Airtable Release Notes

Insert as JSON

Hi everyone,

Two quality-of-life improvements just landed in Automations, both aimed at making it easier to pass data from one step of your automation to the next.

When you're inserting dynamic data into a later action, you've always been able to pull in individual values one at a time. Now there's a faster option: you can insert a whole group of related data at once with the new "Insert as JSON" token. This works for both a single group of details (an object) and a list of items (an array).

This is especially handy when you're working with data that has a lot of nested detail, like the response from an incoming webhook trigger or the output of a "Generate structured data" action. Instead of drilling in and picking each property by hand, you can grab the whole thing in one step.

You'll see one of two versions, depending on where you're inserting it:

• Insert as JSON string — appears when you're inserting into a text field.
• Insert as JSON data — appears for inputs on the "Run a script" action.

If you've ever wrestled with getting webhook data into a script, this one's for you.

First item and Last item

Some data in Airtable always comes through as a list, even when there's only one thing in it. Linked records, lookups, and the output of the "Find records" action all behave this way. If you've ever tried to drop one of those into a text field or a condition and hit an error like "Cannot assign list of string to string," this is the fix.

Now, whenever you're referencing a list, you'll see two new options: "First item" and "Last item." These read a single value out of the list so you can use it directly in text fields, conditions, and comparisons — no more workarounds like an extra formula field or a script step.

Both features are available now. Give them a try, and let us know what you think or if you run into anything. We'd love to hear how you're putting them to use!

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Welcome to the July 2026 edition of The Airtable Effect —a monthly roundup of what’s new, what’s inspiring, and what’s possible with Airtable. Whether you're an everyday builder, a certified pro, or just getting started, this newsletter is for you.

In each rendition of the newsletter, we’ll bring you:
• New product and program launches and updates
• The latest educational content from Airtable Academy
• Highlights from the Airtable Community
• Upcoming events you won’t want to miss

You can find The Airtable Effect every month:
• In your inbox (are you opted into marketing emails?)
• On LinkedIn (make sure to subscribe to this newsletter!)
• In the Airtable Community (check the Onboarding Resources section)

Let’s take a look back at what happened in Airtable last month.

🏆 Airtable Academy reaches 10,000 certifications awarded!
Huge milestone alert: Airtable Academy has officially awarded 10,000 certifications — and counting.

As of June, over 10,000 certifications have been earned by builders putting real skills to real work, whether that's building a first automation, architecting a multi-table base, kickstarting AI fluency, or mastering AI features like Omni, Field Agents, and the Airtable MCP.

To mark the moment, we're collecting the stories behind the number -- what each certification actually unlocked. Did it help you ship a build you wouldn't have attempted before, earn a promotion or a new role, get recognized on LinkedIn, or turn you into the go-to Airtable person on your team?

Share your story in the community thread, and we may spotlight some of our favorites in an upcoming newsletter and on social (with your okay). Four certifications are available — Builder, Agentic Systems Design, AI-First Foundations, and Airtable Admin — and Academy is free for everyone.

Read the community post & share your story → or start learning with Airtable Academy and get certified →

💬 We're Revamping r/Airtable
The r/Airtable subreddit is getting a refresh, and the Airtable Community team is showing up in a bigger way.

The update brings a cleaner sidebar with actually-useful links, a new flair system (ten categories, required on all posts) so conversations are browsable by topic and help questions reach the right people, and two recurring threads: Ask an Expert Tuesday (a weekly AMA with folks from the Ask an Expert / Base Optimization team) and Builders Showcase Friday (a space to share what you've built and get feedback).

Expect more of the Airtable team in the mix — announcements, course launches, feature news, and event updates — clearly flaired so you always know what's coming from us. The goal isn't to turn the sub into a marketing feed; it's to supplement the authentic builder-to-builder conversations already happening with the latest from Airtable.

Join the conversation on r/Airtable →

🛠️ Change Makers: Transforming Product Operations Through Connected Systems With Kassim Alani
Change Makers is our recurring series highlighting customer stories and builders making an incredible impact with Airtable.

This month's Change Maker is Kassim Alani, an Airtable MVP who turned his organization's product operations into a connected, AI-powered operating system.

Before Airtable, Kassim's team wrestled with information scattered across documents, sheets, and tribal knowledge — making product launches a maze of duplicative docs and inconsistent communication. He built a single product operating system in Airtable that ties together portfolio management, market insights, customer feedback, and competitive intelligence, leaning on Airtable AI (Deep Match and Omni) to surface patterns and turn feature requests into clearly defined user problems.

The payoff: customer feedback processing went from four weeks across four people down to one person in a week, and account planning dropped from 5–6 hours to 20–30 minutes. Even better, it's sparked a more customer-centric culture — product teams now reference Kassim's tools when proposing new builds.

Read the full Change Maker spotlight →

📅 Community Event Calendar
We’re always planning an exciting calendar of live events, user group hangouts, and office hours. Here’s what’s coming up:
• July 8: Atlanta Meetup | Inaugural Meetup | Register
• July 9: London Meetup | Navigating your AI Journey | Register
• July 10: Evento virtual en español | Mejores Formularios, Builds Más Inteligentes con la IA de Airtable | Register
• July 13: Airtable Bay Area Meetup | EV01: Off-Label Builds | Register
• July 14: Virtual PMO Crew | Foundations of Work Management in Airtable | Register
• July 14–16: Airtable Product Updates | Register
• July 15: Let's Build Live: App Building in Interfaces | Register
• July 16: Virtual Admin Crew | The Admin Audit | Register
• July 23: Virtual AI Crew | Design Better Workflows with ChatGPT + Airtable | Register
• July 28: London Meetup | BYOB (Bring your own build) | Register

View all upcoming events →

🚀 Product Launch Recap
Catch up on the latest features that launched this month—built to save you time, streamline workflows, and unlock new use cases.

✅ Chat with Omni on iOS and Android
Omni is now available in the Airtable mobile app, making it easy to ask questions about your data wherever you are. Use voice or text to summarize records, analyze trends, and get answers about any base you have access to—all while respecting the same permissions and admin controls as desktop.

Use cases:
• Sales teams can review the latest account activity and open opportunities before walking into a customer meeting.
• Field operations teams can ask Omni about work orders, asset history, or maintenance records while on-site.
• Executives can quickly check project health, pipeline updates, or key business metrics while traveling.

✅ Turn Comments into Automated Workflows
Comments are now automation triggers. Whenever someone leaves a comment on a record, Airtable can automatically launch workflows using the comment text, author, and any @mentions—turning conversations into action.

Use cases:
• Marketing teams can automatically create a design revision task whenever feedback is left on a creative asset.
• IT teams can notify the assigned engineer in Slack whenever they're @mentioned on an incident or support request.
• Customer Success teams can route product feedback to the appropriate product manager without manually triaging comments.

