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Hex is a data science and analytics platform for building collaborative data projects, including notebooks, dashboards, and data apps. It addresses the challenge of making data analysis accessible while maintaining trust and governance, offering AI agents for conversational analytics that ground answers in organizational context.

Key features include agentic data notebooks with SQL and Python cells, AI-generated dashboards, and interactive data apps. The platform provides a Notebook Agent for conversational self-serve analytics, a Semantic Model Workbench for defining measures and dimensions, and Context Studio for agent observability and management. Hex integrates with tools such as Slack, Claude, Codex, Cursor, MCP, a CLI, and APIs, and supports connectors to external data sources.

Hex is designed for data teams, analysts, and business users who need self-serve access to data. It is available with a free plan and a free trial, with additional options for demos.

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