Max Musing

Meet Basedash Autopilot. Your company's answers are buried somewhere in your data, but nobody has time to stare at dashboards all day. So we built an agent to do it for you. Autopilot connects to your data stack to surface the high-leverage product insights your team is missing

@stanine wait till you try @Basedash

like, seriously, it's Star Trek made real

@Shpigford @RumoredAI @Basedash detected 👀 Fixing now

something i'm noticing as we build reports with @RumoredAI is that AI finds it very problematic to have these types of pricing tables. your average human can obviously look at this and see the visual difference of what's included in your plans. however, what AI bots generally see is a plain-text version of this. so the interpretation becomes that all 3 of these plans have all of these features.

@parkerconrad If you want reports that span Rippling plus all your other data sources (Stripe, HubSpot, Linear, etc.) check out @Basedash!

Rippling launched its AI analyst today. I'm not just the CEO - I'm also the Rippling admin for our co, and I run payroll for our ~ 5K global employees. Here are 5 specific ways Rippling AI has changed my job, and why I believe this is the future of G&A software. 🧵 1/n

Awesome to see Rippling support BI natively. If you want reports that span Rippling plus all your other data sources (Postgres, Stripe, HubSpot, Linear, etc.) Basedash can do that!

@alexbouchardd Very soon, will DM

@MaxMusing Release when 👀

6 months ago I prototyped a feature called "Reports" 3 months ago we shipped it to the public as "Autopilot" 1 month ago I renamed it to "Alerts" Today I completely rebuilt it as "Automations" This time feels right... 😅

@RobertCooper_RC @Basedash Very nice improvements

Our @Basedash slack bot just got a nice upgrade where we stream in the thinking steps right to slack. No more setting an 👀 emoji on a slack message and waiting and wondering. Also useful to check the chain of thought right from slack in case the agent looked through data incorrectly and you want to guide it in a follow-up to do something different.

the current state of code review

@diqitally talking to your computer is so lame but I love it

typing > talking for me

Whoa, a16z featured Basedash on its analysis of the Data Agent market. Great writeup by @JasonSCui and @JenniferHli on the agentic analytics landscape. Our context layer is a big part of what makes Basedash so reliable, and we've been doubling down on that. Cool to see others validate our thesis.

Congrats to one of our favorite customers at Basedash on raising their $50M Series B!

@KrisLachance @Basedash Man, they need to make a new season of Silicon Valley

The $10 million Super Bowl ad we’ll make one day: We'll cast Josh Brener, who plays Big Head on the HBO show Silicon Valley. Script: Josh is a data analyst. He can't write SQL. He doesn't know what a JOIN is. He once referred to a pivot table as "that spinny thing." Every Monday, he walks into the all-hands with dashboards that make the VP of Finance weep. Beautiful trend lines. Cohort analyses that actually make sense. Revenue forecasts that are… right. The CEO starts CCing him on board decks. A partner at Sequoia adds him on LinkedIn. He gets promoted to COO. COLLEAGUE (whispering): "I think he might be the best analyst I've ever worked with." OTHER COLLEAGUE: "I heard he turned down Palantir." (He didn't. They never called.) The board requests that Josh personally present the quarterly business review. He shows up 10 minutes late with a half-eaten bag of Cheetos. They give him a standing ovation. CEO (on the verge of tears): "Josh… how do you do it?" Josh shrugs. CUT TO: Josh, alone at his desk, typing into Basedash: "are we making money" Basedash connects to the warehouse. Builds the dashboard. Writes the exec summary. Formats the slides. Josh copies it into Slack. Adds a 🧠 emoji. Standing ovation at the all-hands. FADE TO BLACK. @Basedash. Business Superintelligence.

Opus 4.6 still undefeated for UI work

@tommoor Agreed. Excited to try the product and see where you take it next.

@MaxMusing You're not wrong, but there is a certain amount of foundations that need to be in place that will look similar to existing tools

In celebration I'm going to bump some teams off the waiting list for linear.app/diffs, hmu with your best sob story

everyone’s claiming that Cursor can’t compete with AI lab subsidies, but they just gave every YC company $60k lol

@GarettMacGowan Add a copy of Wikipedia and you can rebuild civilization

@MaxMusing Indeed. Although once we get a great open source version of Codex or Claude Code, my dream is an on-prem separate box. Inference ASIC with container jobs. Relatively dumb local model that dispatches to it. Then add solar panels & batteries. Doomsday intelligence preservation.

Pretty wild that most people have accepted giving hyper-intelligent AI agents full remote control over their computers. Easy to care about data privacy when the value-add is low. Blindness sets in when not using the systems implies "losing" anyways. --dangerously-skip-permissions