✅ Form Editing for Record Detail Pages
Record detail pages now support a new Form editing mode, giving users a guided, validated editing experience instead of inline edits. Changes are submitted all at once through a customizable form, making data entry more structured and consistent.

Use cases:
• HR teams can standardize employee performance reviews by requiring managers to complete every required field before submitting.
• Manufacturing teams can capture quality inspections with built-in validation to prevent incomplete audit records.
• Healthcare organizations can guide staff through patient intake or compliance workflows while ensuring required information is collected before submission.

View “What’s new in Airtable” →

Did you find the Airtable Effect helpful? Any suggestions or recommendations for future editions? Want to learn more about the Airtable Academy and/or Community programs?

Or do you want to be featured in an upcoming rendition? Reach out on LinkedIn and/or on the Airtable Community (@kev) and show us what you've built in Airtable!

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Welcome to the June 2026 edition of The Airtable Effect —a monthly roundup of what’s new, what’s inspiring, and what’s possible with Airtable. Whether you're an everyday builder, a certified pro, or just getting started, this newsletter is for you. In each rendition of the newsletter, we’ll bring you:

• New product and program launches and updates
• The latest educational content from Airtable Academy
• Highlights from the Airtable Community
• Upcoming events you won’t want to miss

You can find The Airtable Effect every month:

• In your inbox (are you opted into marketing emails?)
• On LinkedIn (make sure to subscribe to this newsletter!)
• In the Airtable Community (check the Onboarding Resources section)

Let’s take a look back at what happened in Airtable last month.

🏆 New This Month: The Agentic Systems Design Certification (+ two certification refreshes)

Airtable builders have always designed apps for the people who use them. But AI agents are increasingly the ones reading the schema, querying

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Welcome to the June 2026 edition of The Airtable Effect — a monthly roundup of what’s new, what’s inspiring, and what’s possible with Airtable. Whether you're an everyday builder, a certified pro, or just getting started, this newsletter is for you.

In each rendition of the newsletter, we’ll bring you:

• New product and program launches and updates
• The latest educational content from Airtable Academy
• Highlights from the Airtable Community
• Upcoming events you won’t want to miss

You can find The Airtable Effect every month:

• In your inbox (are you opted into marketing emails?)
• On LinkedIn (make sure to subscribe to this newsletter!)
• In the Airtable Community (check the Onboarding Resources section)

Let’s take a look back at what happened in Airtable last month.

New This Month: The Agentic Systems Design Certification (+ two certification refreshes)

Airtable builders have always designed apps for the people who use them. But AI agents are increasingly the ones reading the schema, querying records, and taking action -- and the apps that work best for agents look different than the apps built for humans alone.

We're introducing the Agentic Systems Design Certification to validate the skills builders need to design Airtable systems where AI agents are first-class operators.

The certification covers:

• Agent-first schema design — naming, normalization, field types, and field descriptions that agents can read reliably
• Multi-agent orchestration — pipelines, parallel specialists, hub-and-spoke, and review-loop patterns
• The full AI toolkit — Field Agents, AI actions in automations, Omni, and MCP-connected external assistants, and when to reach for each
• Production reliability — state machines, idempotency, and the deterministic backbone that keeps agent-operated systems trustworthy
• AI administration, prompt engineering, validation patterns, and more.

Two more updates to our certification program worth knowing about:

• 🔁 Builder Certification (Update) — Updated questions now span the full Airtable toolkit—data modeling, linked records, automations, interfaces, and AI-powered features—so the exam reflects how Airtable works today. Ideal whether you're certifying for the first time or renewing.
• 🔁 AI-First Foundations Certification (Rebrand) — The AI App Builder certification is now AI-First Foundations. Same construct, sharper name. If you're earlier in your journey with AI, this is the natural place to start.

Explore all certifications here →

Say Hello to Airtable Builder Crews (+ and We're Going IRL!)

Our community groups have a new name that finally fits: Airtable Builder Crews. 🎉 Same tight-knit groups of builders showing up for each other -- now with a name that sounds like something you'd actually want to be part of.

Airtable Builder Crews are member-led communities organized around a city, industry, language, or region, run by volunteer leads who plan events and keep the conversation going. And here's the part we're most excited about: Crews are going in-person. Think hands-on workshops, casual meetups, and show-and-tell sessions in cities around the world—the kind of learning that's hard to replicate on a screen. (And don’t worry, virtual isn't going anywhere either—Crews like AI, Marketing, Media and Entertainment, EDUsers, and more will keep bringing builders together virtually & across time zones.)

Want to speak, help run an event, or start a Crew in your city? We'd love to hear from you.

Learn more (+start a Builder Crew in your city!) here →

Airspace LA Recap: Meet Our Four Buildathon Winners

ICYMI: Airspace LA brought builders together for a night of collaboration, experimentation, and building with Airtable AI -- turning ambitious ideas into working demos in just a few hours. Four standout projects took home the win.

• 🎬 Automated Content — James Nevada built an Automated Marketing Video Asset Management System that feeds brand guidelines into a multi-step AI pipeline to generate everything from concept art to channel-ready social copy.
• 📂 Attachment Intelligence — Jason B. created a multi-agent system that turns disconnected documents and PDFs into structured data, surfacing cross-product insights automatically.
• 📊 AI Research — Matthew R. showcased an AI-powered Influencer Analytics tool pairing a polished Canvas dashboard with a research agent that crawls the web to benchmark performance against competitors.
• 🤖 AI in Automations — Enrique Torreblanca developed a multi-agent control system for marketing briefs with a self-improvement loop that watches agent confidence and suggests prompt revisions when quality dips.

Congrats to our winners—and thank you to every builder who shared ideas and pushed their projects further.

Get the full recap from Airspace LA here →

Change Makers: Building a Live-Action Game Entirely in Airtable with Nick Akins

Change Makers is our recurring series highlighting customer stories and builders making an incredible impact with Airtable.

This month's Change Maker is Nicholas Akins (@NickEFSJ), a Manufacturing Systems Engineer at E. F. San Juan and an Airtable MVP—who built a fully playable roguelike game entirely inside Airtable.

For the Airtable Hackathon, Nick created "Last Admin Standing," a Grand Jury–winning game that treats Airtable as something that actively runs a system instead of just storing data. It's built from three parts: data tables for players, enemies, and config; a custom interface running the game's script; and AI field agents in a "VisualEntities" table that generate art direction, color palettes, and motion notes on the fly.

The magic? None of it is static. With a button press or a scheduled automation, those AI fields regenerate—so the game looks and feels different every single run, with no outside integrations required. Even better, the patterns Nick discovered are already reshaping how he's building a full end-to-end ERP system for his company: using Airtable as a control surface, generating structured outputs with AI, and treating records as active inputs instead of passive storage.

Read the full Change Maker spotlight →

Available In AI Labs: Field Agent 3rd Party Connectors

Your Field Agents just got a lot more connected. We're rolling out 13 new 3rd-party connectors—so your agents can read and write data from the tools your team already uses, right inside Airtable.

