Hex

Hex is a Full-Stack Business Intelligence platform for querying organizational data, performing analysis in notebooks, creating interactive data applications, and sharing results with technical and business users. The platform combines SQL and Python-based analysis with dashboards, semantic models, and AI-assisted data exploration.

Key Capabilities

- Notebook-based analysis: Analysts can combine SQL queries, Python code, text, tables, charts, and parameter controls within reusable notebooks.

- Interactive data applications: Teams can publish notebooks as interactive applications and dashboards with filters, input controls, charts, tables, and explanatory content.

- AI-assisted analysis: Hex agents can answer natural-language data questions, generate analyses and visualizations, and use organizational context, approved data sources, semantic models, and documented business definitions.

- Semantic modeling and governance: Data teams can define metrics, dimensions, rules, and endorsed data sources for use in analytics workflows. Administrative tools provide visibility into agent interactions, source context, warnings, and user roles.

- Collaboration and distribution: Users can share analyses and data applications with colleagues, publish dashboards, and deliver data questions through Hex, Slack, or the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Audience & Use Cases

- Audience: Data analysts, analytics engineers, data scientists, business-intelligence teams, operations teams, and business users.

- Use Case: Hex supports organizations that need to analyze governed data, create reusable reports and applications, standardize metrics, and provide self-service answers to business questions.

Technical Specifications

- Analysis environment: SQL and Python notebook cells with visual outputs.

- Output formats: Interactive dashboards, applications, charts, tables, and shared notebooks.

- Governance: Semantic models, data-source endorsements, role-based access, agent observability, and warning review.

- Access channels: Hex web application, Slack, and MCP-compatible workflows.