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Hi everyone,

We’re rolling out three new AI improvements to make Omni feel much closer to where you already work in Airtable: interfaces, records, and comments.
Here’s what’s new:

• Open Omni from any interface or record detail
  You can now add an “Open Omni” button to any interface page or record detail with prewritten, custom Omni instructions. With one click, viewers can instantly perform complex actions like AI-driven data analysis, generating reports, or creating new records.

  Why this is useful

  • Builders can insert high‑quality, prewritten Omni instructions directly into an interface or record detail.
  • End‑users don’t have to write prompts or configure anything; they just click the button and Omni runs those instructions on the current record or view.
  • This gives teams consistent, repeatable AI output and makes it much easier for more people to benefit from Omni without needing to be prompt experts.

  How to use it

  • In an interface, add a new button element (or edit an existing one)
  • Choose “Open Omni” as the button action
  • Write your custom Omni instructions
  • Save and publish your interface
  • Viewers can now click that button to launch Omni with custom instructions from that page or record detail

• Omni, right where you’re working
  Omni is starting to appear in more places throughout Airtable. This means you don’t have to stop what you’re doing to go open Omni.
  You’ll now see Omni integration directly into common workflows like:

  • Writing or editing long text fields
  • Searching in a view or interface
  • Adding a new table
    For example, when you’re working in a long text field, Omni can help you draft, rewrite, or answer questions about the content as you type.

• Ask Omni questions about a comment thread
  For any record, you can now ask Omni questions specifically about the comments on that record.
  Examples of questions you might ask:

  • “What are the main decisions in this discussion?”
  • “Are there any open questions that still need follow-up?”
  • “Can you summarize the feedback from this thread in 3 bullets?”
    Omni will read the comment thread for that record and answer based on that discussion.

How to use it:

• Open a record with comments
• Ask Omni a question about the comment thread (e.g. “Summarize this conversation”)
• Omni will respond using the information in the comments for that record

We’d love your feedback
Whether you’re on an interface, inside a record, or in the middle of a comment thread, these features are all about making Omni easier to access in the exact moment you need it!
These updates are rolling out now, and we’re excited for you to try them. As always, let us know how they work for you and where you’d like to see Omni show up next.

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Today, we’re excited to announce a new Airtable app for ChatGPT is now available. Users can now bring data and operational context from Airtable into the flow of your ChatGPT conversations. That means you can directly interact with your Airtable data—and make quick updates—without leaving the chat.

What can you do with Airtable in ChatGPT?

Airtable for ChatGPT is ideal for any workflow where you need quick access to structured data to inform decisions and drive action. You can now:

• Reference Airtable data while generating content in ChatGPT: Pull the latest product roadmap updates as you prepare for a meeting, analyze patterns in customer feedback, or understand why your best marketing campaigns are overperforming.
• Give ChatGPT operational context: Instead of switching between tools, bring structured, internal data directly into the conversation to inform your work.
• Make quick updates to Airtable without leaving the chat: Keep your bases current with the changes that matter, right from ChatGPT.

How to get started

• Open settings in ChatGPT: In ChatGPT, open your Settings
• Install Airtable for ChatGPT: Navigate to Apps and install the Airtable app
• Select bases: Choose which Airtable bases or workspaces you want ChatGPT to access
• Point ChatGPT to Airtable: In a chat, select Airtable from the tools dropdown, or type /Airtable

To get started, try one of the sample prompts below:
💡 Tip: Once you have the app installed, type “/Airtable” to let ChatGPT know that you want to connect with Airtable. Useful prompts will depend on what data you have in Airtable.

• Generate a landing page for our product launch using the roadmap content in Airtable

• Here are my notes from stand up. Update the status of all deliverables tracked in Airtable based on what we discussed.

• Draft a pre-read for my executive meeting using all the latest updates from Airtable.

• Bring your data into the chat: ChatGPT will use data and views from Airtable that are relevant to your request

What are the requirements to use this integration?

Airtable plan: All plans (Free and paid)
ChatGPT plan: All plans (Free and paid)
Airtable permissions: Must have edit access or higher in the base
Native or iPaaS: Native

This is all built on the MCP standard, which means that users can connect Airtable to a variety of AI tools. ChatGPT is our first official partnership, but be on the lookout for more in this space.

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Welcome to the December 2025 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.

