[cpimhoff]

All great advice. All this resonated with the team.

100% on decoupling it from the product. Our customers needed a headless BI solution and we needed a better internal framework, so the stars aligned for this first version being a little coupled. This kind of feedback is helpful, because it helps me advocate for capacity to decouple it fully!

Hashquery does have APIs to get the rendered SQL without executing it, so I think integration with any in-warehouse processing tool is possible, dbt likely being the most valuable.

Full materialization/interoperability with SQL is hard for any tool trying to encapsulate the semantics of the SQL. The intent of those tools is to encode concepts that are not possible to represent with static tables, so folding them back to a SQL-surface area will always be lossy. Having said that, we could certainly have a better story around it — materialization can still be useful even if it has some caveats.