From exploration to AI, trusted analysis starts with dbt.
Move faster, trust your data, and scale self-service—all with a unified layer for metrics and governance.
Define metrics once. Use them everywhere.
The analyze phase of the ADLC is where business decisions take shape—but inconsistent metrics, slow queries, and scattered tools can quickly erode trust. With dbt's Semantic Layer and AI-powered dbt Insights, teams get fast, intuitive access to governed models and standardized metrics so they can explore data with confidence.
Learn how semantic models, lineage visualization, and query optimization help teams stay aligned and move faster.
Reliable metrics mean less guessing about data.
Work with consistently defined metrics and get the same answers—everywhere, every time. The dbt Semantic Layer centrally defines what key terms mean so you know exactly what data you're delivering.
Define once. Trust everywhere.
Define your metrics and logic from a single governed source, so your team works with the same secure definitions across every report, embedded app, and AI workflow—every time.
Improve access to reliable data
Give non-technical business users access to self-serve metrics and logic, whether in dashboards, agents, or directly in dbt, to make timely decisions with accurate information.
Serve insights with lightning speed
Give your team a speed boost with performance- and query-optimized access to consistent, governed metrics defined in dbt
Build fast, scalable AI and analysis on a trusted foundation.
Deliver consistent insights and AI at scale by centralizing metric definitions and governing access—all from a single source of truth.
Define governed semantic models and metrics as code using easy-to-configure YAML files. Everything is version-controlled, lineage-aware, and built for transparency—so you can trust that metrics like revenue or orders are consistent across every dashboard, app, and agent.
Power your analytics with governed, AI-ready data.
From dashboards to copilots—dbt is how modern teams serve trusted insights fast.
Proven by the best in data and AI.
See how top organizations use dbt to power modern self-serve analytics and AI with confidence.
Bilt Rewards saves 80% in analytics costs with the dbt Semantic Layer.
Learn how Bilt Rewards leverages the dbt Semantic Layer to deliver reliable, personalized embedded analytics to their partners and customers.
By centralizing our entity relationships in the dbt Semantic Layer, where all of our data transformations already live, , we could easily create visualizations in our B2B product. We delivered an improved data experience for our B2B partners by eliminating a step in our process, decreasing our data costs by 80%, and increasing reliability and trust.
Ben Kramer, Senior Director of Analytics
Dig into the dbt Semantic Layer.
Learn more about how the dbt Semantic Layer can help you deliver trusted data anywhere.
Why your AI will fail without a semantic layer
The semantic layer enforces guardrails, ensuring the AI system queries only approved, governed, and contextualized metrics.
Five use cases for the dbt Semantic Layer
From AI to BI to embedded apps, learn how to deliver trusted data to any endpoint.
Streamline dashboards with the dbt Semantic Layer
Learn how dbt Labs consolidated metrics for faster, trusted data delivery.
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