Hex, founded in 2019, combines a collaborative notebook, SQL and Python together, for the actual analysis work with a separate, polished app-building layer for turning that analysis into something a non-technical stakeholder can interact with directly, rather than treating notebook output and stakeholder-facing dashboards as two disconnected tools.
That two-layer workflow, notebook for the analyst, app for the audience, addresses a common friction in data team workflows: the gap between the messy, iterative work of actual analysis and the clean, minimal interface a business stakeholder expects to interact with. Real-time collaboration lets multiple analysts work in the same notebook simultaneously.
A free tier covers individual use, and paid plans scale up for teams. For a data team that wants both flexible, code-based analysis and a clean way to share the result as an interactive app, rather than maintaining separate tools for each half of that workflow, Hex's combined notebook-to-app pipeline addresses both needs directly.
