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Lightdash is an open-source, dbt-native business intelligence and analytics platform built around a governed semantic layer. It connects dbt projects to supported data warehouses, then exposes consistent metrics through an explorer, dashboards, scheduled reports, alerts, APIs, embedding, Slack and Microsoft Teams, Google Sheets sync, and AI agents. Its AI surfaces can answer questions, generate charts and dashboards, connect external assistants through MCP, create data apps, evaluate answers, maintain content through Autopilot, and propose reviewable code changes. Teams can self-host the MIT-licensed core or buy Lightdash Cloud and Enterprise services.
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Analytics as Code with CLI-native building and GitHub version control is the BI workflow developers have been asking for
The Lightdash Analytics as Code video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRB1AEytzo0 covers the developer-centric approach that changes the governance story for analytics infrastructure. CLI-native build...
Lightdash is what happens when you treat BI dashboards like code and it is the right approach
If you work in data engineering or analytics and have ever dealt with the nightmare of undocumented, ungoverned dashboards that nobody is sure are pulling from the right source anymore, Lightdash is t...
Lightdash Data Apps building custom data visualisations from natural language is the product analytics capability teams have been asking for
The Lightdash Data Apps video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLLjfDAvEz8 covers a capability that is specifically interesting for product and data teams who need custom visualisations but do not want...
Anyone using Lightdash in production? Is it actually a good Looker-style Business Intelligence tool if you’re on dbt?
I’m looking at **Lightdash** as an option that plugs into DBT (Data Build Tool) and lets you define metrics once (semantic layer) instead of rebuilding logic in every dashboard. It sounds perfect in t...
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