diff --git a/dvc/pydantic_schema.py b/dvc/pydantic_schema.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9555fd9c1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dvc/pydantic_schema.py
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+import warnings
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Dict, List, NewType, Optional, TypeVar, Union
+
+import pydantic
+from pydantic import ConfigDict, Field
+from pydantic.functional_validators import BeforeValidator
+from typing_extensions import Annotated
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from dvc.fs import FileSystem
+    from dvc.types import StrOrBytesPath
+
+
+_T = TypeVar("_T")
+
+_Key = TypeVar("_Key")
+_Config = TypeVar("_Config")
+
+OneOrMore = Union[_T, List[_T]]
+Config = Union[_Key, Dict[_Key, _Config]]
+
+PathLike = NewType("PathLike", str)
+PathOrId = NewType("PathOrId", str)
+TemplateNameOrPath = NewType("TemplateNameOrPath", str)
+ParamPath = NewType("ParamPath", str)
+PlotColumn = NewType("PlotColumn", str)
+
+
+class BaseModel(pydantic.BaseModel):
+    model_config = ConfigDict(extra="forbid")
+
+
+class Plot(BaseModel):
+    x: Union[PlotColumn, Dict[PathLike, PlotColumn], None] = None
+    y: Union[
+        OneOrMore[PlotColumn],
+        Dict[PathLike, OneOrMore[PlotColumn]],
+        None,
+    ] = None
+    x_label: Optional[str] = None
+    y_label: Optional[str] = None
+    title: Optional[str] = None
+    template: Optional[TemplateNameOrPath] = None
+
+
+class OutputConfig(BaseModel):
+    desc: Optional[str] = None
+    type: Optional[str] = None  # noqa: A003
+    labels: List[str] = Field(default_factory=list)
+    meta: object = None
+    cache: bool = True
+    persist: bool = False
+    remote: Optional[str] = None
+    push: bool = True
+
+
+class MetricConfig(OutputConfig):
+    pass
+
+
+class PlotConfig(OutputConfig):
+    template: Optional[TemplateNameOrPath] = None
+    x: Optional[PlotColumn] = None
+    y: Optional[PlotColumn] = None
+    x_label: Optional[str] = None
+    y_label: Optional[str] = None
+    title: Optional[str] = None
+    header: bool = False
+
+
+class Stage(BaseModel):
+    cmd: OneOrMore[str]
+    wdir: Optional[PathLike] = None
+    deps: List[PathLike] = Field(default_factory=list)
+    params: List[Union[ParamPath, Dict[PathLike, Optional[List[ParamPath]]]]] = Field(
+        default_factory=list
+    )
+    frozen: bool = False
+    meta: object = None
+    desc: Optional[str] = None
+    always_changed: bool = False
+    outs: List[Config[PathLike, OutputConfig]] = Field(default_factory=list)
+    metrics: List[Config[PathLike, MetricConfig]] = Field(default_factory=list)
+    plots: List[Union[PathLike, Dict[PathLike, OneOrMore[PlotConfig]]]] = Field(
+        default_factory=list
+    )
+
+
+class ForeachDo(BaseModel):
+    foreach: Union[str, Dict, List]
+    do: Stage
+
+
+def foreach_or_stage_validator(v):
+    if isinstance(v, dict) and "foreach" in v:
+        return ForeachDo.model_validate(v)
+    return Stage.model_validate(v)
+
+
+ForeachDoOrStage = Annotated[
+    Union[ForeachDo, Stage], BeforeValidator(foreach_or_stage_validator)
+]
+
+
+class Artifact(BaseModel):
+    path: PathLike
+    desc: Optional[str] = None
+    type: Optional[str] = None  # noqa: A003
+    labels: List[str] = Field(default_factory=list)
+    meta: object = None
+
+
+class Project(BaseModel):
+    plots: List[Union[PathLike, Dict[PathOrId, Optional[Plot]]]] = Field(
+        default_factory=list
+    )
+    stages: Dict[str, ForeachDoOrStage] = Field(default_factory=dict)
+    vars: List[Union[PathLike, Dict[str, object]]] = Field(  # noqa; A003
+        default_factory=list
+    )
+    params: List[PathLike] = Field(default_factory=list)
+    metrics: List[PathLike] = Field(default_factory=list)
+    artifacts: Dict[str, Artifact] = Field(default_factory=dict)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def load_from(cls, path: "StrOrBytesPath", fs: Optional["FileSystem"] = None):
+        from dvc.utils.serialize import load_yaml
+
+        d = load_yaml(path, fs=fs)
+        with warnings.catch_warnings():
+            warnings.simplefilter("ignore", category=DeprecationWarning)
+            return cls.parse_obj(d)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 77e663b567..08885d2539 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ tests = [
     "dvc-ssh",
     "filelock",
     "flaky",
+    "pydantic==2.0b2",
     "pytest<8,>=7",
     "pytest-cov>=4.1.0",
     "pytest-docker>=1,<2",
@@ -242,6 +243,9 @@ module = [
 [tool.codespell]
 ignore-words-list = "ba,datas,fo,uptodate,cachable,falsy"
 
+[tool.pylint.master]
+extension-pkg-whitelist = ["pydantic"]
+
 [tool.pylint.message_control]
 disable = [
     "cyclic-import", "design", "duplicate-code", "fixme", "format", "import-outside-toplevel", "invalid-name",