MinusX is a chrome extension that adds a side chat to your analytics apps (Jupyter, Metabase, Grafana, Tableau, etc). Given an instruction, our agent operates your apps - by clicking & typing, just like you do - to analyze data and answer queries. We believe an AI Data Scientist is a scientist, not yet-another-new-analytics-platform. MinusX interoperates with you in tools you already love and use, and as a matter of philosophy, gets out of the way.
AI Data Scientist for Jupyter and Metabase
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### AI Data Scientist for Jupyter and Metabase

MinusX is a chrome extension that adds a side chat to your analytics apps (Jupyter, Metabase, Grafana, Tableau, etc). Given an instruction, our agent operates your apps - by clicking & typing, just like you do - to analyze data and answer queries. We believe an AI Data Scientist is a scientist, not yet-another-new-analytics-platform. MinusX interoperates with you in tools you already love and use, and as a matter of philosophy, gets out of the way.



MinusX

Founded:2024

Team Size:3

Location:San Francisco

### Active Founders

### Vivek Aithal, Founder

Co-founder & CEO of MinusX. Spent the last 3 years as a research engineer building the world's best open-source autonomous driving agent at comma.ai. Currently building a data science agent that can sit in your browser and use all your data tools. UC Berkeley and IIT Kharagpur grad.



### Sreejith Puthanpurayil, Founder

Co-Founder & CTO of MinusX. Previous stints include Ads Delivery & Ranking at Meta, Ride-hailing backend & infra at Gojek, & full stack at Elanic, a social c2c marketplace (acquired by Share Chat)



### Arpit Saxena, Founder

Ex-Google (Google Pay), GreyOrange Robotics, Udaan.com; Software and Systems Engineer building warehouse automation solutions for km sized warehouses



### Company Launches

[### MinusX: AI Data Scientist for Jupyter and Metabase](

**TL;DR**
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MinusX is a Chrome Extension that adds a side chat to Jupyter and Metabase. Given an instruction, our agent operates the apps— via clicking and typing— to analyze data and answer queries. We strongly believe that you already have all the tools you need; you just need someone like MinusX to use them! Checkout [**minusx.ai**]( for more info.

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**Asks**
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1.  Install our [**Chrome extension**](
2.  Take MinusX for a spin in our [**playground**](
3.  We’re working on supporting more tools. Want us to hurry up, or don't see your favorite tool in our list? Here’s a [**google form**]( you can fill out so that we can notify you when we support your tool!

**Features**
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### 1\. Generate Hypotheses and Explore data



### 2\. Interop with MinusX to modify existing Jupyter notebooks or Metabase Questions



### 3\. Select a region and ask questions, or ask for modifications



**Pain**
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*   Lack of data analyst/data scientist bandwidth is a certified pain.
*   If you’re a programmer, you just want answers. If you’re a product manager, you just want answers. If you’re an analyst/scientist, you want 10 clones of yourself.
*   Any new fancy “talk-to-data” platform is a whole thing. You have to migrate your data, and you have to convince your whole team to move— just to start using it.
*   Working in ChatGPT / Claude requires constant copy-pasting. Also, you want to inter-operate with AI, make corrections when it messes up, and guide it rather than just admonish it in chat.
*   More importantly, they’re still just chat! No AI system today can really use analytics software - click and type - to get you that data you needed 5 minutes ago.

**Our Approach**
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> ### **_An AI Data Scientist is a Scientist, not yet-another-new-analytics-platform_**

*   Advanced agents should just work with tools you already use and get out of the way.
*   MinusX integrates seamlessly into workflows. You can invoke it only when you need it to do something.
*   Whether you’re a data analyst, programmer, or product manager, you can use MinusX to speed up your workflows instantly.
*   We believe the path to advanced agents runs through specialized, useful intermediaries.

**Team**
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We love to build stuff. We met about a decade ago in the drowsy hinterlands of IIT Kharagpur and have been building things together at work, on side projects, and at hackathons ever since. [**Vivek**]( was most recently a Research Engineer working on self-driving cars at [**comma.ai**]( [**Sreejith**]( was a Senior Engineer in the Meta shops ads ranking team optimizing Facebook Shops Ads delivery & core infrastructure, and [**Arpit**]( was building a warehouse robot fleet as a Product Engineer at Udaan. We have extensive experience in machine learning, data infrastructure, and systems engineering needed to build the best, most delightful class of Data Science agents you'll ever use.

**Ask(ing again!)**
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1.  Install our [**Chrome extension**](
2.  Take MinusX for a spin in our [**playground**](
3.  We’re working on supporting more tools. Want us to hurry up, or don't see your favorite tool in our list? Here’s a [**google form**]( you can fill out so we can notify you when we support your tool!

If you have any questions or comments, you can join our [**discord**]( or ping me anytime at [**vivek@minusx.ai**](mailto:vivek@minusx.ai). Hope you enjoy using MinusX as much as we enjoy building it!

### ❤️


