Announcing Ridge AI's Build Agent 2

Today we’re announcing Build Agent 2, our biggest step yet toward an analyst that helps you identify the right questions and build an effective analysis around them: https://www.ridgedata.ai/blog/build-agent-2

Since our beta started, Ridge AI’s Build Agent has turned datasets into interactive dashboards. Feedback from customers and many rounds of evals showed us where it fell short of our vision, so we re-engineered it from the ground up.

The hard part is knowing how much to ask before building. Too many questions and it’s a chore, too few and you get a plausible dashboard answering the wrong question. Arrive with a clear brief and the new agent gets straight to work. Start with only a broad goal and it asks focused questions grounded in your data, offering useful directions when you’re not yet sure what matters. Either way, it summarizes its understanding for you to confirm. It can also draw on documents you’ve already written, like metric definitions or business rules, instead of asking you to repeat them.

Once the goal is clear, the agent works in stages: first understand the data and what you’re after, then define the metrics and filters that answer it, and only then design the charts. It turns the confirmed goal into a plan and keeps every requested part in view as it builds. If something needs to be adapted or isn’t supported, it tells you what changed. What each stage learns carries into the next one and into later refinements, so the dashboard stays connected to its original purpose.

Visual analysis is rarely a straight line, of course. The agent can reconsider choices as the dashboard takes shape, and explicit undo and redo let you back up and try another direction. You can also rearrange the dashboard directly and continue working with the agent from there.

Build Agent 2 is live for all beta customers, including existing dashboards. Nothing to migrate or turn on. We have a few more exciting updates going live in the coming days and weeks as we prepare for general availability.

Happy building! 📊 And ping Ellie, Jeff, Andy, Elias, or me if you have thoughts, want beta access, or just want to chat about a cool dashboard of yours.