Reduce, reuse, recycle: how dbt State cut rebuilds by 92% at RxBenefits

RxBenefits is a pharmacy benefits optimizer serving self-insured employers since 1995. Even after investing in Snowflake warehouse optimization and the dbt Fusion engine, every job triggered in dbt still executed every model — CI time and cost scaled with project size, not the size of the change.

This session covers how we rolled out dbt State to stop paying for builds we didn't need. Across all our environments, 92% of model builds in a single month were reused instead of rebuilt, cutting our Snowflake compute costs by 57% in production. We'll share what it took to get there, and a practical framework you can use to build your own business case.