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In Hex 4.0, our new project UI is purpose-built to help you understand the logic behind any element in a generative app. Create a 4.0 project to try this out today!

Someone sends you a vibe-coded app. Where did these numbers come from? Inspect in Hex 4.0 shows you exactly what's under the hood, so business users can build freely and data teams can still trust the output. In this video, I'll walk through: - Building an operating model data app from a prompt in our generative apps gallery: https://lnkd.in/gJdhD64g - Using Inspect to see the data source behind any visualization, like a trusted semantic model - The LLM-generated summary of what each visualization is showing - Viewing the notebook code behind the app, down to just the cells that matter, plus a graph view of how it all connects. If your team is leaning into vibe coding but needs governance and confidence in what gets built, this is how you get both.

What should an AI Data Analytics platform be doing in late '26 and into '27? 📽️Here I reflect on Hex Prompt. Some thoughts on what they're doing that all platforms should do: 1️⃣If your platform is too inflexible to incorporate all the latest AI tech, start again. Hex had to do it, and it has led to Hex 4.0. 2️⃣Build interfaces that let users switch context. Chatting with AI is good, but users need to see and finesse the details too. I like Hex's easy switch from chat to app to notebook 3️⃣Give customers easy migration paths from old to new. 4️⃣Where did that data come from? If you're not providing lineage for every part of your data apps, governance can't succeed. 5️⃣Finally, PLEASE put effort into your events. Especially: don't start your keynote with a corporate BS cliche video of urban landscapes, users, wildlife set to dramatic music. Hex didn't, and it was a breath of fresh air. Thank you Barry McCardel and team for doing something original and refreshing.

Hex 4.0, the entirely newly reimagined version of our platform, is now available in public beta! Now: - It’s easier than ever to ask questions from Hex’s UI, or external agents like Claude, Codex, or Cursor, and then create apps and publish and share them securely - With our new Inspect feature. it’s finally possible for data teams to have a first class tool for reviewing any number on an agent-generated app and actually understand how it was built - Apps in Hex run WAY faster due to our all-new execution engine We're so excited to hear your feedback, there's so much more coming!

Hex has dropped the cost of an agent conversation by 75% this year, despite the fact that the agent is significantly more powerful, uses more context, and performs more automatic background curation than it did in January. Here's how we did it, and why we're so ruthlessly focused on maximizing intelligence per dollar, not maximizing tokens.