Dummy BI
Free Power BI Automation Tool

Stop doing manually what a tool should do for you.

Switching a Power BI datasource used to mean hours of editing DAX, model files, and visuals by hand. Dummy BI Automatedoes it in minutes with a guided wizard — plus documentation, health checks, and DevOps diffs. All local, all free.

Dummy BI Automate — datasource switching wizard walkthrough
6Automation modules
25+Report sheets generated
100%Local processing
FreeNo license required
Windows native app
No data upload
Free to use
Open format (PBIP)
Active development

Before & after Dummy BI Automate

Without the tool

  • • Manually edit DAX, model files, visuals, filters
  • • Hours of tedious, error-prone work per report
  • • No single source of truth for report metadata
  • • No way to detect ghost slicers or unused measures

With Dummy BI Automate

  • • Guided wizard rewrites everything in minutes
  • • 25+ sheets of structured documentation in one click
  • • Health monitor catches issues automatically
  • • DevOps diffs ready for your CI/CD pipeline
Getting Started

How it works

From folder to output in three steps.

1

Load your PBIP project

Point the tool at any PBIP folder on your machine.

2

Choose your task

Document, switch, audit, or diff — pick what you need.

3

Get output locally

Results appear in seconds. Nothing leaves your machine.

Something bigger is coming.

Dummy BI Enginecompiles DAX into DuckDB SQL — run Power BI semantics on open infrastructure, without VertiPaq.

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