We are heavy Hex users at OpenRouter. I was skeptical that it would replace "core" reporting tools like Looker, but the efficacy of the Hex agent has made it our go-to for just about all of our analytics, and allowed us to get incredibly far with a single (very good) person on the data team.
We can make completely reproducible reporting when we need it (for e.g. our weekly business reviews), while the agent can answer all of the ad-hoc stuff that would normally be done by a small army of analysts scurrying around.
OpenRouter only having 1 person in the data team is completely nuts. A canary in the coal mine for whats to come in the whole data space :|
1 or 2 exceptional ICs, a clean semantic layer and agents is "all you need".
RIP to the sexiest job of the 21st century ...
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thanks for sharing.
any other tools that are also key to your stack that you wouldn't mind sharing, so others can learn from and try out?
Love to learn more how to become a very good data person, mind sharing more about it.