Turn Your dbt Project Into a Semantic Layer

Draft placeholder. Full article coming soon.

You already have dbt models, tests, and a manifest. This post will show how to turn that into a governed semantic layer agents can query, without rebuilding your stack.

What this will cover

• Reading your dbt manifest to bootstrap metrics and relationships
• Defining metrics once so every consumer gets the same number
• Tagging the tenant key that scopes each customer's rows
• Exposing the result as a governed, per-customer MCP

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to migrate off dbt?

No. Bonnard reads your existing dbt project. You keep dbt as your transformation layer.

What if I only have models, not a semantic layer?

That's the common case. We bootstrap from the manifest and you define metrics in Bonnard.