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Welcome to Workbench Docs

Workbench is a data toolkit for teams working in the built environment. It's designed to make it easy for frontline teams to benefit from LLMs, data converters, process automation and more when using or sharing their data - all without requiring specialist tools and personnel.

Screenshots of Hoppa applications

Workbench is a core component of the Hoppa data refinery ecosystem

Core components

  • Systems connectors for importing and exporting data from 3rd party storage locations like Microsoft SharePoint
  • Processing units for extracting content from specialist file formats (such as DWGs) and transforming, searching etc.
  • Declarative, plain-English workflow syntax for chaining together sequences of processing operations
  • Workflow orchestrators for executing workflows in local or serverless environments

Licensing & Use

The project is actively developed and maintained by Hoppa as a component in their data refinery ecosystem. Reach out to the team to discuss licensing and hosting.

Workbench is optimised for use within the Hoppa ecosystem, but can be run locally, self-hosted in the cloud or used as a package within your existing architecture.

Who this documentation is for

Teams who are thinking of, or who are actively using Workbench to:

  • Plan out the logical architecture for their data refinery and exchange pipelines
  • Build and execute data exchange pipelines