I Built an AI That Designs Charts From Scratch — No Templates, No D3, Just Words

Most "AI chart tools" are glorified template fillers. You pick a chart type, paste your CSV, and the AI picks colors. That's not intelligence — that's a dropdown with extra steps. I wanted something fundamentally different: describe what you want in plain English, and get a publication-quality chart designed from scratch. What ChartForge Actually Does You write something like: "Revenue growth by quarter for a SaaS company, showing ARR from $2M to $18M over 3 years" ChartForge doesn't pick a template. It generates a complete, bespoke HTML visualization — layout, color palette, typography, data representation, annotations — all from scratch. Then it renders it to a crisp 2x retina PNG. Every chart is unique. Same prompt, different run = different design choices. The Stack (For the Curious) LLM : Claude via AWS Bedrock generates complete HTML/CSS/JS chart pages Renderer : Headless Chromium (Playwright) screenshots at 2400×1600 retina Framework : Next.js 16 with TypeScript 7 style presets