Field Agents now support 16 integrations, including: Gmail · Outlook · Google Calendar · Google Sheets · Microsoft Teams · Notion · Zoom · Linear · HubSpot · GitHub · Amplitude · People Data Labs · Zendesk (plus existing Google Drive, OneDrive, and JIRA Cloud).

A few workflows builders are already running:

• 📋 Daily briefing: pull the day's meetings and docs from Google Calendar and Drive to generate prep notes for every call.
• 🚀 Launch readiness: combine Linear issues, a Notion PRD, and open Zendesk requests into a weekly launch-readiness scorecard.
• 🎟️ Escalation briefs: when a Zendesk ticket is escalated, assemble support history, Amplitude usage data, and related Linear issues into one context brief.

Workspace admins can turn this on by enabling AI Labs in Account > Workspace Settings, then adding connectors to a Field Agent from the Tools menu. Available now in AI Labs for Free and Teams customers, with Business and Enterprise Scale to follow.

Learn more here →

Community Event Calendar

We’re always planning an exciting calendar of live events, user group hangouts, and office hours. Here’s what’s coming up:

June 10 | NYC Builder Bash
Join us for a happy hour with local Airtable builders to enjoy drinks, snacks, and the wildest Airtable stories in NYC. Come for the community, stay for the stories!
(Register here →)

June 18 | Dublin Crew Meet Up
Join us for a casual evening of drinks and small bites with other Airtable builders in Dublin. Whether you're a longtime power user or just getting started, this is a low-key space to finally talk Airtable with people who actually get it.
(Register here →)

June 18 | Admin Crew: Governance without killing innovation
Join the Airtable Admin Crew to dig into the governance decisions that actually matter and learn how to build a structure that scales without slowing everyone down.
(Register here →)

June 23 | Seattle Crew Meet Up
Join us for a casual evening of drinks and small bites with other Airtable builders in Seattle.
(Register here →)

June 24 + 25 | DACH Builder Crew: Scaling Operations with Airtable
Join us to learn how enterprise teams can create one governed source of truth while still giving regional teams the flexibility they need to move quickly. (Register for the English → or German → session)

June 25 | NPO Crew: Build Donor Reports You're Actually Proud Of
Learn how to design a reporting system that connects your impact data, stories, and financials in one place.
(Register here →)

June 26 | Ho Chi Mihn City Crew: Builder Meet Up
Finance teams in Ho Chi Minh City are building smarter operations on Airtable, and this is your chance to see how.
(Register here →)

View all upcoming events →

Academy Updates

We’re always evolving Airtable Academy to reflect your feedback and learning goals:

New Launches

NEW: Agentic AI Fluency Learning Path

In this two course learning path, you’ll learn how to design and build multi-agent systems. Orchestrating Agent Teams explains how to design, deploy, and manage custom agent teams.Build and Optimize Agent-Ready Airtable apps explains how to build and optimize Airtable apps that are ready for AI agents.

Explore the learning path →

NEW: Agentic Systems Design Certification
AI agents don't just use your Airtable apps, they query records, run automations, and make decisions inside them. The new Agentic Systems Design Certification validates the skills builders need to design agent-ready Airtable systems: from agent-first schema design and multi-agent orchestration to production reliability patterns like state machines and idempotency.

Get certified →

Content Updates

Airtable Builder Certification (2026 Refresh)
The Builder Certification has been refreshed with updated questions covering the full Airtable builder toolkit from data modeling and linked records to automations, interfaces, and AI-powered features. Whether you're certifying for the first time or renewing, the updated exam reflects how Airtable works today.

Take the certification →

Explore the Academy →

Did you find the Airtable Effect helpful? Any suggestions or recommendations for future editions? Want to learn more about the Airtable Academy and/or Community programs?

Or do you want to be featured in an upcoming rendition? Reach out on LinkedIn and/or on the Airtable Community (@kev) and show us what you've built in Airtable!

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Hi everyone,

I'm Akshar Patel (AP), a Product Manager here at Airtable. Today I'm sharing a new way to edit records on record detail pages in interfaces: Form editing.

Until now, record detail pages supported inline editing where users click into fields and update values directly on the page. That works great for quick updates, but if you've ever wanted more structure around how data gets changed, things like validation rules, a controlled set of fields, a clear submit action, inline editing doesn't quite get you there.

Now it can.

Introducing Form editing for record detail pages

When you enable Form editing, an "Edit" button appears on the record detail page. When a user clicks it, a customizable form opens in a modal. They make their changes, and submit them all at once.

The record detail page itself stays read-only — all editing happens through the form. This gives you full control over the editing experience.

Why this matters

• Data validation: Set rules that submitted values must meet before the update goes through. No more chasing down bad data after the fact.
• Structured editing: Show only the fields that matter for a given workflow, in the order that makes sense.
• Sync writeback support: Pair form editing with external sync sources that support writeback.
• Clearer user experience: Instead of a page full of editable fields, users see a clean record view with a single action to make changes.

How to enable it

• Open your interface in edit mode
• Navigate to a record detail page
• Select the record container by clicking its main area
• In the properties panel, scroll to User actions
• Under Edit fields, select Form
• Confirm the change in the dialog that appears

Once enabled, you can customize the edit form by clicking on the "Edit" button element and configuring its fields, layout, and validation rules in the properties panel.

How it relates to existing editing options

The Edit fields control now has three options:

Mode What happens Off All fields are read-only Inline Users edit fields directly on the page (you can still set individual fields to read-only) Form An "Edit" button opens a modal form and the record detail page itself becomes read-only

These modes are mutually exclusive; you choose one per record detail page.

A few things to know

• Permissions still apply: users need editor access on the underlying base to make changes, regardless of editing mode
• Switching modes shows a confirmation so you don't accidentally change your page's editing behavior
• Inline editing remains disabled for externally synced tables (like Jira or Salesforce syncs), but Form editing can work with sync sources that support writeback

We'd love your feedback

We're especially interested in hearing:

• What workflows are you planning to use Form editing for?
• What kinds of validation rules would be most useful?
• How do you see yourself choosing between Inline and Form for different pages?

Drop a comment below.

Thanks for being a part of this community!

— AP

Original source

Welcome to the May 2026 edition of The Airtable Effect —a monthly roundup of what’s new, what’s inspiring, and what’s possible with Airtable. Whether you're an everyday builder, a certified pro, or just getting started, this newsletter is for you.

In each rendition of the newsletter, we’ll bring you:

• New product and program launches and updates
• The latest educational content from Airtable Academy
• Highlights from the Airtable Community
• Upcoming events you won’t want to miss

You can find The Airtable Effect every month:

• In your inbox (are you opted into marketing emails?)
• On LinkedIn (make sure to subscribe to this newsletter!)
• In the Airtable Community (check the Onboarding Resources section)

Let’s take a look back at what happened in Airtable last month.

