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Stephane Hamel
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April 1, 2025
Excited to announce that WASP - the Web Analytics Solution Profiler - is making a comeback to the hive! I created WASP in 2006. At the time, it was the first-ever tags debugger and made quite a buzz in the #webanalytics world. Today, I’m thrilled (and stressed) to reveal the next generation: MANTIS – the Metadata Analysis & Notification Tool for Intelligence Surveillance. After months of stealth-mode R&D and a patent-pending AI core, MANTIS takes things to a whole new dimension: It can now see server-side tags, decode complex implementations, and generate visualizations of your data layer like you’ve never seen before. And just like its namesake, once MANTIS has what it needs from your stack… it might just consume it entirely and block it completely! #newproject
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Stephane Hamel
Digital marketing & analytics shaped by data governance, privacy and ethics | Educator · Speaker · Consultant
5 months ago
Jeremy - hmm... your references might be a little bit confused, but thanks for the love! 🤣
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Stephane Hamel
Digital marketing & analytics shaped by data governance, privacy and ethics | Educator · Speaker · Consultant
5 months ago
Thanks for all the encouragement, the nostalgic love for good old WASP, and the (mildly terrifying) excitement for MANTIS. Truth is… April 1st strikes again. There’s no stealth-mode R&D, no AI-powered surveillance bug, and definitely no server-side tag-eating insect (although that would be pretty cool…). But I’ll admit: the idea of a next-gen WASP has been buzzing in my head for a while. And if MANTIS were real, it wouldn’t just debug your stack - it would probably judge it, whisper "why?" in your console, and block everything for your own good. So was it a joke? Yes. Was it also a prototype in disguise? No comment. Who knows… maybe one day.
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Christopher Zimmermann
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5 months ago
Congrats Stephane!, you’ve always had a gift for seeing what’s hidden in the data, and this next chapter with MANTIS looks like it’s going to do more than just observe As someone who proudly used WASP (and mourned its pause), I can honestly say this is the kind of innovation our industry needs. Can’t wait to get my hands on MANTIS. Keep me in the loop—I’ll be first in line.