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The unwritten rules of being a head of data
Newly promoted to Head of Data? Learn the unspoken rules of data leadership—shifting from IC work to driving strategy, impact, and real business outcomes.
You're probably evaluating AI analytics tools wrong
Carlos Aguilar, Hex's Head of Product, shares why traditional checklist-based evaluations fail for AI — success depends on context management and real-world user interaction, not feature comparison.
Hex in the wild: November 2025 spotlights
Real data, real people, real impact — all built with Hex.
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The unwritten rules of being a head of data
Newly promoted to Head of Data? Learn the unspoken rules of data leadership—shifting from IC work to driving strategy, impact, and real business outcomes.
You're probably evaluating AI analytics tools wrong
Carlos Aguilar, Hex's Head of Product, shares why traditional checklist-based evaluations fail for AI — success depends on context management and real-world user interaction, not feature comparison.
Hex in the wild: November 2025 spotlights
Real data, real people, real impact — all built with Hex.
Your data team is too slow (and accuracy won't save you)
Katie Bauer, Hex's Head of Data, shares a hard truth: speed matters as much as accuracy, and AI agents finally let data teams deliver both.
Why data apps confused the hell out of me (and probably confuse you too)
Dashboards show you what happened. Data apps let you act on it.
How I used Hex’s AI to get fully up to speed on our sales data
How to get the sales performance answers you need without waiting on RevOps
Hex Agent, everywhere: Introducing Slack integration and MCP support
Get answers where conversations are already happening
Improving the Notebook Agent: error clustering
Why you should analyze your agent's reasoning, not just its errors
Self-serve analytics is finally real (and that's terrifying)
The data team’s job isn't to be the gatekeeper of every number. It's to be the architect of trustworthy systems.
Why analytics agents break differently
What we learned about context management while building production analytics AI
Is “data-driven” just slowing down your decisions?
Why outcome-obsessed beats data-driven, and how to build your team's decision muscle.
How we built a forecasting data app that gets more accurate every quarter
Why spreadsheets weren't cutting it
Hex in the wild: October 2025 spotlights
Real data, real people, real impact — all built with Hex.
Bitter lessons building AI products
What actually matters when building AI products when the world keeps changing


