Adam Storr

Head of Design @_hex_tech. Formerly @Palantir. We're hiring!

[Stammy @Stammy]

never seen this type of treatment before - https://t.co/WAFGBPP2VG has a cursor dwell UI for enabling scroll on one of their interactive homepage sections. so by default you don't hijack regular scrolling. neat detail

[Adam Storr @AdamStorr]

Codegen makes it much easier to imagine new experiences on top of secure data: interactive presentations, narrative experiences, weird layouts, bespoke interfaces... you name it!

Really proud of the team for this launch! 💜

[Olivia Koshy @oliviakoshy]

introducing in @_hex_tech: Generative Data Apps

backed by code, so you can build anything you want! a dashboard, an editorial, a customer prezo - you name it, you can build it 💜

integrated with your data team's context + built w/ governance, security and observability top of mind

[Olivia Koshy @oliviakoshy]

I wrote a letter to the next PM @_hex_tech about what it's like to work at Hex right now. If i had to distill it to one line, this is it.

If this resonates, I'd love to chat.

[Adam Storr @AdamStorr]

We found that as legibility decreased… understanding increased. Excited to unleash the latest at Hex.

[Barry McCardel @barrald]

Today @_hex_tech is introducing the boldest redesign in the history of software.

As agents transform software, everyone is questioning the role of UX. Will it all become vibe-coded slop? Or will it simply disappear?

At Hex, design is the heart of everything we do – and we believe in beautiful UI as much as ever.

Today we're introducing a preview of Pure Glass – a new language that evolves our UI, replacing harsh borders with frosted edges, and harsh contrast with clear translucency.

No one asked for this – but we're doing it anyway, and are so excited to unleash this on our users this coming fall.

[Adam Storr @AdamStorr]

@oliviakoshy @barrald He looks like he has a secret

[Adam Storr @AdamStorr]

Don't you want to look as happy as us? Come work at Hex!

https://t.co/NIL9YG6bEH

[Olivia Koshy @oliviakoshy]

the @_hex_tech brand & design team have once again truly outdone themselves

i'm OBSESSED with our new careers page, there's so many fun details and easter eggs

[Barry McCardel @barrald]

We have been testing Opus 4.6 at @_hex_tech for the last few weeks - a few observations:

Opus 4.6 performs better than other models in 2 areas:
1. Cases where passing/failing requires very careful attention to complex context (i.e., dredging up a single kind of vague line from a markdown file that explains how to handle empty arrays in a column). It's way more careful about instruction following from rules, guides, context, etc!

2. Cases where the model should be proactively taking action and pushing things to completion instead of doing half the work and asking the user if they'd like to keep going.

Overall though, we see it perform roughly the same as other models (slight improvement) on analytical evals.

As we’ve shared previously, though, the models do not seem to be meaningfully improving at analytical reasoning, sanity checking, catching obvious bugs / bad data that should merit a second glance, etc.

A concrete example from our evals is an intentional double-counting bug in an analysis about sales performance. The agent returns sales rep quota information, sees that everyone in the dataset seems to be obliterating their quotas (3-4x attainment!) and reports cheerfully on that stat, instead of going "hmm, that might be indicative of a problem" and sanity checking. Opus 4.6 is actually a regression from Sonnet on this!

Many more examples like this and a major focus for us as we iterate on our agents harness and context

[Olivia Koshy @oliviakoshy]

It's been awesome testing opus 4.6 on some of our hardest data tasks @_hex_tech.

It's a top performer across our eval set and handles ambiguity much better than previous models!

rolling out soon for all folks :)

[Adam Storr @AdamStorr]

Making absurd launch videos has become a retention policy at this point.

We’re elated to share the latest and greatest with context curation in Hex!

[Barry McCardel @barrald]

Observing analytics agents in the wild is very hard!

So, we made the @_hex_tech Context Studio... and this spy thriller movie to show it to you 🕵️‍♀️

This is my favorite (and dumbest) thing we've done yet and I hope you enjoy it 🙇

[Barry McCardel @barrald]

Observing analytics agents in the wild is very hard!

So, we made the @_hex_tech Context Studio... and this spy thriller movie to show it to you 🕵️‍♀️

This is my favorite (and dumbest) thing we've done yet and I hope you enjoy it 🙇

[Olivia Koshy @oliviakoshy]

its 2027 you should have data agents you actually trust!

with @_hex_tech you have observability, monitoring, alerting, and context governance all in one place. plus its easy to test & deploy

all live now :)

[Carlos Aguilar @trucklos]

Your analytics agents are out in the field. Are they equipped for the mission? 🕵️

[Barry McCardel @barrald]

this crushed @_hex_tech hackweek, very tempted to ship it

[Barry McCardel @barrald]

We built some new agentic features into @_hex_tech so more people can use AI for accurate, trusted data work

They're pretty fun, and we made a video to show them off

Lots more coming!

https://t.co/rqY8AfeukU

[Carlos Aguilar @trucklos]

I'm so excited to share our fall launch of Threads! 🚀🧵

I joined Hex just five months ago, along with the rest of the Hashboard team. It’s wild how much the world and Hex have changed in that time.

In that time Hex has shipped:

✍️ A first-class experience for building semantic models

🔮 The notebook agent and an agent to help with semantic modeling

🧵 And with this release, conversational AI for your whole team

Five months ago, I would have probably told you that “conversational AI for analytics” was still a couple of years out. But if early feedback from alpha partners is any indication, I think Hex has turned the corner — and I think we’re on to something really special.

Threads is the first experience that feels like a complete solution for allowing your team to chat with your data and get meaningful insights.

Don’t take my word for it, you can go sign up and try it for yourself. It’s in public beta TODAY!

[Ben Blumenrose @benblumenrose]

Hiring designers is hard. We just made it a whole lot easier :) Feel free to share...

[Barry McCardel @barrald]

you have no idea how much this cost

[Adam Storr @AdamStorr]

The internal hype has been off the charts... people on every team here have been using it with much delight. Excited to get this out in the world!

[Olivia Koshy @oliviakoshy]

it’s about damn time data teams have first-class agentic analytics tools!

introducing @_hex_tech's Notebook Agent 🚀

[Devin @JustMeDevin]

Cassette is live! a fun way to watch your home videos shot on iPhone. Is this a launch video? I’m not sure, but it is a video.

[Stammy @Stammy]

now that Figma and iOS 26 have Liquid Glass I almost don’t want to use it. every app will be doing it and it won’t feel special.

the more accessible a certain design aesthetic is, the less you want it.

tastefully riffing on it with your own flavor will be sought after