🛠️ Build with Us at #BOSTechWeek

Boston builders, this one's for you. Airtable is hosting a hands-on AI Hackathon as part of Boston Tech Week, and we'd love for you to join.

Spend the afternoon with fellow builders, operators, and founders prototyping AI-powered workflows in Airtable. Teams will design solutions that automate decisions, streamline operations, and power new workflows across product, marketing, operations, and startups, then demo what they built to the group.

Whether you're an operator scaling internal tools, a founder building your stack from scratch, or an Airtable enthusiast looking to level up your AI skills, you'll leave with new ideas, practical applications, and fresh connections across the builder community.

📍 Part of #BOSTechWeek

🎨 AI-Generated Custom Elements: Now GA for Everyone

After a year in AI Labs, custom interface elements are generally available across every Airtable plan.

Describe what you need in plain language and Omni builds a fully custom element tailored to your workflow, with no templates or coding required. Since the beta, we've shipped multi-table support, version history, and the ability to revert and undo changes directly in Omni.

A few elements builders are already shipping:

• 🧱 3D asset review with annotated feedback
• 🎨 Interactive whiteboards connected to your base
• 🕸️ Network graphs that map record relationships
• 🌳 Dynamic, clickable org charts

Want full control? Edit the generated source in your browser, download it, or build from scratch with the Interface Extensions SDK (Teams, Business, and Enterprise Scale). Bonus: creating or updating AI-generated elements doesn't use AI credits.

🤖 Claude is where you think. Airtable is where you execute.

Connect Airtable to Claude and turn AI conversations into real projects, structured data, and automated workflows your team can build on.

Connect Airtable to Claude and turn AI conversations into real projects, structured data, and automated workflows your team can build on. With Airtable MCP, you're up and running in two clicks: no API keys, no configuration files.

Over 1,000 Community members joined our live walkthrough to see exactly how Claude and Airtable work together.

Try any of the Claude prompts below to read, write, and analyze your Airtable bases:

• Identify which tasks in my project tracker are slipping
• Summarize what my team shipped this month
• Audit my base and suggest 5 improvements

No API keys. No configuration files.

🤖 Change Makers: Transforming Customer Feedback Management With Stefanie Lukner

Change Makers is our recurring series highlighting customer stories and builders making an incredible impact with Airtable.

This month's Change Maker is Dr. Stefanie Lukner, Global Head of Digital Products at Waterdrop, who replaced a broken Google Sheets workflow with a dedicated Airtable app that manages every negative NPS response end-to-end.

Before Airtable, Waterdrop's detractor management ran on fragile spreadsheets with broken formulas, no permission controls, and inconsistent handling across markets. Stefanie's team built an Airtable app that automates the full workflow using AI in three key ways:

• Survey submissions sync automatically into the base, with AI translating free-text feedback into English
• AI-driven categorization maps every comment to a primary complaint driver and attributes feedback to the right product using order data
• Cases route to Customer Success for structured follow-up, eliminating manual tracking entirely

The results: ~6 hours saved every week, every negative response captured and handled consistently in a single workflow, and clearer visibility into root causes for both Customer Success and Product teams. The full post also includes the exact AI prompt her team uses for issue categorization, ready to copy into your own apps.

📅 Community Event Calendar

We’re always planning an exciting calendar of live events, user group hangouts, and office hours. Here’s what’s coming up:

May 7 | From Intake to Invoice: How One Audio Team Runs Everything in Airtable
Virtual · 11:00 am PT · We're pulling back the curtain on how one builder manages her entire audio engineering team inside Airtable.

May 8 | Claude + Airtable for Marketing
Virtual · 12:00 pm PT · Curious about Claude + Airtable for marketing? In this session, we'll cover it live.

May 12 | Airspace LA
In-person · Los Angeles, CA · 8:00 am PT · Airtable's biggest customer event of the year. Keynote, Buildathon, breakouts, and 300+ builders.

May 12 | Introducing Claude Connector for Airtable
Virtual · 10:00 am BST (EMEA) · Alex McDonnell (Director, Product Marketing) and Emily Houlihan (Product Manager) demo how to connect Claude and Airtable to turn ideas into execution.

May 14 | The Art of the Ask: Airtable, Claude, & Prompting that Actually Works
Virtual · 11:00 am PST · This session breaks down what’s actually working when it comes to prompting agents to run your workflows.

May 28 | Build with Airtable AI: Workflow Hackathon #BOSTechWeek
In-person · 1:00 pm EST · Join other Builders and founders using Airtable for an interactive Airtable AI Hackathon, where participants will design and prototype AI-powered workflows in Airtable.

May 28 | Product Operations Summit Amsterdam
In-person · Amsterdam, NL · 8:00 am CEST · Exclusive CPO network covering the biggest challenges in scaling strategy, aligning teams, and driving AI-era innovation.

June 2 | Build Agent-first Companies with Airtable #NYTechWeek
In-person · NYC · 3:00 - 6:00 pm EST · Join Airtable for a fireside chat and agent building challenge! You'll get hands on with Hyperagent, Airtable's platform for building and deploying fleets of agents.

June 4 | Airtable BuilderBase Chicago
In-person · Chicago, IL · 2:30 pm CT · Join us in Chicago to learn how to streamline your workflows through AI-powered operations.

🧑‍🏫 Academy Updates

AI is essential for interface users and builders alike, so it should live where you're already learning.

This past month, we wove AI directly into our two core role-based learning paths, Introduction to Airtable and Builder Essentials, instead of keeping it siloed in standalone courses. You'll now find Field Agents, AI in automations, and AI elements in interfaces as native parts of the curriculum you're already taking.

New Launches

Using AI in Automations: A new lesson in the Introduction to Airtable Automation course showing how to add AI-powered steps to your automations — generate text, categorise records, and route workflows using AI actions.

AI in Airtable: A new lesson providing a bird's-eye view of AI features across the platform — from Field Agents to automations — giving builders a foundation for working with AI in Airtable.

What are Field Agents: A new lesson introducing Field Agents — AI-powered fields that watch for changes and automatically generate summaries, categories, and extracted data right in your records.

AI Elements in Interfaces: A new lesson covering how AI capabilities show up in Airtable's interface designer — helping builders understand where to surface AI-generated content in their apps.

AI at Work: A Beginner’s Guide: A new course introducing the mindset, vocabulary, and a concrete first step to start building real AI skills at work.

Orchestrating Agent Teams: A new course showing how to design, deploy, and manage custom agent teams — helping builders achieve their organizational goals.

Content Updates

The Agentic Deep Dive has been become the Field Agent Deep Dive. We’ve renamed this learning path and the courses within to make it easier for users to navigate courses by field agent capability and get their AI use-cases unlocked faster.

🚀 Product Launch Recap

Catch up on the latest features that launched this month—built to save you time, streamline workflows, and unlock new use cases.

✅ Custom Elements with Omni

Omni now generates fully custom interface elements from a plain-language prompt, so your team can build exactly the visualization or interaction your workflow needs. Go beyond standard Airtable components to create tailored experiences like 3D asset viewers, network graphs, org charts, and interactive whiteboards.

