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Start with the Quickstart to get your dbt project Lightdash-ready, connect your warehouse, and invite your team. From there, pick the track that matches what you’re doing next. If you’re consuming data, Explore your data walks through querying Tables, building charts and dashboards, and sharing insights. If you’re building the semantic layer, Build your semantic layer covers adding Tables and creating metrics and dimensions.

Welcome to Lightdash

Lightdash is an enterprise-ready platform for Agentic Analytics. Ask questions and get insights, dashboards, or completely bespoke apps.

The Lightdash way: data access

Our mission at Lightdash is to enable everybody in your company to answer their own questions using data.

Quickstart

Create your first project

Install the Lightdash CLI, generate your first Tables from your dbt models, and create your project.

Update your project connection

Inviting teammates to your Lightdash project

You can only share things with people you've invited to your Lightdash project. Users with **Admin** access to your project can invite users.

Explore your data

Exploring your content

An intro to metrics and dimensions

Querying from tables and exploring your data

Sharing with your team

It's time to share your hard work with the world!

Creating dashboards

Using dashboards

Build your semantic layer

Adding and managing Tables

Generate Tables from your dbt models with the Lightdash CLI, preview and deploy them, and configure which models appear in Lightdash.

How to create dimensions

How to create metrics

Install Lightdash Skills

Enable AI-powered development with Claude Code or Cursor by installing Lightdash skills