Shadowfax AI
an agentic workhorse to 10x data analysts productivity
Details
- External ID
- 45914434
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Shadowfax AI
- Website domain
- shadowfax.ai
- Launched
- Nov. 13, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 14
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5938864628820961
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi HN,We built an AI agent for data analysts that turns the soul crushing spreadsheet & BI tool grind into a fast, verifiable and joyful experience. Early users reported going from hours to minutes on common real-world data wrangling tasks.It's much smarter than an Excel copilot: immutable data steps, a DAG of SQL views, and DuckDB for instant crunching over millions of rows. Our early agent prototype ranked #1 on the Spider2-DBT bench. https://spider2-sql.github.ioTry it out and we'd love your feedback!Thanks, Di Wu & the Shadowfax teamP.S. Shadowfax is Gandalf's horse from LOTR. There's a hidden easter egg site with 3 different triggers, see if you can find them.
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer tools for AI agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- agentic assistant for data analysts
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A chat-based analyst UI is vibe-codeable, but creating an immutable, fully verifiable analytical computation graph that replaces complex spreadsheet workflows without code errors is very challenging.
What it would actually take: The platform needs a deterministic DAG-based data execution engine (often written in Rust or Python using Arrow/DataFusion) paired with an agent that produces verifiable declarative transformation steps. The hard part is ensuring complete reproducibility, auditable step-by-step lineage, and zero-hallucination metric calculations across large enterprise datasets. This requires data engine engineering and formal data modeling expertise.
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Competitors
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Launched 10 days after the earliest competitor.
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Same idea, different domain
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