Airtable Release Notes

Welcome to the August 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 Summer Camp is in session: five days, five product showcases

Airtable's first-ever launch week kicked off Monday: one new product showcase every day, August 10–14, each revealed at 9 AM PT on the Summer Camp hub. The through-line: AI that works across your whole team, with agents and humans building on the same data and workflows — governed at every step.

The week so far:

• Day 1 — Watch an app build itself. The Airtable MCP server now builds interfaces and automations from any AI model — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini. Plus a new skills library that makes any model an Airtable expert.
• Day 2 — Use Airtable without opening Airtable. New MCP form submissions and interface reading: your AI assistant submits data the way your business models it, and reads your live interfaces from whatever tool you already work in.
• Day 3 (today) — A new look for your base. The midweek main event. Watch this space.

Still to come:

• Day 4 — Top speed, full control. The governance day: what it takes to let agents move fast and stay inside your rules.
• Day 5 — Everything you asked for. A full day built from community feature requests. Yes, really.

Every showcase, including video, deep-dive, and what's next, lives on the camp hub.

💬 ICYMI: An r/Airtable AMA with Akshar Patel, Product Manager at Airtable

Last month we hosted Akshar "AP" Patel, Product Manager at Airtable, for a live AMA on r/Airtable… and the questions came in hot.

AP's the PM behind Airtable's recent project and portfolio management upgrades (nested timelines up to 7 levels, reschedule-dependent records that keep your completed work put, and date-dependency metadata now in the public API), so builders showed up with the full range: product roadmap questions, automation puzzles, how to build with AI and Airtable together (Claude, ChatGPT), and the evergreen "how do I make one base do the job of five separate tools?"

True to form, AP took it all, from high-level strategy to all the way down in the weeds. If you missed it live, the full thread is still up on r/Airtable, and it's a great read whether you're wiring up dependencies or just want to hear how the product team thinks. Big thanks to everyone who showed up and asked something.

🎡 Join us at Airspace London on October 21

Your move, London. Airspace is back -- and this time it's heading to Outernet London on October 21 for a one-day, immersive dive into agentic operations.

Airspace London is built for the people deciding what AI looks like inside their organization. Expect a keynote on how agents actually work inside companies (and how to make the leap from experimentation to compounding results), back-to-back customer stories in Customer Studio, a hands-on Airtable AI: Agentic Masterclass where you'll build an agentic workflow with expert guidance, a Networking & Demo Village with Ask-the-Expert consults and the Builder Wall, and a happy hour to close it out.

The venue itself is also half the fun. Outernet sits on Denmark Street (London's old Tin Pan Alley), partly underground between the Northern and Elizabeth Line tunnels, entered through a restored 300-year-old forge.

Seats are limited, and the sooner your team registers, the better.

🛠️ Change Makers: Building an Educational RPG Game with Lisa Bauer

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

This month's Change Maker is Lisa Bauer (@itslisabauer), Operations Manager on the Innovation Team at Link Logistics and winner of the community-led Airtable AI hackathon, who built an educational RPG game entirely in Airtable to help new users fall in love with the platform.

When a new tool rolls out, the resistance is familiar: users sit through hours of training and come out skeptical, distracted, or defensive. Lisa calls that a "situation problem," not a people problem -- a design opportunity.

Inspired by the "Let's Play" theme of the community-led hackathon last Spring, she built Friends with Airtable, a pixel-art RPG where new users explore three locations, complete challenges, and learn core Airtable features alongside characters from Friends.

Her workflow is a study in AI-assisted building: she designed the database (tables, fields, records) herself, used Omni to construct the RPG interface from that data, and leaned on Claude to fine-tune the source code. The result reframes onboarding from a training session into a playful, exploratory experience that leaves new users feeling curious, safe, and joyful.

