Guide · Connect your sources

Connect your sources.

Aurelia connects the marketing, commerce and customer tools you already use as read-only sources. Each maps to an Airbyte connector that replicates history into your workspace’s isolated warehouse namespace.

What a source is

A source is a connection to one external system — your store, an ad platform, your analytics or CRM. Aurelia reads from it on a schedule and lands the raw data in your tenant-isolated Postgres namespace. Access is read-only: Aurelia never writes back to the connected tool.

Every source maps to a managed Airbyte connector, so authentication, incremental syncs and schema handling are taken care of for you. From there the data flows into the medallion pipeline — see See the gold layer.

Supported sources

Start with a revenue source plus at least one paid-media source. You can add the rest at any time.

SourceCategoryWhat it brings
ShopifyStoreOrders, customers, products & refunds
Meta AdsPaid mediaFacebook & Instagram spend and delivery
Google AdsPaid mediaSearch, Performance Max & shopping spend
TikTok AdsPaid mediaTikTok campaign spend and delivery
KlaviyoEmail / SMSFlows, campaigns and engagement events
Google Analytics 4Web analyticsSessions, sources and conversions
HubSpotCRMContacts, companies, lifecycle stages & deals
IntercomCustomer supportUsers, conversations, tags & engagement

How the connection flow works

  1. 1
    Choose a source
    Pick a tool from the connectors above. We recommend connecting a revenue source (for example Shopify) plus one paid-media source first.
  2. 2
    Authorize access
    Sign in to the tool through its secure OAuth flow (or provide API credentials). Aurelia only requests read scopes.
  3. 3
    Aurelia provisions the connection
    Behind the scenes Aurelia creates the Airbyte source and a connection to your warehouse destination — no infrastructure to manage.
  4. 4
    History replicates
    Your historical data backfills, then keeps up to date on a daily sync. Once data lands, dbt shapes it into the gold marts your dashboards read.

Where to connect

You’ll connect your first sources during onboarding (Step 2 · Data foundation), and you can manage them any time from Connections inside the app — add new sources, check sync status, or disconnect.

Connections are read-only and encrypted, replicate on a daily sync, and land in a warehouse namespace isolated to your workspace. A revenue source unlocks commerce and LTV; an ad source unlocks media performance and modelled incrementality.