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Before you build that data agent, I have notes.

Build vs. buy in data has never been hotter. But do you know what you’re signing up for?

Hill climbing to glory: using evals to cut AI errors 7x

How 1,800 evals showed us AI feature quality improvements go beyond prompting

You don't need to migrate those 300 dashboards

Real self-service means migrating logic, not dashboard UI.

The AI data sprawl

Nobody can trace it. The data team still owns the mess.

Introducing: Generative Chart Controls

Breaking the tradeoff between code-gen visualization and last-mile precision

Your next BI tool shouldn't be a BI tool

BI as an industry has become defined by its ever-changing requirements. But what does it mean today?

Introducing DataBench

A frontier benchmark for complex data work and analytical reasoning

Introducing Evals

Measure Hex Agent performance and test context changes safely before they ship, all from the CLI.

Trust used to be implied

Evals aren't just how you fix your agent — they're how you convince people to trust it.

Caching is all you need

Our cache hit rate looked great. Our cost data disagreed. Here's what we found when we stopped trusting the average.

Accuracy and AI analytics: How the best data teams obsess over context

AI analytics depends on context for trusted answers. Here's how data teams at Ramp, Underdog, and Hover build and manage that context with Hex.

The life and times of data teams in the AI era

When everyone is a data person, what does it mean to be a data team?

Building semantic models in Hex: A playbook for governed & trustworthy metrics

A practical build recipe for Hex admins and data leads

Credits and usage visibility for Hex Agents

We’re rolling out monthly credit grants for Hex Agents, plus new ways to monitor usage and buy add-on credits.

Kimi K2.7 in Hex: near-frontier analytics at a fraction of the cost

Open models have finally caught up to their closed counterparts