🥟 Introducing: Generative Data Apps
Today, we're introducing Generative data apps in beta. Anyone can build a powerful app simply by prompting the Hex agent. Everything stays grounded in your trusted data, helping you avoid inconsistencies or hallucinations while building powerful, flexible dashboards and apps.
Vibe-coding environments are fun and powerful, but lack governance. Dashboard builders have access to your trusted data, but limit your creativity. And hand-coding apps yourself is…hard. Generative data apps break the tradeoff.
🧑🎨 Every data app is a prompt away
Generative data apps harness the infinite flexibility of code-gen, allowing you to build, well, anything - dashboards, data editorial stories, or even interactive presentations. The possibilities are endless.
Our visualization team obsessed over the out-of-the-box charting components so they look great by default, but if you want to go further, the whole thing is yours to extend because behind the scenes it’s all just javascript. Just prompt the agent.
When the Hex agent builds a data app, it leverages the trusted context your team has already curated in Context Studio: endorsements, guides, semantic models, git repos, and existing trusted dashboards. The result is a more accurate output, with insights grounded in the facts of your business.
Data teams maintain observability since the apps leverage a Hex project for queries and transformations. Publishing and getting fresh data works the same as any other dashboard - no need to worry about figuring out deployment or using an app hosting site.
🎨 Examples of things you can build
Prompt the agent to “build an editorial style app.”
Or you can “Create a slide deck-style presentation about squirrels in Central Park…with an Oatmeal theme”.
Check out the help docs for more details about Generative apps in Hex.
📚 Send us your stories
We're introducing Generative data apps in Beta today, which means you may still hit a rough edge or two. We're working hard on these, and have much more coming soon. If you have feedback, send it to [email protected], we’d love to hear!