Use cases:

• Operations teams build custom warehouse layout views to track inventory placement in real time
• Marketing teams visualize campaign performance with branded dashboards tailored to each channel
• HR teams create interactive org charts that update automatically as headcount and reporting lines change

✅ Claude MCP Connector

Connect Airtable to Claude and ask about your data in plain language without leaving the conversation. Claude searches your bases, looks up records, browses your interfaces, and helps you take action on what it finds, bringing your operational data directly into the AI tools your team already uses.

Use cases:

• Customer success managers pull account health details and draft renewal outreach in a single Claude thread
• Product teams query roadmap bases to summarize shipped features for stakeholder updates
• Finance teams ask Claude to surface budget line items and flag variances against quarterly targets

✅ Admin Panel UX Improvements

The admin panel got a major refresh focused on speed and ease of navigation, including resizable sidesheets, paginated browsing, faster cached data on the Users page, and immediate search availability during load. A new Library section groups Managed Apps, Components, Data Sets, and HyperDB together, making it faster for admins to govern large workspaces.

Use cases:

• IT admins search and filter thousands of users while data loads in the background
• Workspace owners audit Managed Apps and Components from a single Library view during quarterly access reviews
• Security teams paginate through user lists and export filtered results for compliance reporting

✅ Skills for Airtable MCP

Skills give your AI agent the context it needs to work more accurately with Airtable. The airtable-overview skill teaches your agent how bases, tables, and fields relate, while the airtable-filters skill sharpens record retrieval so queries return the right results more reliably.

Use cases:

• Operations teams deploy agents that pull accurate cross-table reports without manual prompt engineering
• Customer success agents retrieve filtered account records to answer support questions in seconds
• Product teams power internal copilots that reason over complex base structures with fewer errors

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Welcome to the May 2026 edition of The Airtable Effect —a monthly roundup of what’s new, what’s inspiring, and what’s possible with Airtable. Whether you're an everyday builder, a certified pro, or just getting started, this newsletter is for you.

In each rendition of the newsletter, we’ll bring you:

• New product and program launches and updates
• The latest educational content from Airtable Academy
• Highlights from the Airtable Community
• Upcoming events you won’t want to miss

You can find The Airtable Effect every month:

• In your inbox (are you opted into marketing emails?)
• On LinkedIn (make sure to subscribe to this newsletter!)
• In the Airtable Community (check the Onboarding Resources section)

Let’s take a look back at what happened in Airtable last month.

🛠️ Build with Us at #BOSTechWeek

Boston builders, this one's for you. Airtable is hosting a hands-on AI Hackathon as part of Boston Tech Week, and we'd love for you to join.

Spend the afternoon with fellow builders, operators, and founders prototyping AI-powered workflows in Airtable. Teams will design solutions that automate decisions, streamline operations, and power new workflows across product, marketing, operations, and startups, then demo what they built to the group.

Whether you're an operator scaling internal tools, a founder building your stack from scratch, or an Airtable enthusiast looking to level up your AI skills, you'll leave with new ideas, practical applications, and fresh connections across the builder community.

📍 Part of #BOSTechWeek
Register here →

🎨 AI-Generated Custom Elements: Now GA for Everyone

After a year in AI Labs, custom interface elements are generally available across every Airtable plan.

Describe what you need in plain language and Omni builds a fully custom element tailored to your workflow, with no templates or coding required. Since the beta, we've shipped multi-table support, version history, and the ability to revert and undo changes directly in Omni.

A few elements builders are already shipping:

• 🧱 3D asset review with annotated feedback
• 🎨 Interactive whiteboards connected to your base
• 🕸️ Network graphs that map record relationships
• 🌳 Dynamic, clickable org charts

Want full control? Edit the generated source in your browser, download it, or build from scratch with the Interface Extensions SDK (Teams, Business, and Enterprise Scale). Bonus: creating or updating AI-generated elements doesn't use AI credits.
Read the full announcement →

🤖 Claude is where you think. Airtable is where you execute.

Connect Airtable to Claude and turn AI conversations into real projects, structured data, and automated workflows your team can build on.

Connect Airtable to Claude and turn AI conversations into real projects, structured data, and automated workflows your team can build on. With Airtable MCP, you're up and running in two clicks: no API keys, no configuration files.

Over 1,000 Community members joined our live walkthrough to see exactly how Claude and Airtable work together.
Catch the recording →

Try any of the Claude prompts below to read, write, and analyze your Airtable bases:

• Identify which tasks in my project tracker are slipping
• Summarize what my team shipped this month
• Audit my base and suggest 5 improvements

No API keys. No configuration files.
Connect to Claude and go →

🤖 Change Makers: Transforming Customer Feedback Management With Stefanie Lukner

Change Makers is our recurring series highlighting customer stories and builders making an incredible impact with Airtable.
This month's Change Maker is Dr. Stefanie Lukner, Global Head of Digital Products at Waterdrop, who replaced a broken Google Sheets workflow with a dedicated Airtable app that manages every negative NPS response end-to-end.

Before Airtable, Waterdrop's detractor management ran on fragile spreadsheets with broken formulas, no permission controls, and inconsistent handling across markets. Stefanie's team built an Airtable app that automates the full workflow using AI in three key ways:

• Survey submissions sync automatically into the base, with AI translating free-text feedback into English
• AI-driven categorization maps every comment to a primary complaint driver and attributes feedback to the right product using order data
• Cases route to Customer Success for structured follow-up, eliminating manual tracking entirely

The results: ~6 hours saved every week, every negative response captured and handled consistently in a single workflow, and clearer visibility into root causes for both Customer Success and Product teams. The full post also includes the exact AI prompt her team uses for issue categorization, ready to copy into your own apps.
Read the full Change Maker spotlight →

📅 Community Event Calendar

We’re always planning an exciting calendar of live events, user group hangouts, and office hours. Here’s what’s coming up:

May 7 | From Intake to Invoice: How One Audio Team Runs Everything in Airtable
Virtual · 11:00 am PT · We're pulling back the curtain on how one builder manages her entire audio engineering team inside Airtable.
Register →

May 8 | Claude + Airtable for Marketing
Virtual · 12:00 pm PT · Curious about Claude + Airtable for marketing? In this session, we'll cover it live.
Register →

May 12 | Airspace LA
In-person · Los Angeles, CA · 8:00 am PT · Airtable's biggest customer event of the year. Keynote, Buildathon, breakouts, and 300+ builders.
Request your spot →

May 12 | Introducing Claude Connector for Airtable
Virtual · 10:00 am BST (EMEA) · Alex McDonnell (Director, Product Marketing) and Emily Houlihan (Product Manager) demo how to connect Claude and Airtable to turn ideas into execution.
Register →

