Connect ADP and
dbt with AI

Redbird AI syncs payroll, compensation, and HR data from ADP directly into your dbt transformation workflows. Stop manually exporting CSV files, writing brittle extraction scripts, or waiting on engineering to update your people analytics pipelines.

No code required
Live in minutes
SOC 2 Type II

What you can automate today

Redbird gives your team ready-to-run workflows — just connect your accounts and go.

Sync new ADP employee records to staging models in dbt daily

Automatically pull new hires, terminations, and employee attribute changes from ADP into your warehouse staging layer. Redbird triggers dbt model runs to keep your people analytics up-to-date without manual intervention.

Build compensation analysis models from ADP payroll and salary data

Extract payroll runs, compensation changes, and bonus data from ADP into structured tables. Redbird orchestrates dbt transformations to calculate departmental cost metrics, comp ratios, and headcount trends automatically.

Transform ADP time and attendance data into workforce utilization reports

Stream time tracking, PTO balances, and overtime hours from ADP to your warehouse. Redbird triggers dbt models that join attendance patterns with project data for labor utilization dashboards.

Enrich ADP employee profiles with performance metrics from dbt marts

Push calculated performance scores, tenure segments, and retention risk flags from your dbt analytics layer back into ADP custom fields. Keep HR teams working in familiar tools with enriched context.

Alert analytics engineers when ADP data quality fails dbt tests

When dbt tests detect missing employee IDs, duplicate payroll records, or unexpected null values in ADP source data, Redbird notifies your data team immediately. Catch upstream data issues before they break downstream models.

Archive historical ADP compensation snapshots for compliance and trend analysis

Capture point-in-time salary, benefits, and compensation structure data from ADP before each pay period closes. Redbird loads snapshots to your warehouse and runs dbt models to build slowly-changing dimension tables for historical reporting.

Live in four steps

No engineers, no pipelines to maintain. Redbird handles the connectivity — you focus on the outcome.

01

Connect your accounts

Authorize ADP and dbt with OAuth or API credentials. Redbird never stores your data — it just passes through.

02

Describe what you want

Tell Redbird what to do in plain language — no SQL, no code, no configuration files required.

03

Review and activate

Redbird shows you exactly what it will do before running anything. Approve the workflow, set a schedule, and switch it on.

04

Let it run — and iterate

Workflows run on your schedule or on triggers. Every run is logged. Adjust with natural language at any time.

Built for data-driven teams

Redbird understands ADP's payroll and HR data structures and how they map to clean, tested dbt models in your analytics warehouse.

AI that understands payroll schemas and analytics engineering workflows

Redbird automatically maps ADP employee records, compensation tables, time entries, and org hierarchies to your warehouse schema. It recognizes dbt model dependencies, test configurations, and materialization strategies to orchestrate transformations whenever ADP data changes. The platform handles type conversions between ADP's API formats and your warehouse, manages incremental loads for large payroll datasets, and triggers selective model rebuilds based on which ADP entities updated.

Employee dimension tables
Payroll fact schemas
dbt test orchestration
Incremental snapshot logic
10×

faster than building custom ADP extractors and Airflow DAGs for dbt orchestration

No Python scripts, API authentication management, or manual dbt Cloud job triggers

Auto-generated reports

Redbird can pull from ADP and dbt simultaneously, merge the results, and format a polished report — sent on a schedule or on demand.

Trigger-based alerts

Set conditions in natural language. Get notified in Slack or email the moment a threshold is crossed in either ADP or dbt.

Enterprise-grade security

SOC 2 Type II certified. Data flows encrypted in transit and at rest. Fine-grained permission controls with full audit logs.

Bidirectional sync

Push data from ADP into dbt, or from dbt back into ADP. Resolve conflicts with configurable merge rules.

Full audit trail

Every workflow run is logged — what ran, what changed, and why. Replay or revert any individual step at any time.

Triggers & actions for every team

Start workflows from any ADP event or dbt model state change and automate across your entire data stack.

ADP
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

New employee added

Fires when a new hire is created in ADP with an active employment status.

Trigger

Payroll run completed

Triggers when ADP finalizes a pay period and calculates all employee compensation.

Trigger

Compensation change recorded

Detects salary adjustments, bonus payments, or rate changes for any employee.

Action

Extract employee master data

Pull current employee records with demographics, job details, department, and manager hierarchy.

Action

Fetch payroll transactions

Retrieve detailed pay run data including earnings, deductions, taxes, and net pay by employee.

Action

Load time and attendance records

Export hours worked, PTO taken, overtime, and attendance exceptions for a specified date range.

dbt
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

dbt model run completes

Fires when a specific dbt model successfully builds or refreshes in your warehouse.

Trigger

dbt test fails

Triggers when data quality tests fail on source tables or transformed models.

Trigger

Source freshness check fails

Detects when ADP source data hasn't been updated within expected time thresholds.

Action

Run specific dbt models

Execute a targeted subset of models or an entire dbt project to refresh transformed data.

Action

Execute dbt tests

Run data quality tests on source tables or analytics models to validate transformations.

Action

Generate dbt documentation

Compile and publish updated data lineage, column descriptions, and model documentation.

ADP
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dbt

Ready to connect your stack?

Sync ADP with dbt and turn payroll data into analytics-ready models automatically. Redbird handles the extraction, orchestration, and transformation logic so your team can focus on insights.

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