Writing · 01 4 min read

Live charts out of screenshots, in 10 seconds

How Muse — Chronicle's AI assistant — reads a screenshot of a chart and rebuilds it as a live, editable one.

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At Chronicle, everything you see on a slide is a widget — charts, text, embeds. Each one follows a simple model so it’s easy to create, edit, and extend. On top of that sits Muse, our AI assistant — and Muse doesn’t generate pixels, it generates widgets.

That distinction is what makes this trick work: paste a screenshot of a chart, and Muse reads it, infers the underlying data and chart type, and rebuilds a live, editable chart — themed to your brand, in about ten seconds.

This post walks through how that flow works end to end, from reading the image to producing a real chart widget you can keep editing.

Read the full write-up on Substack for the details and the demo video.

Read the full post on Substack