> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.paradime.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What is Bolt?

> Bolt is Paradime's orchestrator: it runs your dbt™ project on schedules, powers CI/CD with Turbo CI, and alerts your team when something breaks.

Developing a model is half the job. **Bolt** is the other half: it runs your dbt™ project in production, on a schedule, with logging, alerting, and CI/CD built in.

## The core concepts

* **Schedule**: a named job that runs one or more commands (usually dbt™ commands) against your production environment. A schedule defines *what* to run, *when* to run it, and *who* to notify.
* **Run**: one execution of a schedule. Every run keeps its logs and artifacts so you can debug what happened.
* **Trigger**: what starts a run. Schedules can run on a cron cadence, on merges to your default branch, when another schedule completes, or on demand via the API or an external tool.

Schedules live as code in a `paradime_schedules.yml` file in your repository, or you can create them from templates in the UI.

## Beyond scheduled runs

* **CI/CD**: Bolt runs your project against pull requests before they merge, building only what changed (Turbo CI) so reviewers see the impact of a change without waiting for a full build.
* **Notifications**: route failures and successes to Slack, email, or Microsoft Teams so problems find you, not the other way around.
* **More than dbt™**: schedule commands for tools across your stack, from Airbyte and Fivetran syncs to Python scripts and dlt pipelines.

## How it fits with the rest of Paradime

Bolt runs against the **scheduler environment** ([separate credentials from development](/guides/foundations/environments-and-connections)). Run health feeds [Radar](/guides/foundations/monitoring-and-discovery), and failed runs can hand off to a [DinoAI agent](/guides/foundations/what-is-dinoai) for diagnosis.

## Where to go next

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  <Card title="Create your first schedule" href="/guides/paradime-101/running-dbt-in-production-with-bolt/creating-bolt-schedules" icon="zap">
    Hands-on guide to shipping a schedule.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Bolt product docs" href="/products/bolt/index" icon="book">
    The full reference: schedule anatomy, templates, CI/CD, and triggers.
  </Card>
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## Related topics

- [For read-only users](/start-here/quickstart/for-read-only-users.md)
- [Key terms](/guides/foundations/key-terms.md)
- [What is dbt™?](/guides/foundations/what-is-dbt.md)
- [What is DinoAI?](/guides/foundations/what-is-dinoai.md)
- [What is Paradime.io](/index.md)