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34 Demos - A Peek into the Future of Omni (Hint, Lots of AI)

February 6, 2026

Christmas comes once a year when the development team gets together at CKO and hacks at any and everything. Speaking personally, I (Colin) felt like I saw the future. AI integrated into every corner of the platform seamlessly - from database connections, to automated documentation, to slide decks, to spreadsheets, to dashboard building, to sending Slacks, to ETL, all the way to analyzing results with a circle of the mouse. All tied back to a core app that lets you understand and debug at every level.

Of course plenty more work on some huge steps forward - cross-filtering dashboards, demoting stale or single-use models, notifications, in-app conversations, even Python.

If you do nothing go read all the titles, because there is an absurd amount of content in this one. Will take us a while to land all of this, but the future is coming fast.

Blobby Learns to Analyze Hand Drawn Notes

Annotations, In App Chat, Notifications, and More

All I can say is you need to watch this one if you want to see the future. We have some of the basics with a new twist, like conversations and tagging for dashboards. But we also layer in hand-drawn annotation (think Microsoft paint) combined with the magic of Blobby. Circle an outlier and ask Blobby to go figure out why. Drill with a marker. Ask a question with a picture. This is a window into the future of analytics.

Chris SwensonChris SwensonLuke BowermanLuke BowermanThe Future, Ai, Dashboards, Workbook, I Cant Describe This Properly Just Watch

Python in Omni Plus Blobby Learns Python

The goal with Omni has always been more of everything. Python is more of something. Here we give a demo of some work on bringing data science to the app, and, of course, making sure Blobby can take advantage.

Gustav StapransGustav StapransJonathan SwensonJonathan SwensonDan SpangenbergerDan SpangenbergerTJ BanghartTJ BanghartAi, Python, Workbook

Model Demotion

The monotonic model growth will be no more! Maybe the feature request we've talked about the most internally. Data models grow. Sometimes that is good, sometimes it was because you did a one-off thing you're never going to look at again (or maybe even look at, but don't need polluting everyone's headspace). Conrad worked on bringing all that metadata to the data model, and ultimately allow users to push data model from the shared model back into their dashboards!!

Conrad SlimmerConrad SlimmerModeling

Super Serious[ly Awesome] Emoji AI Feedback

Feedback (and the follow up tuning) is a core part of building the AI experience. This demo reimagines the AI feedback with emojis to quickly let your developers know what is working and what isn't. And some fun baked in too.

Mariel FreyreMariel FreyreAi, Workbook

Crossfiltering Beta

Coming soon! We've been putting work into the cross-filter UX so you can slice and dice to hearts content with charts instead of filters. Testing internally, let us know if you want an early look.

Steven TalbotSteven TalbotRob MillerRob MillerDashboards

Blobby Learns to Spreadsheet

Step one was bringing a full dashboard into Omni. Step two is making it so AI can build those spreadsheets for you. Richard demos a few of those functions, including an instant invoice generation from a row of data, styling, or quick summary stats.

Richard CzechowskiRichard CzechowskiAi, Spreadsheet

Blobby Learns to Build Dashboards

Plus the Best Loader You've Ever Seen

Alisa shows off a quick tool to let Blobby bring content between environments (plus an awesome loader). Stay until the end to see Blobby building a new dashboard tile on the fly. More AI everywhere.

Alisa TatarinovaAlisa TatarinovaAi, Dashboards, Blobby Bouncer

Omni Full App Inside MCP

Bit of a futuristic demo. Here we load the full app into the MCP experience, including backlinks to the core app.

Meredith DodgeMeredith DodgeJoel DodgeJoel DodgeAi, Mcp, The Future

Blobby Learns to Build a DB Connection

AI Get Started

AI everywhere is the goal. Blobby takes on adding a new database connection in Omni, meaning you can set up a connection and get querying inside a minute in the AI chat.

Nate AgrinNate AgrinAdministration, Ai

Connection Setup Clean Up

Bunch of fresh UX paint on the connection setup page. Better organization, more clear feedback, instant model, etc.

Nate AgrinNate AgrinAdministration

Blobby Learns to Debug Your Database Connection

A little AI makes everything better. Here Blobby helps figure out why the DB connection didn't go as plans, with little helpers and a Q&A to get you unblocked quickly.

Cathy LennonCathy LennonAdministration

Embed Web Components

Adding a bit more delight to the developer experience for embed builders.

Nate AgrinNate AgrinEmbed

Omni CLI + Omni 1980 UI

Bunch of work on the CLI, including a nice new (?) UX.

Nate AgrinNate AgrinAdministration, Modeling

Release FYI / Understand Omni Versions

Mostly Internal

We ship alot of code (34 demos this week). It makes debugging which app version is live tricky for us internally. Our friendly neighborhood devops team built a full UI + Slack experience to make sure we can debug quickly.

