# Build a Fishbowl Inventory Dashboard with AI (On-Hand Value, Low Stock, Negative Qty, Cycle Counts)

> Build a Fishbowl inventory dashboard with AI — on-hand value, low stock, negative quantities and cycle counts, straight from your live data.

[Watch the video](https://customer-w58k7541hezxj5p9.cloudflarestream.com/2fb43f59adb84f21a440bcafe368c627/iframe)

Inventory is the biggest number on the balance sheet and the hardest to feel day to day. Fishbowl holds every part; what's missing is a health check you can read in ten seconds.

In this video I don't build a report. I ask [ILC MCP](/fishbowl-mcp) for the Inventory Health Dashboard and it builds it live, against a Fishbowl database, writing the queries itself. No Jasper editor, no paid reporting add-on, no ticket to a consultant.

That's the point of the dual approach: Fishbowl's built-in reporting is rigid, and anything custom usually means iReport/Jasper or a third-party tool. Here the AI reads the live data through the MCP and lays the numbers out for you.

The Inventory Health Dashboard puts the inventory questions on one screen:

- On-hand value by location
- Low stock — at or below reorder point
- Negative quantities to fix
- Cycle counts due and their variance

The demo runs on representative sample data, so nothing here is a real customer's numbers — but it's the same build you'd run against your own Fishbowl.

More on building live against Fishbowl this way: [How to write 4 reports with AI in Fishbowl](/blog/write-fishbowl-reports-with-ai).

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*From Israel Lopez Consulting (ILC). Custom Fishbowl Inventory integrations and software, and Fishbowl experts since 2015. Written by Israel Lopez, published October 31, 2026. Questions about this topic, or want to reach the people who wrote it? Visit https://israellopezconsulting.com/contact*