May 14 | The Art of the Ask: Airtable, Claude, & Prompting that Actually Works
Virtual · 11:00 am PST · This session breaks down what’s actually working when it comes to prompting agents to run your workflows.
Register →

May 28 | Build with Airtable AI: Workflow Hackathon #BOSTechWeek
In-person · 1:00 pm EST · Join other Builders and founders using Airtable for an interactive Airtable AI Hackathon, where participants will design and prototype AI-powered workflows in Airtable.
Register →

May 28 | Product Operations Summit Amsterdam
In-person · Amsterdam, NL · 8:00 am CEST · Exclusive CPO network covering the biggest challenges in scaling strategy, aligning teams, and driving AI-era innovation.
Register →

June 2 | Build Agent-first Companies with Airtable #NYTechWeek
In-person · NYC · 3:00 - 6:00 pm EST · Join Airtable for a fireside chat and agent building challenge!
You'll get hands on with Hyperagent, Airtable's platform for building and deploying fleets of agents.
Register →

June 4 | Airtable BuilderBase Chicago
In-person · Chicago, IL · 2:30 pm CT · Join us in Chicago to learn how to streamline your workflows through AI-powered operations.
Register →

View all upcoming events →

🧑‍🏫 Academy Updates

AI is essential for interface users and builders alike, so it should live where you're already learning.

This past month, we wove AI directly into our two core role-based learning paths, Introduction to Airtable and Builder Essentials, instead of keeping it siloed in standalone courses. You'll now find Field Agents, AI in automations, and AI elements in interfaces as native parts of the curriculum you're already taking.

🆕 New Launches

Using AI in Automations: A new lesson in the Introduction to Airtable Automation course showing how to add AI-powered steps to your automations — generate text, categorise records, and route workflows using AI actions.
Explore the course →

AI in Airtable: A new lesson providing a bird's-eye view of AI features across the platform — from Field Agents to automations — giving builders a foundation for working with AI in Airtable.
Explore the course →

What are Field Agents: A new lesson introducing Field Agents — AI-powered fields that watch for changes and automatically generate summaries, categories, and extracted data right in your records.
Explore the course →

AI Elements in Interfaces: A new lesson covering how AI capabilities show up in Airtable's interface designer — helping builders understand where to surface AI-generated content in their apps.
Explore the course →

AI at Work: A Beginner’s Guide: A new course introducing the mindset, vocabulary, and a concrete first step to start building real AI skills at work.
Explore the course →

Orchestrating Agent Teams: A new course showing how to design, deploy, and manage custom agent teams — helping builders achieve their organizational goals.
Explore the course →

🔁 Content Updates

The Agentic Deep Dive has been become the Field Agent Deep Dive. We’ve renamed this learning path and the courses within to make it easier for users to navigate courses by field agent capability and get their AI use-cases unlocked faster.
Explore the Academy →

🚀 Product Launch Recap

Catch up on the latest features that launched this month—built to save you time, streamline workflows, and unlock new use cases.

✅ Custom Elements with Omni
Omni now generates fully custom interface elements from a plain-language prompt, so your team can build exactly the visualization or interaction your workflow needs. Go beyond standard Airtable components to create tailored experiences like 3D asset viewers, network graphs, org charts, and interactive whiteboards.
Use cases:

• Operations teams build custom warehouse layout views to track inventory placement in real time
• Marketing teams visualize campaign performance with branded dashboards tailored to each channel
• HR teams create interactive org charts that update automatically as headcount and reporting lines change

✅ Claude MCP Connector
Connect Airtable to Claude and ask about your data in plain language without leaving the conversation. Claude searches your bases, looks up records, browses your interfaces, and helps you take action on what it finds, bringing your operational data directly into the AI tools your team already uses.
Use cases:

• Customer success managers pull account health details and draft renewal outreach in a single Claude thread
• Product teams query roadmap bases to summarize shipped features for stakeholder updates
• Finance teams ask Claude to surface budget line items and flag variances against quarterly targets

✅ Admin Panel UX Improvements
The admin panel got a major refresh focused on speed and ease of navigation, including resizable sidesheets, paginated browsing, faster cached data on the Users page, and immediate search availability during load. A new Library section groups Managed Apps, Components, Data Sets, and HyperDB together, making it faster for admins to govern large workspaces.
Use cases:

• IT admins search and filter thousands of users while data loads in the background
• Workspace owners audit Managed Apps and Components from a single Library view during quarterly access reviews
• Security teams paginate through user lists and export filtered results for compliance reporting

✅ Skills for Airtable MCP
Skills give your AI agent the context it needs to work more accurately with Airtable. The airtable-overview skill teaches your agent how bases, tables, and fields relate, while the airtable-filters skill sharpens record retrieval so queries return the right results more reliably.
Use cases:

• Operations teams deploy agents that pull accurate cross-table reports without manual prompt engineering
• Customer success agents retrieve filtered account records to answer support questions in seconds
• Product teams power internal copilots that reason over complex base structures with fewer errors

View “What’s new in Airtable” →

Did you find the Airtable Effect helpful? Any suggestions or recommendations for future editions? Want to learn more about the Airtable Academy and/or Community programs?
Or do you want to be featured in an upcoming rendition? Reach out on LinkedIn and/or on the Airtable Community (@kev) and show us what you've built in Airtable!

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Hi everyone, I'm Akshar Patel (AP), a Product Manager here at Airtable. As we close out Q1, I wanted to share a few quality of life improvements we've been working on. These are the kinds of updates that make your Airtable experience meaningfully better every day.

Comment Resolution & File Attachments

Earlier this quarter we launched the ability to resolve comments and attach files to comments on records. Now, we're bringing those same capabilities to our proofing viewer (attachments set to “versions” mode). If your team reviews creative assets in Airtable, you can now resolve comments and attach files directly within the attachment viewer keeping all your feedback organized and actionable right where the review happens.

Date Dependencies Auto-Calculate Start Date

For my fellow date dependency fans, we've updated the date calculation logic for Fixed dependency mode to auto-calculate the Start Date of a record when its predecessor is selected. As soon as a predecessor is linked to a record the start date will be calculated as the next valid day. No more manually setting start dates every time you link a predecessor. We also added the ability to set a default value on Duration fields, which means end dates can now be auto-calculated as well when a predecessor is added.

Grid View in Dashboards

You can now add a grid view directly into Interface dashboard layouts, right alongside your charts, timelines, kanban boards, and other elements. This is especially helpful when you need to freeze columns on super wide grid elements.

Prevent Inline Select Option Creation

Builders can now prevent end users from adding new options to single and multi select fields inline on List and Grid interface pages. This gives you more control over your data and your carefully curated dropdown options stay exactly the way you set them up.

Reorder Linked Records Without Enabling Link/Unlink

We've added a new setting to Linked Records (in Card style) that lets end users reorder records without needing link/unlink to be turned on. Previously, the only way to allow users to reorder Linked Records was to also enable link/unlink. Now builders can separate those permissions and give users the flexibility to rearrange without the risk of accidentally unlinking records.

