Lightdash is a business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform built on top of your dbt (data build tool) projects. It lets you define metrics once in dbt and use them everywhere – in dashboards, charts, and exploration interfaces – with point-and-click ease.
Traditional BI tools often require separate semantic layers and complex licensing. Lightdash eliminates that by leveraging the dbt semantic layer your data team already uses, giving both technical and non-technical users self-serve data exploration without rewriting logic.
You connect Lightdash to your data warehouse and dbt project. Analysts define business metrics in dbt, and Lightdash turns them into reusable building blocks for dashboards and explore experiences. The UI supports interactive charts, metadata discovery, and AI-aided analysis. There’s also a self-hosted open-source option under the MIT license if you want full control.
