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Focus: Get up and running quickly with immediate value, not deep education. This streamlined guide gets you from zero to querying real data with your team in about 15 minutes. You’ll walk away with a working environment and clear signal that the 5X platform delivers value.
Estimated Total Time: 15 minutesThis activation-focused quickstart covers only the essentials. Advanced features like modeling, dashboards, and orchestration are available when you’re ready to go deeper.

Essential quickstart steps

Follow these steps to get your workspace operational:

What this quickstart accomplishes

After completing steps 1-7, you’ll have: Working data workspace with your warehouse connected
Real data flowing from your sources
SQL environment ready for immediate data exploration
Team collaboration set up with appropriate permissions
Foundation in place for all advanced features

What this quickstart intentionally skips

These powerful features require context and a learning mindset - they’re covered in Step 8 and dedicated guides when you’re ready: dbt Modeling - Requires understanding of models, repos, dependencies
Orchestration (Jobs) - Introduces complex scheduling and dependency logic
BI Dashboards - Needs metrics, modeling, and stakeholder clarity
Semantic Layer - Requires data modeling and metric definitions
Data & AI Apps - Needs use case clarity and data preparation
Advanced Git/CI-CD - Better suited for mature implementations

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Begin Setup

Start here: Account setup and workspace provisioningGet your 5X workspace up and running in minutes.

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