Brian FrantzBrian FrantzKyle SpeerKyle SpeerAdministration, Internal

Dashboard Auto Pretty Plus New Layout Controls

Keyboard, Multi Element

First, we show off some new UX controls for dashboards - multi-element grabbing, keyboard controls, quick delete, etc. Then you see some new AI magic for instantly making a dashboard layout nicely. More to do here, but AI everywhere!

James BuecheJames BuecheDashboards

Omni Employee Directory

Internal

Sam had some fun creating a new internal tool to find Omnis.

 Sam Pittman Sam PittmanInternal

Blobby Learns to Surf the Web

Blobby can soon enrich results with live web queries, for deeper, multi-modal use cases (all fake names, etc).

Jamie DavidsonJamie DavidsonAi

Long Running Task Notifications

It's not fun to sit and stare at your monitor for long-running tasks (think queries then render or long AI sessions). Soon you'll be able to use notifications to return when the job is done.

Trip TateTrip TateUx, Scheduler, Ai

letmeblobbythatforyou.com

We built a quick microsite for when you need to help a friend understand their data better.

Chris MerrickChris MerrickTrey ShugartTrey ShugartAi, Fun

Blobby Suggests Dashboards Instead

Blobby has been a magical unlock for avoiding dashboard bloat. Just ask. But sometimes there was already a dashboard that answers your question perfectly. Soon Blobby can redirect you to those instead of reinventing the wheel.

Chris MerrickChris MerrickTrey ShugartTrey ShugartAi, Dashboards

AI Explo-to-Omni Conversion Tooling

The former Explo team shows off a bunch of new tooling to bring dashboards and reports from Explo instantly into Omni, of course with lots of Clauding behind the scenes.

Gary LinGary Lin Andrew Chen Andrew ChenAi, Administration, Conversion

Blobby Tasks

ie Blobby Builds Your Slide Deck

Surely you've done an analysis that you had to present in slides. Soon Blobby can build your decks or docs for you. Arielle shows off a few use cases for the new AI Tasks.

Arielle StrongArielle StrongAi, Slides, Vibes

Blobby Learns ETL

If you're anything like us, on the last day of the quarter you're sitting on dashboards waiting for the new ETL to land. Soon Blobby will be able to reach into Fivetran for new data on command.

Chris MerrickChris MerrickAi, Etl

Automated Documentation

We ship alot of code. Sometime docs are the bottleneck for customers taking advantage (including screenshots). The team has been working on offloading some of that work to Claude to make sure our docs can keep up with our builders.

Nancy ChackoNancy ChackoErin CochranErin CochranDocs, Ai

Table Text Formatting

Pills and Icons

We're prettying up the data table with pills and icons (backed with conditional formatting of course), so your data pops. And, like everything else, can take advantage of modeled colors for consistent table presentations anywhere you use dimensions.

Sarah WatersonSarah WatersonVisualization, Tables, Workbook, Dashboards

Markdown Columns

We're bringing all the flexibility of markdown to the data table. Grab values across the row for quick ultra-flexible data styling.

Richard CzechowskiRichard CzechowskiTables, Visualization, Dashboards

AI Columns Any Dialect

We already released AI functions in Snowflake, but soon you'll be able to take advantage of classifiers and other quick row-actions in any dialect using our calc layer.

Richard CzechowskiRichard CzechowskiAi, Workbook, Calcs

Blobby Learns to Slack

The goal is buttons only when you want them. Here we quickly send a dashboard to Slack using Blobby.

Eli CohenEli CohenAi, Slack

Multi-Step MCP Omni Workflows

Query, Build Dash, Schedule

An end-to-end demo of Blobby writing query, building dashboard with said query, and even building up a schedule on the result. Running the whole app from the MCP chat box.

Corey RudermanCorey RudermanAi, Mcp, The Future

Blobby Voice Mode

We're seeing more and more Blobby usage on mobile, so Jared built a way to take advantage of voice for AI data exploration.

Jared HardyJared HardyAi, Voice

Dark Mode Vis Config Defaults

An early preview of enabling chart styles independently for dark mode.

Jared HardyJared HardyVisualization, Administration

Styling Stub Periods in Charts

Is there anything worse than a time-series chart that tanks on the last data point because of a partial time period? Probably. But we fixed that anyways. Soon you can style your chart stubs to make sure your conclusions are that much more obvious.

 Mike Torosian Mike TorosianVisualization

Autohealing Code Tests

Our dev team got some new goodies too. Here we show off an end-to-end framework for Claude to understand and refine tests that let us ship safer, better, faster.

Kalen PetersenKalen PetersenInternal, Engineering Productivity

Release Summarization AI

Bit of new tooling to make sure the product team can see everything getting shipped and make sure you all know about it.

Jack SweeneyJack SweeneyInternal, Docs