Lightdash is a business intelligence platform built around dbt. Teams define metrics and dimensions once, either in their dbt project or in standalone Lightdash YAML, and reuse them across dashboards, ad-hoc exploration, AI agents and embedded analytics. Every query can be traced back to its official definition, and access is governed through roles, permissions and row-level security. Lightdash is available as Lightdash Cloud, a hosted service, or self-hosted with Docker or Kubernetes using an official Helm chart.
The company behind Lightdash operates as Telescope Technology Limited and lists a London headquarters; its privacy policy also names Telescope Technologies Inc. as an affiliate. The core of the software is MIT-licensed and can be self-hosted at no licence cost, while enterprise features, which sit in a separate directory under another licence, require a licence key. The vendor does not state the hosting regions of Lightdash Cloud, so a European organisation should confirm where Cloud data is stored, or self-host to keep data and processing on its own infrastructure.