📅 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:

• Aug 13: Get Started in Airtable |
• Aug 18: Let's Build Live: Getting the most out of Omni |
• Aug 18: Airtable Philly Builder Crew Meetup |
• Aug 19: The Airtable Chicago Builder Shuffle |
• Aug 20: Airtable Toronto Builder Meetup |
• Aug 25: Designing a Center of Excellence |
• Aug 26: Airtable Vancouver Builder Meetup |
• Aug 27: Best Practices for Project Intake |
• Sept 9: Milwaukee Builder Meetup |
• Sept 17: Austin Builder Meetup | Coming soon! Join the crew to be notified
• Sept 25: South East England Meetup | Coming soon! Join the crew to be notified
• Sept 30: Bay Area Builder Crew Meetup |

🚀 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.

✅ Build and Manage Automations with External Agents

You can now create and manage Airtable automations through AI assistants connected to Airtable’s MCP server. Describe the workflow you need in plain language, and an assistant like Claude or ChatGPT can build complex automations with conditions, repeating groups, dynamic values, and more. New automations remain paused until you review and activate them, keeping you in control of what runs.

Use cases:

• Marketing teams can ask an AI assistant to build an automation that routes incoming campaign requests to different owners based on channel, region, and priority.
• Customer Success teams can create workflows that find all open action items for an account and notify the appropriate CSMs ahead of an upcoming renewal.
• Finance teams can describe a multi-step approval workflow that routes expense requests based on amount, department, and approval status without manually configuring every condition.

✅ Ask Airtable Questions Directly from Slack

Bring Airtable into the conversations where your team is already working. By @mentioning Airtable in Slack, you can ask questions about your data or create and update records without switching tools, all while maintaining your existing Airtable permissions.

Use cases:

• Sales leaders can ask for a summary of open opportunities or deals at risk directly from a team channel before a pipeline review.
• Product teams can turn a conversation into a new feature request or update an existing item's status without leaving Slack.
• Operations teams can ask for a summary of new requests, overdue work, or current blockers and immediately take action on the underlying records.

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 AP, a Product Manager at Airtable working on some of our strategic portfolio management features. Over the past several months we've shipped a set of upgrades to timelines, date dependencies, and duration fields that make Airtable a much stronger home for managing real projects and portfolios. Here's what's new, with a few examples of where each one helps.

Nested timelines

Your projects are hierarchies, and now your project timeline is too. You can nest tasks inside other tasks, up to 7 levels deep, then collapse a parent task down to a single bar or expand it to see every sub-task underneath. It's the same nesting and the same depth you already have in List View, so a plan reads the same way wherever you're working.

Say you're building a home. A parent task like Concrete Work can roll up its sub-tasks, and each of those can break down further into the individual steps, like placing rebar, pouring footings, and curing the slab. On the Timeline, collapse Concrete Work to a single bar to give the homeowner the high-level picture, then expand it to walk your crew through every step.

Scheduling that runs itself

If you manage plans with dependencies, this is the big one. Keeping a schedule current used to mean re-dragging a dozen dates by hand every time one thing moved, but now that work mostly takes care of itself, because you set your plan up once and the dependencies keep everything accurate as dates shift.

Here's what's new:

• Auto-schedule from a predecessor: Link a task to the one before it and Airtable sets the start date for you, including any buffer you've set.
• New scheduling logic: When a date changes, the tasks that come after it move and the ones before it stay put, so a single edit won't quietly shift work you've already completed.
• Default dependency type and buffer: Set them once and every new link inherits them, instead of configuring each link by hand.
• Default duration: Give tasks a default length so the scheduler always has something to work with.

On a home build, framing can't start until the foundation has cured, and the plumbing and electrical rough-in can't begin until the roof is on. Link those tasks once, and if the concrete pour slips 2 days, framing, roofing, and every rough-in after it shifts with it automatically, while the work you've already finished stays exactly where it is. You spend your time running the job, not dragging dates around.

And if you run the same kind of project over and over, you don't have to rebuild any of that. Save your standard build as a record template with the dependencies, types and buffers intact, and the next one starts fully wired. You set the start date and the rest falls into place.

