Revenue by month
- ✓Ready to add from Add widget → Chart
Dashboards, compared
| Capability | Anythink | Directus | Supabase |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charts on your dataDirectus: Insights dashboards. Supabase: charts appear in the AI assistant chat, not as a standalone builder. | Built in | Built in | Add-on, extension or DIY recipe |
| Cross-entity joined viewsAnythink: materialised views, including payments/subscriptions as a join source. | Built in | Not confirmed | Not available |
| Kanban / map / calendar views | Built in | Not confirmed | Not available |
| Branding (colours, radius, logo) | Built in | Built in | Not available |
● Built in◐ Add-on, extension or DIY recipe– Not available? Not confirmed
Sourced from each vendor's own docs as of 28 September 2026. Anythink's branding covers colours, corner radius, logos and menus.
Internal dashboards on your own data
Charts, cross-entity grids and five ways to view your data, styled with your own colours and logo.
Five chart types, per entity
Bar, pie, line, funnel and cohort charts, each built on a single entity with a field, an aggregation, a timeframe preset and a compare-to-prior-period option.
Materialised views across entities
A materialised view joins another entity, or your payments and subscriptions data, in as columns, with a project-wide TOTAL row and server-side pagination, for the cross-entity grid a single chart can't show.
Five views on every entity
Switch any entity between Grid, Kanban, Map, Calendar and Charts without building a separate screen. Kanban groups records by a status field with drag-and-drop; Map plots a geo field.
Dashboards you assemble from widgets
Combine charts and materialised views into a dashboard, with a live preview as you build it. Each dashboard has its own data endpoint, scoped by the same permissions as the rest of your API.
Your colours, radius and logo
Set a primary colour, grey palette and corner radius, and add your project's logo, so the Anythink dashboard reads as part of your product, not a generic admin panel.
Menus you configure
Decide which entities, dashboards and pages show in the navigation, and in what order, instead of shipping every entity to every role by default.
In practice
A chart, a materialised view, a branded dashboard
GET https://api.my.anythink.cloud/org/{org_id}/materialised-views/{id}/data?page=1&page_size=25
What you can build
A revenue dashboard across payments and orders
A materialised view joins your orders entity with subscriptions data, so finance can see revenue per plan without a separate BI pipeline or a hand-written join.
A support queue on Kanban
Switch your tickets entity to Kanban, grouped by status. Agents drag a ticket from Open to In progress to Resolved, and the same records still power your API and workflows.
A branded ops panel for an agency's client
Set the client's colours, logo and corner radius, and configure the menu to show only the entities and dashboards that client's team should see.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I build internal dashboards on my own data without Retool?
Yes. Charts, materialised views and dashboards run on the same entities your API already serves. There's no separate database connection to configure and no second place for the schema to drift.
Can a chart join data across entities?
Yes, with a materialised view. It joins another entity, or your payments and subscriptions data, in as columns, with a project-wide TOTAL row. Individual bar, pie, line, funnel and cohort charts each focus on one entity.
What views can I switch an entity between?
Grid, Kanban, Map, Calendar and Charts, all on the same records. Kanban groups by a status field with drag-and-drop; Map plots a geo field; Calendar lays records out by a date field.
Can I white-label the dashboard for my own brand?
Yes. Set your primary colour, grey palette, corner radius, logo and menu structure, so the Anythink dashboard looks like part of your product. System email can come from your own verified domain too.
Still have questions?
Get in TouchMore in the same project
Every feature reads from the same data model, so each one you add works with the rest.
Ways to build with it
The dashboard, the CLI, MCP and the SDK, plus guides for moving from other platforms.
Who it's for
How founders, agencies and enterprise teams use Anythink.
Documentation
Guides and reference at docs.anythink.cloud.