What Paradime is, for you
Think of it as your complete dbt™ workbench: an IDE that knows your warehouse, an AI layer that knows your project, and an orchestrator that takes what you merge and runs it in production. You’ll spend your time in four apps:Concepts you should know
- You always work in the development environment. Running a model in the IDE builds into your dev schema, never production. Production runs happen in Bolt with separate credentials. See environments and connections.
- DinoAI comes in three forms. The copilot works with you in the editor; autonomous agents work without you in the Agent app; programmable agents are recipes you wire into schedules and CI. See what is DinoAI.
- Defer to production saves you rebuilds. Develop one model while reading its unchanged parents from production instead of rebuilding your whole project. See defer to production.
- Git is the only path to production. Branch, commit, and open pull requests from the IDE; Bolt runs whatever lands on your default branch. CI runs your changes against the warehouse before they merge.
- New to dbt™ itself? Start with what is dbt™, then the full fundamentals course.
Your path to a first shipped model
1
Set up your dbt™ project
Set up a dbt™ project
Open the IDE and get your project running. Your Admin should have connected the warehouse and git already.
2
Create and run a model
Create a dbt™ model
Write, run, and preview your first model against your dev schema.
3
Let DinoAI do the boring parts
Copilot use cases
Generate sources from your warehouse, draft models, and write documentation.
4
Commit and open a pull request
Working with Git
Branch, commit, and ship through review, all from the IDE.
5
Schedule it with Bolt
Create a Bolt schedule
Once merged, put your model on a production schedule.
Go deeper
Code IDE reference
Every feature of the development environment.
Bolt reference
Schedule anatomy, templates, CI/CD, and triggers.
DinoAI reference
Copilot, agents, .dinorules, and the MCP server.
Foundations
The concept explainers behind the platform.