For read-only users

You have the Business role: read-only access to the workspace. You won’t write code or run pipelines, and that’s the point. Paradime gives you a trustworthy window into the data your team produces: what exists, what it means, where it comes from, and whether it’s fresh.

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What Paradime is, for you

The data team builds pipelines in Paradime; you consume their output with context. Instead of asking “is this dashboard number right?” in Slack, you can check the definition, the freshness, and the pipeline behind it yourself. You’ll use four apps:

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Concepts you should know

• Models are the products. The data team ships “models”: governed tables built with dbt™, each with documentation and tests. The Catalog is the index of them. Curious how they’re made? See what is dbt™.
• Lineage answers “where does this come from?” Every model traces back to raw sources and forward to dashboards, so you can judge whether a number is safe to use, and what’s affected when something upstream breaks.
• Freshness comes from schedules. Data updates when a Bolt schedule runs. If a dashboard looks stale, check the schedule’s last run before assuming the data is wrong. See what is Bolt.
• Your access is read-only by design. You see production data documentation, lineage, run logs, and cost metrics; editing code and running pipelines require the Developer role. See roles and permissions.

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Your first session

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