Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files?

A company spending $150k annually on Looker discovered that Claude AI was generating high-quality HTML dashboards that employees preferred to their enterprise BI tool, prompting them to build a simple internal service to host and share these files. Within eight months, the self-hosted HTML solution accumulated comparable weekly users to Looker with a fraction of the engineering effort, suggesting that AI-generated analytics combined with basic infrastructure can compete with expensive traditional BI platforms.