diff --git a/src/Weasel.Core/MultiTenancy/ExplicitTenantAssignment.cs b/src/Weasel.Core/MultiTenancy/ExplicitTenantAssignment.cs
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+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using JasperFx.MultiTenancy;
+
+namespace Weasel.Core.MultiTenancy;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Assignment strategy that always throws for unrecognized tenants.
+/// Requires all tenants to be explicitly pre-assigned to a database
+/// via the admin API before first use.
+/// </summary>
+public class ExplicitTenantAssignment : ITenantAssignmentStrategy
+{
+    public ValueTask<string> AssignTenantToDatabaseAsync(
+        string tenantId, IReadOnlyList<PooledDatabase> availableDatabases)
+    {
+        throw new UnknownTenantIdException(tenantId);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/Weasel.Core/MultiTenancy/HashTenantAssignment.cs b/src/Weasel.Core/MultiTenancy/HashTenantAssignment.cs
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+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+
+namespace Weasel.Core.MultiTenancy;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Assigns tenants to databases using a deterministic hash of the tenant ID.
+/// Uses a stable FNV-1a hash for consistent, well-distributed assignment.
+/// </summary>
+public class HashTenantAssignment : ITenantAssignmentStrategy
+{
+    public ValueTask<string> AssignTenantToDatabaseAsync(
+        string tenantId, IReadOnlyList<PooledDatabase> availableDatabases)
+    {
+        if (availableDatabases.Count == 0)
+        {
+            throw new InvalidOperationException(
+                "No available (non-full) databases in the pool to assign tenant to");
+        }
+
+        var hash = StableHash(tenantId);
+        var index = (int)(hash % (uint)availableDatabases.Count);
+
+        return new ValueTask<string>(availableDatabases[index].DatabaseId);
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// FNV-1a 32-bit hash — deterministic, fast, no external dependencies
+    /// </summary>
+    internal static uint StableHash(string value)
+    {
+        unchecked
+        {
+            uint hash = 2166136261;
+            foreach (var c in value)
+            {
+                hash ^= c;
+                hash *= 16777619;
+            }
+            return hash;
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/Weasel.Core/MultiTenancy/IDatabaseSizingStrategy.cs b/src/Weasel.Core/MultiTenancy/IDatabaseSizingStrategy.cs
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+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+
+namespace Weasel.Core.MultiTenancy;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Pluggable strategy for determining which database in a pool is the "smallest"
+/// and should receive the next tenant assignment. The default implementation
+/// uses tenant count, but implementations could query actual row counts,
+/// disk usage, or other metrics.
+/// </summary>
+public interface IDatabaseSizingStrategy
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Find the smallest database from the available (non-full) databases
+    /// </summary>
+    ValueTask<string> FindSmallestDatabaseAsync(IReadOnlyList<PooledDatabase> databases);
+}
diff --git a/src/Weasel.Core/MultiTenancy/ITenantAssignmentStrategy.cs b/src/Weasel.Core/MultiTenancy/ITenantAssignmentStrategy.cs
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+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+
+namespace Weasel.Core.MultiTenancy;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Strategy for determining which database a new tenant should be assigned to.
+/// Implementations are called under an advisory lock, so they do not need to
+/// handle concurrency themselves.
+/// </summary>
+public interface ITenantAssignmentStrategy
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Determine which database a new tenant should be assigned to.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="tenantId">The tenant being assigned</param>
+    /// <param name="availableDatabases">Non-full databases in the pool</param>
+    /// <returns>The database_id to assign the tenant to</returns>
+    /// <exception cref="System.InvalidOperationException">
+    /// Thrown if no suitable database is available
+    /// </exception>
+    ValueTask<string> AssignTenantToDatabaseAsync(
+        string tenantId, IReadOnlyList<PooledDatabase> availableDatabases);
+}
diff --git a/src/Weasel.Core/MultiTenancy/ITenantDatabasePool.cs b/src/Weasel.Core/MultiTenancy/ITenantDatabasePool.cs
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+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Threading;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+
+namespace Weasel.Core.MultiTenancy;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Abstraction for managing a pool of databases used in sharded multi-tenancy.
+/// Implementations handle the persistence of database registry and tenant assignments.
+/// </summary>
+public interface ITenantDatabasePool
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// List all databases in the pool with their current state
+    /// </summary>
+    ValueTask<IReadOnlyList<PooledDatabase>> ListDatabasesAsync(CancellationToken ct);
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Add a new database to the pool
+    /// </summary>
+    ValueTask AddDatabaseAsync(string databaseId, string connectionString, CancellationToken ct);
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Mark a database as full so no new tenants are assigned to it
+    /// </summary>
+    ValueTask MarkDatabaseFullAsync(string databaseId, CancellationToken ct);
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Find which database a tenant is assigned to, or null if not yet assigned
+    /// </summary>
+    ValueTask<string?> FindDatabaseForTenantAsync(string tenantId, CancellationToken ct);
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Assign a tenant to a specific database. Does not create partitions —
+    /// that is the responsibility of the caller (e.g., Marten's ShardedTenancy).
