The platform

BI unbundled

The charts are code in your Git repo. dbtCharts.com is the rest of BI: conversational analytics, a visual editor for everyone else, and hosting with access control.

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Connects to Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Postgres, and DuckDB.

variables:queries:charts:rows:ChatUIHosting & AccessdbtCharts.comBI platformdbt ChartsOpen chart language: YAML and SQL Semantic layerOptional dbt modelsTransformation Your warehouseData same dbtGit repo

Conversational analytics

Charts built for chat.

Ask a question and get an analyst's answer: a chart, a full board, or a written report with the numbers in it. It writes a few lines of YAML, and built-in tools check the result before you see it.

Nothing it makes is a throwaway. Every board in the thread is dbt Charts, so saving it lands it in Git, and it re-renders on fresh data whenever it opens.

A dbtCharts.com chat. Asked to chart bookings by lead source for this year, the agent renders a bar chart and reads it. Asked to make it a board for the sales team with win rate by source and bookings by month, it renders the Sales Team Bookings Pulse board and offers to save it as a board file.
A real thread on the platform.

UI

Start with chat. Polish by hand.

Click a chart to see its styles. Double-click any text to retype it. The design panel is generated from the language itself, so every setting has a control, and every change lands straight back in the YAML.

The Commercial Performance board in the dbtCharts.com design panel after two hand edits: the donut retitled The $180 Plan Leads and its background set to a light gray.
Real edits in the design panel: double-click a title to retype it, then pick a background.

Hosting & access

Share a live board, not a screenshot.

A link that opens on live data, for the people who should see it, in one shared place. Nobody exports a screenshot, and everyone reads the same numbers.

Live when it opens

No warehouse login to read

View, edit, or query

The dbtCharts.com workspace: boards grouped by project.

Govern

Visual pull requests.

For teams that want more governance: turn on branch mode and every change to a board becomes a pull request, reviewed as a picture, not just a diff.

Branch mode

Off by default. On, every edit made on the platform starts on a branch and reaches the live board only through a review.

See the change, not just the diff

Both renders side by side, changed pixels highlighted, so a change nobody meant to make gets caught.

A dbtCharts.com review titled Show bookings as a trend against plan: the Commercial Performance board rendered as current and proposed, changed pixels highlighted red on the bar chart and green on the new area chart, above the one-line YAML change from type: bar to type: area.

Migrate

Migrate your existing BI.

Drop a screenshot or export of a dashboard into the chat, or point the CLI at your BI tool's API, and the migration skills rebuild it as a dbt Charts board.

Screenshots & exportsPNG · PDFAPIor better yetAn agent with dct$dct skillsboard-replicateread dashboard.pngwrite revenue.yml▍An open boardvariables:queries:charts:rows:dbt project/models/seeds/charts/Your dbt Git repo

Setup and CLI

One CLI, from sign-in to invite.

The platform is built on the open-source CLI, so an agent with a terminal can do the whole setup: sign in, connect the repo and warehouse, invite the team.

Claude Code
Codex · Cursor Make charts of this with dbt Charts. Start with: uv tool install dbt-charts && dct skills intro
Terminal uv tool install dbt-charts

In claude.ai or ChatGPT, with nothing to install? Start on dbtCharts.com ↗

Agents that arrive on their own read dbtCharts.com/llms.txt.

From install to a shared board

# sign in and create the organization
$ dct cloud login
$ dct cloud org create "Acme"

# connect the repo and the warehouse
$ dct cloud project connect --org acme
$ dct cloud connection create --type bigquery \
    --keyfile sa.json --set project=acme-gcp \
    --set dataset=analytics
$ dct cloud source map analytics acme-gcp
$ dct cloud project sync

# bring in the team
$ dct cloud member invite dana@acme.com

Underneath all of it

No lock-in.

Boards are plain files in your Git repo, Apache 2.0. The same board renders on your laptop, in CI, and on the platform. Leaving never means rebuilding.

See the language Pricing

Point it at your warehouse. Ask anything.

Start with the free workspace. Connect your warehouse and your dbt repo, then ask your first question.

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