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The trick is to make your own dashboard but not calling it a dashboard. When they try to stop you, claim that it is not a dashboard (even though everybody knows it is a dashboard). Insist that they define, in writing, exactly what a dashboard is. Continue rejecting their definition with counter examples. Insist that the definition is unclear and needs to be defined in a formal language. Reject their formal definition…
You've clearly played the game
When in Rome behave like the Romans :)