Linked Records with Conditions Work in Pre-fill Form Links

Prefilled form links now support Linked Record fields that have selection conditions set. If you've been using selection conditions to control which records can be linked, those same conditions will now be respected when a form is opened via a pre-fill link.

We're going to keep releasing quality of life improvements throughout the year. If there's something that's been bugging you, drop it in the comments.

Thanks for being part of this community!

~AP

AP@Airtable

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Welcome to the April 2026 edition of The Airtable Effect

Welcome to the April 2026 edition of The Airtable Effect —a monthly roundup of what’s new, what’s inspiring, and what’s possible with Airtable. Whether you're an everyday builder, a certified pro, or just getting started, this newsletter is for you.

In each rendition of the newsletter, we’ll bring you:

• New product and program launches and updates
• The latest educational content from Airtable Academy
• Highlights from the Airtable Community
• Upcoming events you won’t want to miss

You can find The Airtable Effect every month:

• In your inbox (are you opted into marketing emails?)
• On LinkedIn (make sure to subscribe to this newsletter!)
• In the Airtable Community (check the Onboarding Resources section)

Let’s take a look back at what happened in Airtable last month.

🤖 Airtable is live in the Claude Connector directory

Connect Airtable to Claude and turn AI conversations into real projects, structured data, and automated workflows your team can build on.

With Airtable MCP, you’re up and running with a connection to Claude in just two clicks: no API keys and no configuration required.

With a connection to Claude, you can ask questions, create and update records, and analyze your data—all through conversation. Use the data in Airtable as input to the work you're doing in Claude, like:

• Content strategy: Claude runs deep research on your niche, then suggests fresh content ideas. Airtable brings each piece to life with interactive pages and infographics.
• Competitive analysis: Claude scans for intel from web and internal sources. Trusted competitive resources stay fresh in Airtable, complete with custom visuals.
• Campaign readiness: Claude reads your Airtable campaign tracker, traces blocking chains, checks team availability via Google Calendar, and writes a readiness report.
• Product feedback analysis: Airtable captures rich customer feedback including images and unstructured text. Claude finds the signal and delivers beautiful reports.

Connect to Claude (+ get started) here →

🥇 The first ever Airtable BUILDATHON $50K grand prize winner has been crowned

Last month, hundreds of Airtable builders descended on HALO 28 in New York City for the first-ever Airtable Buildathon, a one-day, high-energy competition where 300+ builders solved real business problems with AI and competed for over $100K in prizes.

The energy was electric. Tables of strangers became teammates. Builders swapped ideas, pressure-tested workflows, and showed in real time that there are no limits to what you can create with Airtable AI. WWE-style championship belts were awarded to bounty winners. Golden tickets were found under chairs. And the AirCoin swag shop was a hit.

🥇 Meet the Builder Who Took Home the $50,000 Grand Prize: Zach Nagin

Zach built an end-to-end creative agency system that wowed our judges, leveraging Airtable AI across field agents, automations, image generation, Omni, and custom interfaces, all in one seamless workflow. The build was so compelling that several internal Airtable teams have already started adapting it into their own workflows.

Huge congrats to all of our bounty winners too — shout out to ​@matthewsk, ​@nas, ​@dnn31, ​@zfried, and Zach Nagin!

See the full Buildathon recap →

🌴 Request your seat at Airspace LA

Mark your calendars — Airspace LA is coming on May 12! 🎉

Airspace LA is a one-day, immersive event for anyone building the future of work with Airtable and AI. Whether you've been shipping agentic workflows since day one or you're just starting to explore what's possible, this is the room you want to be in.

The day features an executive keynotes, live product showcases, ample networking opportunities with other leaders and Airtable builders, and two afternoon tracks to chose from:

• 🛠️ Track 1: Buildathon: Three hours of heads-down build time. Create an end-to-end agentic workflow, compete against fellow builders, and ship something real. Prizes and swag on the line.
• 🎤 Track 2: Customer Studio: Hear from customers leading AI adoption. Deep-dive into real use cases and ask Airtable experts anything.
• ⚡ Closing Keynote, Awards & Happy Hour: Leave with a fresh blueprint for how humans and agents work together

Spots are limited, so make sure to request yours →

🛠️ Change Makers: Streamlining Capital Calls Processing With Sonia Alonso

Change Makers is our recurring series highlighting customer stories and builders making an incredible impact with Airtable.

This month's Change Maker is Sonia Alonso (@Sonia_AV), Investment Operations & Compliance Manager, who used Airtable AI to transform her team's Capital Call process from a 2–3 day manual workflow into same-day execution with full compliance audit trails.

Before Airtable, Sonia's team managed Capital Calls through email chains and manual tracking — creating missed notifications, delayed approvals, and compliance risks at every stage. She built an integrated Capital Call management system in Airtable that leverages AI in two powerful ways:

• Field Agents automatically extract 10 critical data points from uploaded Capital Call PDFs, eliminating 15–20 minutes of manual data entry per call and boosting accuracy
• AI-powered formula fields intelligently generate record IDs, assign the correct CFO based on legal entity, and create dynamic interface URLs for stakeholders

The results speak for themselves: payment processing time dropped from 2–3 working days to same-day, with over 90% of requests handled within one hour. The system now provides centralized notifications, robust audit trails meeting SOX compliance standards, and a single source of truth for all requests.

Check out her app →

🤖 Q2 Airtable MVP Applications Are Open

The Airtable MVP Program recognizes and rewards our most advanced, expert builders and passionate advocates. If you're an advanced Airtable builder, a vocal advocate, or a community leader who loves helping others level up… we want to hear from you!

Apply by April 30th, to join our next cohort of builders shaping how the Airtable community grows and thrives.

MVPs gain exclusive benefits designed to recognize their contributions, enhance their expertise, and support long-term success, including:

• Early visibility and access to new features
• Private AMAs with Airtable leadership
• Free Airtable AI credit packs
• A private MVP space in the Community
• Recognition across Airtable events (and invites to attend and/or speak)
• Exclusive advocacy missions
• Exclusive MVP swag
• And more!

Learn more and apply here →

📅 Community Event Calendar

We’re always planning an exciting calendar of live events, user group hangouts, and office hours. Here’s what’s coming up:

April 16 | Media and Entertainment Forum

Discover how leading media organisations use Airtable AI to power production-ready workflows, streamline content operations, and drive measurable impact across fast-moving teams.

(Register here →)

April 16 | Airtable BuilderBase San Francisco

Walk away with a live Claude + Airtable integration, a personalized AI strategy playbook, and real inspiration from peers who've already moved from AI experiments to AI-powered operations.

(Register here →)

April 21 | Get to Know Airtable: Your AI App Builder

Join Alex McDonnell, Director of Product Marketing, for a session designed for anyone looking to understand what Airtable is and how it works.

