Artifacts | Gatlas help center

Pick the format that matches how it will be read

Dashboard: rows of charts and figures that reflow on a phone. It can group components into tabs.
Document: A4 pages, drawn on screen the way they print.
Deck: 16:9 slides, shown one at a time; the arrow keys move between them.

Inside any format, an artifact is made of components: line, bar, area and pie charts, a single big number, a table, and text. Every chart, number and table reads one published view, so an artifact cannot show a figure your views do not hold.

Ask Claude to build one

Artifacts are built in conversation, not with an editor in the dashboard. An MCP connection is how AI assistants such as Claude connect to Gatlas, and building an artifact needs a Read/write one, since it saves something; see MCP connections.

1

Describe what you want to see

Name the question, the companies and the format. For example:

Build a dashboard called "Portfolio monthly" with revenue by company for the last 12 months as a bar chart, this month's total revenue as a big number, and a table of the ten largest overdue invoices.

Turn our monthly P&L for Northwind into a four-page A4 board report with a short written summary on the first page.

2

Open it in Gatlas

Claude replies with where to find it. In the dashboard, choose Artifacts in the sidebar and open it by name.

3

Change it by asking

Ask for changes in the same way: "add a line chart of gross margin", "make it a deck", "rename it Portfolio Q3". Claude checks each change against your views before it saves, so a chart that would not work is refused rather than saved broken.

Tip

If Claude says no view holds the number you want, build the view first, then the artifact. See Views and SQL.

Every artifact stays tied to its views

The figures are as fresh as the views they read. When a view refreshes, the artifact shows the new numbers the next time it opens.
If a view is renamed, the artifact follows it. If a view is deleted or unpublished, only the components that read it show a notice; the rest of the artifact still draws.
In Gatlas, people see the artifacts for the companies they have access to.

Share it with a link, on paper or in Slack

Copy embed link, next to the artifact's title, copies a link that anyone can open without signing in. Paste it into a board portal, a wiki or an email. Admins and above see this button.

Important

Treat the embed link like a password: whoever has it can see the artifact. If it goes somewhere it should not, ask Claude to revoke the embed link, and the old link stops working at once. Ask to reissue it for a new link. Revoking and reissuing need a Read/write MCP connection without Scoped access.

To print or save a PDF, open the artifact in Chrome and print it. Documents and decks print one page or slide per sheet. Safari ignores the page size, so use Chrome.

To post it to Slack on a schedule, add an Artifact message under Scheduled messages. Each post carries an Open artifact button that opens it in Gatlas. See Notifications and reports.

Delete one by asking

Ask Claude to delete the artifact. It first tells you what will go, including the embed link, and deletes only once you confirm. There is no undo. Deleting needs a Read/write MCP connection without Scoped access.