An agent system to turn your reporting material into charts, maps and video. Splash produces the graphics and deploys them for publication.
The case for visual reporting is not an aesthetic one. It is about trust, comprehension and reach, and it was made by researchers with no stake in Splash.
In a survey of 768 people working in data journalism, 70% said it makes stories more reliable and 61% said it helps readers make sense of what they are reading.
EJC · State of Data Journalism, 2023Clear visual design makes the same reporting read as clearer, more rigorous and more engaging. A page is judged before it is read, and the judgement carries.
Information Design Journal · ACM CHIAI turns fixed articles into liquid information that machines break apart and recompose. What survives the recomposition is the shape you gave it.
Reuters Institute, 2025AI search is multimodal: it carries images and video alongside the text, so a piece with a graphic has more than one way of being found.
Google · AI Search documentationYou install it into your AI assistant. Splash guides the agent through a research-informed process for understanding the story and data, choosing the right visual form, producing it, and asking for your approval before publication.
Splash guides the agent to understand the story and data, decide what the visual should communicate, and propose forms the evidence supports. You choose the direction. The agent produces a draft for review, then prepares the approved output for print, web, video or scrollytelling.
The agent reads the story and data.
Splash guides it toward visual forms the evidence supports.
You choose the treatment and format.
The agent creates a visual for review.
You approve the final output.
Charts, maps and scrollies — forty-four forms in all. Splash knows what each one needs, and says so when your data won’t support the one you asked for.
Video written in React — every motion render is a program, replayable frame for frame, not a screen capture.
🇨🇭Zurich, SwitzerlandBasemaps, satellite imagery and 3D terrain — the geography under every map beat, from dataviz-dark to quantized-mesh.
🇨🇭Zug, SwitzerlandDelegated charts when a newsroom already publishes with it.
🇩🇪GermanyThe measuring and shaping layer under every custom form.
🇺🇸United StatesFast, honest defaults for exploratory reads.
🇺🇸United StatesGlobes and 3D terrain when the claim needs a planet.
🇺🇸United StatesPublic-domain coastlines, borders and graticules.
🇺🇸United StatesThe street-level geometry under the locator maps.
🌐WorldwideA searchable gallery of visual journalism from newsrooms worldwide — 4,500+ charts, maps and interactives as they were published. Browse it here, or query it straight from your agent while you’re working.
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