Analytics Engineering
dbt Consulting & Implementation Services
Production-grade data transformation on Snowflake, Databricks, and the modern data stack - designed, built, and delivered by AICG's analytics engineering team, accelerated by DBDeux, our dbt delivery platform.
Why AICG
dbt Done Right: Engineering Discipline, Not Just Models
Anyone can write a dbt model. Very few teams ship dbt systems - projects with the testing, CI/CD, and modeling discipline to run in production for years without collapsing under their own dependency graph.
AICG approaches every dbt engagement as a software engineering project grounded in two decades of data warehousing practice. Our modeling follows Kimball dimensional methodology - conformed dimensions, explicit fact grains, real calendar dimensions including 4-4-5 and 4-5-4 retail calendars. Our delivery follows production engineering standards: Slim CI with state-based builds, deferred environments, model contracts, source freshness gating, and automated deployment through GitHub Actions.
And because AICG builds data integration and analytics platforms as products - not just projects - you get a partner whose accelerators, patterns, and opinions were forged running real pipelines, every day, at scale.
What we do
Our dbt Consulting Services
dbt Strategy & Advisory
Whether you're evaluating dbt for the first time or scaling an existing implementation, we help you build the roadmap: architecture decisions, dbt Core vs. dbt Cloud, team structure, and a prioritized backlog of data products tied to business outcomes.
dbt Implementation
End-to-end delivery from project scaffolding to production marts: environments, source definitions, staging layers, dimensional models, testing, documentation, and CI/CD - delivered on the DBDeux framework so nothing starts from a blank page.
Migration to dbt
Move legacy transformation logic - stored procedures, ETL-tool workflows, undocumented SQL - into version-controlled, tested dbt models. We start every migration with a fixed-scope assessment so you know effort, sequence, and risk before committing.
dbt Health Check & Optimization
A structured review of your existing dbt project: model architecture and lineage, test coverage, CI/CD maturity, warehouse spend, and run performance - delivered as a scored findings report with a prioritized remediation plan your team can execute.
dbt CI/CD & DataOps Engineering
Our specialty. Slim CI with state:modified+ and deferred builds, manifest preservation, model contracts on downstream marts, tag-based orchestration, source freshness gates, warehouse pre-step gating, and nightly full builds - implemented in GitHub Actions and documented for your team.
Dimensional Modeling & Data Marts
Kimball-methodology facts and conformed dimensions built in dbt: retail calendars, SCD Type 2 dimensions, surrogate key strategies, and industry data marts for POS, payroll/HCM, and ERP sources.
dbt Training & Enablement
Role-based enablement for your analysts and engineers - modeling standards, testing strategy, Git workflow, and PR review practices - so the project we build together is one your team confidently owns.
Managed dbt Services
Ongoing operation of your dbt estate: monitoring, incident response, dependency and version upgrades, performance tuning, and continuous model development under SLA.
Delivery platform
DBDeux: AICG's dbt Delivery Platform
Every AICG dbt engagement is delivered on DBDeux - our platform of accelerators, prebuilt components, and codified engineering standards. Like the best product companies build on open standards, DBDeux is built on dbt: dbt is the engine, DBDeux is the delivery system that makes implementations fast, consistent, and production-grade from the first commit.
Industry depth
dbt Expertise Where Your Data Lives
AICG's dbt practice is strongest where our data integration practice is strongest: restaurant, retail, and hospitality operators integrating POS, labor, and financial data; and multi-source enterprises unifying ERP, HCM, and operational systems into a governed warehouse. We speak Toast and Dayforce and NetSuite natively - your dbt project starts with source-system fluency, not discovery.
Go deeper
dbt Insights from AICG
Resource Library
Whitepapers, accelerators, and playbooks from our data engineering and analytics practice.
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