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dbt Wizard

AI agent purpose-built for analytics engineering — available in the dbt platform and from your terminal.

VS Code Extension

This free tool brings the full power of the dbt into your local environment with features like live error detection, lightning-fast parse times, insights and rich lineage all in VS Code or Cursor.

dbt State

dbt State makes dbt smarter about what to build — skipping unnecessary rebuilds by reusing nodes when logic and data haven't changed. Works with self-hosted dbt and the dbt platform.

dbt Orchestrator

Every time a job runs, state-aware orchestration automatically determines which models to build by detecting changes in code or data.

dbt Insights

dbt Insights in dbt empowers users to seamlessly explore and query data with an intuitive, context-rich interface.

dbt Semantic Layer

The dbt Semantic Layer eliminates duplicate coding by allowing data teams to define metrics on top of existing models and automatically handling data joins.

dbt Catalog

Use dbt Catalog to navigate and manage your projects within dbt to help you and other data developers, analysts, and consumers discover and leverage your dbt resources.

Studio IDE

The dbt integrated development environment (Studio IDE) is a single web-based interface for building, testing, running, and version-controlling dbt projects.

dbt Mesh

dbt Mesh is a framework that helps organizations scale their teams and data assets effectively.
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