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Product notes and engineering writeups.

What we shipped, why we built it the way we did, and what’s next.

  1. 2026-09-28NewsWarehouse connectors: where all thirteen standForewarden now connects to 13 warehouses. Five have run end to end against real instances; eight are in preview until they have run against a live account.2 min read
  2. 2025-09-18NewsSCIM provisioning for Microsoft Entra IDYour identity provider can now create, update, and disable Forewarden accounts automatically as people join, move teams, or leave.2 min read
  3. 2025-09-02ProductThe MCP server: letting an AI assistant actually query your dbt projectClaude and other MCP-aware assistants can now list your projects, trace lineage, trigger a job, and query a metric, with the permissions of the token they use.3 min read
  4. 2025-08-05NewsTwo-factor login and an IP allowlist, now availableAny user can turn on TOTP two-factor authentication. A system admin can also require it for every password account on the deployment, or restrict access to known IP ranges.2 min read
  5. 2025-07-15EngineeringSlim CI, explained: only rebuilding what a pull request actually changedA full dbt build on every pull request doesn't scale past a few dozen models. Slim CI builds state:modified+ instead.3 min read
  6. 2025-06-24ProductWarehouse import: turning tables you already have into a real dbt projectMost teams don't start with dbt on day one. Warehouse import is for the tables and views that already exist and already do real work.4 min read
  7. 2025-06-02EngineeringWhy we built the semantic layer on MetricFlow, not our own metric engineMetricFlow already solved the hard parts: joins, time grains, dimensional consistency. We didn't want to solve them worse, twice.5 min read
  8. 2025-05-14ProductIntroducing ForewardenA home for dbt Core: a browser IDE, orchestration, lineage, a catalog, and a semantic layer, in one place.4 min read