Information Toolbench
One model. Every platform.
Model your business once, then generate what each platform needs from it. itb keeps metadata behind your data consistent across every system.
Free to use
Generates for any target
Your model lives in Git
Everything is Metadata
itb did not start as a product idea. It started with what kept happening in client projects, over and over.
Capturing metadata is not the achievement.
Impact begins where the same model carries the picture and feeds the generator — dbt models, SQL, documentation.
No metadata without delivery.
The same artifacts, rebuilt every time
Importers, exporters, interfaces, schedulers, generators, models — they turn up in almost every project, overlapping heavily, and each time from scratch. What overlaps should be built once.
Experience should not be rebuilt each time
What one project worked out, the next one starts over. itb carries it forward instead: prebuilt elements, ready-made automations and template packs that arrive with the experience already in them.
Complexity has to become workable
Visual models make the structure readable, focused viewpoints keep each audience to the part that concerns it, and the whole picture is built up step by step instead of demanded upfront.
Every case is different
The base model knows objects, attributes and relations — and that is all. Everything beyond it is configuration, which adapts the tool to your case without ever changing that core.
From business model to running artifacts
Model your business in one place, then let template packs generate what each platform needs — and check the result against your own quality rules.
Model your business, not your tables
Entities, relations, attributes and types on a diagram canvas that arranges itself. Viewpoints let every audience see the slice of the model that concerns them, without anyone maintaining a second version of the truth.
Entities, relations, attributes, types and custom properties
Diagram canvas with auto-arrange and export as image
Unlimited viewpoints on one shared model
Install what others have already built
The template engine turns your model plus a pack of rules into finished artifacts. With the Marketplace you no longer have to write those rules yourself - install a pack and generate.
Browse and install ready-made template packs
One model, many target platforms
Packs stay yours to extend and adapt
Declare what good looks like
Quality rules are declarations, not scripts. State the standard your model has to meet and let itb hold every change against it, instead of discovering the gap somewhere downstream.
Declarative rules, no code to maintain
Checked against the model itself
Catches problems before generation
Ask your model a question
A SQL console straight over the model. Answer questions about your own metadata the way you would query any other dataset - no export, no detour through a catalog.
Query the model directly in SQL
Answers without exporting anything
Useful for audits and impact analysis
Trace it end to end
Generate a viewpoint of any attribute or entity lineage, then carry attributes downstream along that path. Impact analysis stops being an archaeology project.
Lineage viewpoints for attributes and entities
Propagate attributes along the lineage path
Import and keep external objects in sync
A modeling assistant that knows your conventions
Ask for a change in plain language and Bonsai applies it to the model itself — following the naming and casing rules that model already uses, and telling you what it assumed. Every turn is one reversible step.
Applies your house naming and casing conventions
Explains every change and the assumptions behind it
Undo turn reverts the whole step
Your model is just files in Git
Push and pull the model like any other repository, with a journal and undo on top. Review changes in the tooling your team already uses, and roll back when one turns out wrong.
Git push and pull built in
Journal and undo for every change
Export, import and generate artifacts
Together better
The Information Toolbench is a community-driven tool.
Leading experts in the market contribute to the solution, ensuring it continuously adapts to fast-moving requirements.
Who is behind itb
A few words from the people behind it
itb’s visual metalayer helps us manage complexity with ease while keeping development abstracted and clean. Its modular template system lets us extend and adapt the platform effortlessly as our needs evolve.
Dominik Imark
Technical Lead at Banian AG
Start free, scale when you need to
The free edition covers modeling, generation and quality rules — with no limit.
Enterprise adds traceability and team setup, Assisted adds our knowhow.
itb 0.1.2 is in beta: already used in client projects, and moving quickly.
CHF 0 / month
Git-native versioning
Business object modeling
Diagram canvas and viewpoints
Import model and JSON Schema
Template engine and pack Marketplace
Declarative quality rules
SQL console over the model
Support: Community
Contact for offer
Everything in Free to use, plus:
Multi-user and enterprise setup
Built-in actions in the context menu
Lineage for attributes and entities
Propagate attributes downstream
Import and sync external data
Support: Email
Contact for offer
Everything in Enterprise, plus:
Project support
Feature request priority
Pre-defined configurations
Support: Email and chat
How itb handles your data
Your models stay in your Git
They live in your repository. We hold no copy of them.
No telemetry
The software makes no outbound call to us.
Runs where you do
Docker in your own environment, Kubernetes once a team shares it.
No cookies, no tracking
Not in the product, and not on this site either.