Upon rereading KiokuDB and the original post, I think I got it backwards. You can tell KiokuDB about which columns of your object you want to have as "search columns", that is, real SQL database columns, but it doesn't work the other way around, intuiting the structure of your (ORM) objects from the table structure. Something like MooseX::DBI::Loader, grafting DBIx::Class::Loader onto Moose would be needed, but I'm unaware of that.