dbt Wizard: your AI teammate for data development
dbt Wizard's designer and engineering lead show how the agent validates its own work before code ever reaches production.
Overview
Introduces dbt Wizard, "the coding agent built for data, not software," covering creating/testing dbt models, answering business questions through data analysis, and discovering project assets. Explains the extensible agent skills framework and demonstrates autonomous agentic workflows.
What you'll take away
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dbt Wizard validates every change against a development schema and shows its impact as a DAG, not a diff, so reviewers see what actually moved downstream before merging.
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Design partners using dbt Wizard have reported a 15-20% reduction in production incidents since adopting it.
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Wizard is purpose-built for analytics engineering, not a general coding agent: it ships with dbt-specific tools, isolates schemas per work tree, and still supports skills and MCP connections.
Session speakers
Ryan Eakman
FivetranSam Ferguson
dbt Labs