+    /// </summary>
+    ValueTask AssignTenantAsync(string tenantId, string databaseId, CancellationToken ct);
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Remove a tenant assignment
+    /// </summary>
+    ValueTask RemoveTenantAsync(string tenantId, CancellationToken ct);
+}
diff --git a/src/Weasel.Core/MultiTenancy/PooledDatabase.cs b/src/Weasel.Core/MultiTenancy/PooledDatabase.cs
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+namespace Weasel.Core.MultiTenancy;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Represents a database in the sharded tenancy pool
+/// </summary>
+public record PooledDatabase(
+    string DatabaseId,
+    string ConnectionString,
+    bool IsFull,
+    int TenantCount
+);
diff --git a/src/Weasel.Core/MultiTenancy/SmallestTenantAssignment.cs b/src/Weasel.Core/MultiTenancy/SmallestTenantAssignment.cs
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+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+
+namespace Weasel.Core.MultiTenancy;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Assigns tenants to the database with the fewest tenants (or custom sizing metric).
+/// Uses a pluggable <see cref="IDatabaseSizingStrategy"/> for determining "smallest".
+/// Defaults to sorting by <see cref="PooledDatabase.TenantCount"/>.
+/// </summary>
+public class SmallestTenantAssignment : ITenantAssignmentStrategy
+{
+    private readonly IDatabaseSizingStrategy _sizingStrategy;
+
+    public SmallestTenantAssignment(IDatabaseSizingStrategy? sizingStrategy = null)
+    {
+        _sizingStrategy = sizingStrategy ?? new TenantCountSizingStrategy();
+    }
+
+    public ValueTask<string> AssignTenantToDatabaseAsync(
+        string tenantId, IReadOnlyList<PooledDatabase> availableDatabases)
+    {
+        if (availableDatabases.Count == 0)
+        {
+            throw new InvalidOperationException(
+                "No available (non-full) databases in the pool to assign tenant to");
+        }
+
+        return _sizingStrategy.FindSmallestDatabaseAsync(availableDatabases);
+    }
+}
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Default sizing strategy that picks the database with the lowest tenant count.
+/// </summary>
+public class TenantCountSizingStrategy : IDatabaseSizingStrategy
+{
+    public ValueTask<string> FindSmallestDatabaseAsync(IReadOnlyList<PooledDatabase> databases)
+    {
+        var smallest = databases.OrderBy(d => d.TenantCount).First();
+        return new ValueTask<string>(smallest.DatabaseId);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/Weasel.Postgresql/Tables/DatabasePoolTable.cs b/src/Weasel.Postgresql/Tables/DatabasePoolTable.cs
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+using Weasel.Core;
+
+namespace Weasel.Postgresql.Tables;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Schema definition for the mt_database_pool table used by sharded multi-tenancy.
+/// Tracks the available databases in the pool with their capacity status.
+/// </summary>
+public class DatabasePoolTable : Table
+{
+    public const string TableName = "mt_database_pool";
+
+    public DatabasePoolTable(string schemaName)
+        : base(new DbObjectName(schemaName, TableName))
+    {
+        AddColumn<string>("database_id").AsPrimaryKey();
+        AddColumn<string>("connection_string").NotNull();
+        AddColumn<bool>("is_full").NotNull().DefaultValueByExpression("false");
+        AddColumn<int>("tenant_count").NotNull().DefaultValue(0);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/Weasel.Postgresql/Tables/TenantAssignmentTable.cs b/src/Weasel.Postgresql/Tables/TenantAssignmentTable.cs
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+using Weasel.Core;
+
+namespace Weasel.Postgresql.Tables;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Schema definition for the mt_tenant_assignments table used by sharded multi-tenancy.
+/// Maps tenant IDs to their assigned database in the pool.
+/// </summary>
+public class TenantAssignmentTable : Table
+{
+    public const string TableName = "mt_tenant_assignments";
+
+    public TenantAssignmentTable(string schemaName)
+        : base(new DbObjectName(schemaName, TableName))
+    {
+        AddColumn<string>("tenant_id").AsPrimaryKey();
+        AddColumn<string>("database_id").NotNull();
+        AddColumn("assigned_at", "timestamptz").NotNull().DefaultValueByExpression("now()");
+
+        // Foreign key to the database pool table
+        ForeignKeys.Add(new ForeignKey("fk_tenant_assignment_database")
+        {
+            LinkedTable = new DbObjectName(schemaName, DatabasePoolTable.TableName),
+            ColumnNames = new[] { "database_id" },
+            LinkedNames = new[] { "database_id" }
+        });
+    }
+}