(Register here →)

April 22 | New Feature Spotlight: April 2026

Airtable now connects directly to Claude via MCP. Join our product experts for a live walkthrough of what that unlocks, plus the latest updates across AI, app building, and automation.

(Register here →)

April 22 | Airtable AI Forum (München, Germany)

Learn how European brands use Airtable AI to power smarter, faster, and more autonomous workflows.

(Register here →)

April 23 | AI User Group: Claude + Airtable

Claude is changing how teams build in Airtable—this live session shows you exactly how. Join us to see real workflows in action and learn how to automate, generate insights, and build faster with AI.

(Register here →)

April 27 | Airtable MVPs: Exclusive AMA w/ Airtable’s CTO David Azose

Hear directly from David about Airtable's evolving vision, the product roadmap, and how the team is empowering builders like you. Questions submitted in advance through the registration form will be prioritized, so don't wait.

(MVPs, check the MVP group for the event reg page!)

April 29 | Set the Table: Builder Basics

Check out this live session built specifically for people who are just getting started with Airtable. No jargon, no assumptions, just the essentials you need to start building with confidence.

(Register here →)

May 12 | Airspace LA

Join us at Airspace LA, a high-energy, one-day event where you'll connect with fellow builders, hear from executives scaling AI-powered operations, and compete for cash prizes at the Buildathon.

(Request your spot →)

View all upcoming events →

🧑‍🏫 Academy Updates

We’re always evolving Airtable Academy to reflect your feedback and learning goals:

🆕 New Launches

Introduction to Airtable MCP

Learn how to connect AI assistants to your Airtable bases using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) from setup to practical use cases.

Getting Started with App Building

Explore three ways to build apps in Airtable: create with Omni using natural language, build on your own, or start from the App Library. Learn when to use each approach.

🔁 Content Updates

The Data Layer Deep Dive course is now two courses!

We've split this into Data Layer Foundations (importing, organizing, and managing data) and Advanced Data Features (record templates, date dependencies, Sync, and the Enterprise App Library) so you can focus on what's relevant to you.

Explore the Academy →

🚀 Product Launch Recap

Catch up on the latest features that launched this month—built to save you time, streamline workflows, and unlock new use cases.

✅ New Ways to Collaborate on Records

We’ve introduced three powerful upgrades to record-level collaboration: attach files directly to comments, resolve comments to track progress, and search notifications to quickly find what matters. Together, these updates make it easier to manage conversations, feedback, and decisions without leaving Airtable.

Use cases:

• Share design files, contracts, or screenshots directly in comments for faster feedback loops
• Track which feedback has been addressed by resolving comments in review workflows
• Quickly find past discussions, decisions, or mentions using notification search

✅ Sync from Databricks and Snowflake with SQL

You can now sync data from Databricks and Snowflake using custom SQL queries—giving you full control over exactly what data comes into Airtable and how often it updates.

Use cases:

• Pull curated datasets (e.g., filtered customer segments or aggregated metrics) directly into Airtable
• Sync only the most relevant data for dashboards and operational workflows
• Automate reporting pipelines with scheduled syncs from your data warehouse

✅ Custom Interfaces in Packages

Custom interface extensions (blocks) can now be included in managed apps and components, allowing builders to develop and distribute more powerful, reusable app experiences across teams.

Use cases:

• Build and distribute standardized internal tools with advanced custom UI components
• Extend managed apps with tailored functionality for specific team workflows
• Maintain and update shared components centrally while rolling out improvements across all instances

View “What’s new in Airtable” →

Did you find the Airtable Effect helpful? Any suggestions or recommendations for future editions? Want to learn more about the Airtable Academy and/or Community programs?
Or do you want to be featured in an upcoming rendition? Reach out on LinkedIn and/or on the Airtable Community (@kev) and show us what you've built in Airtable!

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AI-generated interface elements are now available to everyone and out of beta

Since launching in AI Labs last year, this feature has become one of the most popular ways builders unlock entirely new ways to visualize, interact with, and act on their Airtable data. It's now fully supported across all plans.

Just describe what you need in plain language, and Omni builds a fully custom element tailored to your exact workflow. Go beyond what's available out of the box to create exactly what your team needs. No templates to configure, no coding required. Since the initial launch, we've shipped major improvements based on your feedback, including multi-table support, version history, and the ability to revert and undo changes directly in Omni.

There are two ways to get started:

1. From Interfaces: Create a new interface, select "Generate with Omni," and either type a prompt describing what you want or choose from Omni's suggestions.
2. From Omni chat: Ask Omni to "Create a custom element" and then describe what you want to build.

Example elements

Here are some of the elements builders have created:

• 3D asset review and feedback: Create and inspect interactive 3D product models right inside your interface, and leave feedback without leaving Airtable. "Create a custom element with a 3D viewer for our product models with annotation and feedback tools."
• Interactive whiteboard: Brainstorm, sketch, and map out ideas on a freeform canvas connected to your base. "Create a custom element with an interactive whiteboard where my team can visually map out project ideas."
• Wedding seating chart: Drag and drop guests around a floorplan, track RSVPs, and manage dietary restrictions all in one visual layout. "Create a custom element with a seating chart where I can assign guests to tables and see their RSVP status."
• Movie tier list: Rank and sort items into custom tiers with a drag-and-drop interface your team (or friends) can debate over. "Create a custom element with a tier list where I can rank movies by dragging them into tiers."
• Network graph: See how records in your base connect to each other as an interactive, explorable web of relationships. "Create a custom element with a network graph that shows how our contacts are connected to companies and deals."
• Org chart: Visualize your team's reporting structure as a dynamic, clickable chart that stays in sync with your people data. "Create a custom element with an org chart from our employees table using the manager field."

You can also build Figma embeds, Google Docs viewers, custom calendars, Gantt-style timelines, and more. Browse examples in our Built with Omni showcase.

To get started, just open Omni and describe the element you want to build. Reference the data you want to use (e.g., projects, tasks, and teams) and Omni will take it from there.

For builders who want more control over the code, you can edit the generated source code directly in your browser or download it. Custom elements can also be built from scratch in your favorite IDE using the Interface Extensions SDK (available for Teams, Business, and Enterprise Scale plans).

Limitations

• AI-generated elements are not viewable on mobile devices. They are supported on web/browser, Mac app, and Windows app.
• Elements can only be used on dashboard or standalone pages, not on blank layout or record detail pages.
• Elements cannot securely store login credentials for third-party services. Any credentials used are visible to all element users.
• Only Anthropic and OpenAI models are supported. Enterprises that have restricted these models will not be able to generate custom elements.

Highlights

• Out of beta and now available to everyone across all plans, no longer requires AI Labs to be enabled.
• Go from idea to a fully working interface element in minutes, just by describing what you need.
• Pull in data from multiple tables so your teams can see the full picture without switching views.
• Creating or updating AI-generated interface elements does not use AI credits.

Links

• Introduction to Custom Interfaces (Airtable Academy)
• Build Custom Interfaces with Omni (Airtable Academy)

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