---
title: "dbt × LeanScale: how we run dbt"
type: "partner"
partner: "dbt"
tier: "Deployed"
practice: "Data & AI layer"
category: "Data Transformation"
vendor_url: "https://getdbt.com"
publisher: "LeanScale"
date_modified: "2026-10-06"
canonical_url: "https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge/partners/dbt/"
source: "LeanScale Knowledge Hub, https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge"
license: "Free to quote and cite with attribution to LeanScale."
---

# How LeanScale runs dbt

dbt is part of the LeanScale data and AI layer in Data Transformation. Our teams implement, migrate and operate it inside live client environments.

**Tier:** Deployed. We run it in production.

**Where it sits:** Data & AI, Data Transformation.

- Projects we run on it: 1
- Native integrations in our stack: 4
- Hub documents: 1

## What we build on dbt

1 project from the LeanScale catalogue run on dbt, each with a typical timeline from our delivery record.

- **Warehouse and pipelines** (Data and AI layer, Blueprint, Data pipelines): CRM, billing and product data in one warehouse, modeled and tested. Typical timeline: 4–8 weeks.

## How dbt fits the rest of the stack

Headless readiness and native integrations, read off the vendors’ own pages. Nothing here is asserted from memory.

**Connects natively with 4 partners we run:** [Fivetran](https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge/partners/fivetran/), [Hightouch](https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge/partners/hightouch/), [Sigma Computing](https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge/partners/sigma/), [Tableau](https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge/partners/tableau/).

## What we’ve published on dbt

1 podcast episode.

- [Ep. 119: The Agent Was Never the Hard Part](https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge/podcast/kushal-sharma-circle-the-agent-was-never-the-hard-part/) (Podcast)

Everything on dbt: https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge/tools/dbt/

## Work with LeanScale

**Running dbt?** Embedded LeanScale teams build, migrate and run dbt alongside the rest of your stack, on a flat fee. Talk to us: https://www.leanscale.team/contact-us

**Work at dbt?** Update your Arsenal profile so dbt is in every recommendation we make in Data Transformation. Update your profile: https://partners.leanscale.team/profile/?v=dbt. See the programme: https://partners.leanscale.team/?for=dbt

All 141 partners: https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge/partners/

## Canonical

https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge/partners/dbt/