Build on it with the API

For the builders here: date-dependency metadata (the dependency type and buffer on each link) is now part of the public API, so you can read and write it programmatically, including from a script action inside an Airtable automation. This means you can migrate an existing schedule from another tool into Airtable with its dependencies intact, instead of rebuilding every link by hand.

Check out the developer documentation here.

Tell us what you think

We're not done, and your feedback shapes what we build next. If you try these out, let us know what's working, what's missing, and what you'd want to see. Drop a reply here or share how you're using them in your own bases.

Thanks for being a part of this community!

— AP

AP@Airtable

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Hey Airtable Community,

We're excited to share that threaded replies are now available across the Airtable Community!

Example in action

What's changed?

You can now reply directly to a specific reply in any topic — not just the original post. This means related back-and-forth stays together instead of getting lost in a long, linear comment thread.

How it works

• Reply to any reply. See a response you want to follow up on? Hit reply on that specific comment to start a thread beneath it.
• Threads nest up to three levels. If you reply to a third-level comment, your response will appear as a second-level reply with an automatic @mention of the person you're responding to so the conversation always stays connected.
• Easy to navigate. Nested replies are sorted oldest-first so the conversation reads naturally, and a "Show more replies" option keeps longer threads tidy.

Why it matters

If you've ever scrolled through a busy topic trying to figure out who was responding to what, this one's for you. Threaded replies make it easier to follow multiple conversations within a single post, ask targeted follow-up questions, and keep discussions organized.

Give it a try

Head to any topic and reply to a specific comment to see it in action!

Sr. Program Manager, Community @ Airtable (DM me to discuss: Community, cute dogs, & SF Bay Area dining scene)

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Hi everyone,

You can now build and manage Airtable automations from AI assistants connected to Airtable’s MCP server. Connect Airtable to Claude, ChatGPT, or another MCP-compatible tool, then describe the workflow you want in plain language. Your assistant can configure the trigger, actions, conditions, and dynamic data for you—without setting up every step by hand.

Agents can build complex workflows with branching logic, repeating groups, and data passed between steps—so you can put AI to work on even your most advanced automations.

What can your agent do?

• Create automations with conditional and repeating groups, including nested groups
• Configure field values across supported triggers and actions
• Use dynamic data and token functions (such as Uppercase and Trim)
• List and review the automations in a base
• Read, update, and delete existing automations

For example, you could ask your assistant to:

• “When a new request is submitted, route it based on priority, assign an owner, and notify the right Slack channel.”
• “Every Monday, find overdue projects and email each project owner a personalized reminder.”
• “Use AI to categorize new feedback, update the record with structured results, and notify the product team.”

Fully supported triggers

• When a record is created
• When a record is updated
• When a record matches conditions
• At a scheduled time
• When a form is submitted
• When a record enters a view

Fully supported actions

• Create record
• Update record
• Find records
• Sort a list
• Send email
• Send a message to Slack
• Send email through Gmail or Outlook
• Generate text with AI
• Generate structured data with AI

How to get started

1. Connect your preferred AI assistant to Airtable’s MCP server.
2. Tell it which base you want to work in and describe the automation you need.
3. Follow the link your assistant provides to review the automation in Airtable.
4. Turn it on when you’re ready.

A few things to know

• New automations created through MCP start paused, so nothing runs until you review and activate them in Airtable.
• Agents can prepare changes to an active automation, but those changes won’t affect the live version until you apply them in Airtable.
• Turning automations on or off still happens in Airtable.
• Custom script actions can’t currently be created or edited through MCP (but we’re actively working on adding this!)
• Actions that use services such as Slack, Gmail, or Outlook require an account already connected to Airtable.
• The fully supported list will continue to grow. Agents can also create many other triggers and actions with a smaller set of configuration options.
• Airtable permissions still apply. Only Base owners and creators can build or modify automations through MCP.

Give it a try, and let us know what you build—or what you’d like agents to support next!

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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

Original source

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
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June 26 | Ho Chi Mihn City Crew: Builder Meet Up
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

🎨 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

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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