Agentic Analytics Engineering with dbt Core

Run your dbt Core projects with AI-powered orchestration and automation.

Built by data engineers. Trusted by data teams everywhere.
Transform your dbt Core workflow

Ascend's native dbt Core integration brings AI-powered orchestration and automation to your analytics workflows. Keep the transformations that fuel your business, add autonomous operations that scale.

Don't just orchestrate. Automate.

Other tools orchestrate dbt. Ascend brings AI agents into your entire data workflow—building pipelines, optimizing performance, and responding to incidents autonomously.

Ship data products 13x faster

From idea to production in hours, not weeks. Otto streamlines your entire workflow—from building models to orchestrating production runs to monitoring performance across your entire data platform.

Start with dbt, scale with Ascend

Your dbt models are just the beginning. When you need python-based pipelines, ML feature engineering, or operational workflows, Ascend lets you build them right alongside your analytics transformations without switching platforms.

Intelligent optimization for all

Ascend intelligently tracks changes at the partition level and orchestrates your dbt models to run only on affected data, cutting unnecessary compute and warehouse costs by up to 90%.

No vendor lock-in

Get intelligent orchestration, monitoring, and collaboration for your dbt Core projects—without per-seat pricing or vendor lock-in. Run dbt your way, on your infrastructure, with enterprise-grade automation.

Make the most of your data investments

Ascend offers an end-to-end data stack to help your team build faster, automate more, and deliver trusted data products as you scale.

Build Faster
Pipeline development, without the drag

Use code when you want it, clicks when you don’t. Ascend combines integrated AI agents and native GitOps for seamless team collaboration.

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Cut wasteful spend
Automate Workflows Easily

Ascend automates orchestration using rich metadata and event-driven triggers—so pipelines run only when needed, and custom logic is easy to build in.

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Deliver trusted data
Observe with Confidence

Monitor pipeline performance, trace lineage end-to-end, and debug faster with real-time, metadata-powered insights.

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Observe & Govern
Optimize with Precision

Run faster, spend less—Ascend uses metadata and fingerprinting to cut unnecessary compute without sacrificing performance.

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Pipeline development, without the drag

Ascend streamlines pipeline development with a unified platform to ingest, transform, and orchestrate data — eliminating tool sprawl and speeding up delivery. Teams report building pipelines up to 10x faster and reducing development effort by 75%.

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Effortlessly optimize pipelines

Ascend intelligently optimizes workloads. With Smart Tables that reprocess only changed data, customers reduce operational overhead by up to 90%.

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Trustworthy data, by design

With built-in schema validation, data integrity checks, and full lineage, your team can catch issues early and deliver data with confidence.

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Full visibility, no blind spots

Ascend gives your team real-time visibility into every pipeline run — with built-in monitoring, lineage, and historical change tracking. From spotting bottlenecks to resolving issues before they impact the business, teams get the insights they need to move fast and stay in control.

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Intelligence at the Core

Ascend's Intelligence Core combines metadata, automation, and AI in a layered architecture that empowers teams to build pipelines 7x faster and cut processing costs by 83%.

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Unified Metadata Collection

Ascend tracks data, code, and user actions in a unified metadata layer — powering automation, observability, and auditability through the entire data lifecycle.

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DataAware™ Automation Engine

Ascend’s automation engine uses rich metadata to orchestrate pipelines — managing dependencies, triggering tasks, and supporting custom event-driven workflows.

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Integrated AI Agents

Let AI do the tedious parts of data engineering — Ascend’s context-aware agents suggest code, explain logic, generate docs, and even automate steps on your behalf.

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Try it out. Your future self will thank you :)

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