We Just Shipped Something Wild..

Product • by Sheary Tan

This is it. One of our biggest updates ever.

Agentic Notebook 🔥

We’ve been talking to a ton of you over the past few months, and honestly? The feedback has been incredible. You told us what was working, what wasn’t, and what you wished existed. So we rolled up our sleeves and rebuilt huge chunks of the product from the ground up.

Here is Livedocs 3.0 🎉 Packed with brand new features, massive performance improvements, and quality-of-life upgrades that touch pretty much every corner of the platform.

The Problem Nobody Talks About

Here’s the thing about data work, and I mean really working with data, not just running SELECT * queries, it’s messy.

Your datasets live in five different places. Your stakeholders want answers yesterday. And somewhere between pulling that CSV and building that dashboard, you’ve opened 14 browser tabs, three different notebooks, and you’re pretty sure you just overwrote your cleaned dataset with the raw one.

Enter: The Thing We’ve Been Building

So what’d we actually build?

Think of it this way, what if your notebook could think alongside you? Not replace you (because let’s be real, AI’s not there yet), but actually collaborate with you. Like having that senior data scientist sitting next to you.

That’s what this does. But here’s what it actually means in practice:

You’re working on a dataset. You ask it to clean some columns, it does that, sure. But then it notices something. Maybe there’s a pattern in your missing data. Maybe your date formats are inconsistent in ways that’ll break downstream. It doesn’t just fix things; it explains what it found and why it matters. It’s the difference between autocomplete and actually understanding context.

Watch the intro here

Livedocs Agent Try it yourself here, visit livedocs.com

What Makes This Different

We’ve all played with AI coding assistants by now. GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, they’re all impressive. But they’re built for general-purpose coding, which means they’re kinda… generic when it comes to data work.

Livedocs 3.0? This is built specifically for the way data people actually work.

It understands your data context, not just your code. Show it a dataframe, and it gets the shape, the types, the distributions. Ask it to “fix the dates,” and it knows what you mean.
It can search for what you need, and I mean really search. Need a specific dataset? It’ll find it. Documentation for that one Pandas function you always forget? Got it. Recent papers about your modeling approach?
Terminal access, because sometimes you just need to pip install something or check your Python version, and context-switching kills momentum. Multi-modal understanding — throw images, PDFs, even screenshots at it. Got a dashboard spec from a stakeholder? Just upload it. Data dictionary in PDF form? Works.
The best part? It streams responses now. Like, actually streams them. We’re talking 8× faster than before. No more staring at loading spinners while your train of thought derails.

Livedocs Notebook Try it yourself here, visit livedocs.com

The Technical Bits

Under the hood, we’re running some pretty interesting infrastructure:

Model flexibility — GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.1, or whatever works best for your use case. Choose whichever model fits your workflow.
Rules — You can now add system-level instructions to the agent. Think of them as reusable, persistent context at the prompt level, preferences, style guides, or constraints you want to apply across sessions.
Smart context management — you can see exactly how many tokens you’re using. No surprise bills or hidden costs.
And we doubled the free credits from $5 to $10. Because honestly, we want you to actually use this thing productively.

Read the changelog here

Try it yourself

Head over to livedocs.com/start and spin up a notebook. The free tier includes $10 in AI credits now, enough to really put it through its paces. No credit card required.

Got questions? Want to yell at me about something that’s broken? Email me directly at a@livedocs.com. Seriously. I read every email.

And if you want to see what we’re shipping in real-time, follow us on X and LinkedIn. We ship fast, we ship often, and we’re always down to chat about what you’re building.