🎄 The '12 Days of AI Plays' Holiday Challenge

🎄 The '12 Days of AI Plays' Holiday Challenge

This December, we introduced something brand new to the Airtable Community: a holiday build challenge designed to spark creativity, level up AI skills, and bring a little seasonal magic to everyday workflows.

From December 1 through December 12, we published 12 daily AI build challenges, each highlighting a different AI feature or AI use-case inside Airtable. Participants worked inside a festive demo base straight from the North Pole, where Santa’s workshop, the toy factory, Mrs. Claus’ bakery, the gift-wrapping team, and more all ran on Airtable.

Explore the challenges (or jump in and try them yourself) here →

📚 Introducing the new 'Built with Omni' showcase

📚 Introducing the new 'Built with Omni' showcase

We’re excited to launch Built with Omni, a new showcase designed to inspire, educate, and accelerate how you build AI apps on Airtable.

With Built with Omni, users can:

• Browse a growing library of ready-to-use elements from Airtable and the builder community
• Remix examples directly into your own bases to jumpstart new projects
• Submit your own creations for the community to learn from
• Learn effective prompting and development techniques by inspecting real-world code and configurations

And wouldn't you know it... the showcase itself is built as a custom public interface!

Explore the showcase here →

🤩 Featured Change Maker: Automating mentorship management flows with Gaston Viau, Co-Founder & CEO of Boltflow

🤩 Featured Change Maker: Automating mentorship management flows with Gaston Viau, Co-Founder & CEO of Boltflow

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

With his automated mentorship matching flow, Airtable EDUser Group co-leader Gaston demonstrates what’s possible when you combine Airtable’s relational structure with its outstanding AI capabilities.

Check out this recent spotlight to learn how Gaston automated the entire mentor-mentee matching workflow, including moving students through a structured pipeline, filtering mentors by availability and expertise, embedding AI-driven profile analysis and mentor recommendations, and logging the successful matches.

Read the full Change Maker post here →

🛠️ ICYMI: The first Community-led Hackathon (+ winners!)

🛠️ ICYMI: The first Community-led Hackathon (+ winners!)

A massive thank you to Community Top Contributor ​@Mike_AutomaticN for spearheading Airtable’s inaugural Community-led Hackathon last month!

With over 100 sign-ups, the event generated some truly incredible submissions, showcasing the power of Airtable through our community's innovative and creative use cases. Participants competed across three exciting categories:

1. Airtable AI: Recognizing the best use of AI features (selected by ​@alexmcdonnell, Airtable’s Director, Product Marketing)
2. Grand Jury: Selected by our incredible Airtable partners
3. Basefluencer: Awarded to the most-liked video on YouTube

Check out the winning demos here →

📅 Community Event Calendar

📅 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:

January 13 | Set the Table: Builder Basics
New to Airtable? This interactive 45-minute session is the perfect place to start! You’ll get a hands-on introduction to Airtable with guided demos, a chance to build along in real time, and expert answers to your questions.
(Register here →)

View all upcoming events →

🧑🏫 Academy Updates

🧑🏫 Academy Updates

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

• 🔁 Content Updates
  • Introduction to Advanced Automations:
    Throughout this course, you will delve into advanced automation techniques in Airtable. Discover how to incorporate conditional logic, configure conditional actions, and create repeating groups to optimize your workflow automation processes. By the end of this course, you will be equipped to streamline your workflows, enhance team communication, and efficiently handle repetitive tasks using Airtable automation.
  • Data Sets and Advanced Syncs:
    Dive into the world of syncing data with lessons on how to set up two-way sync, multi-source sync and learn about data sets and verified data. By the end of this course, you'll master the configuration of two-way syncs, multi-source syncing, and verified data sets in Airtable, empowering you to centralize data, streamline collaboration, and establish a single source of truth across your organization's workflows.

Explore the Academy →

🚀 Product Launch Recap

🚀 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 Domains: Public Beta
  Give your Airtable experiences a fully branded, professional look by hosting bases on your own domain (e.g., portal.yourcompany.com). External collaborators get a seamless, trust‑building experience while enterprise admins maintain full control over authentication and DNS configuration.

  Use cases:

  • Host client or vendor portals on a branded URL for a polished, professional experience
  • Deliver external‑facing request hubs (e.g., creative briefs, asset libraries, project dashboards) under your organization’s domain
  • Create internal tools (IT help desk, onboarding portals, policy libraries) that look and feel native to your company’s ecosystem

• ✅ Form Sections
  Forms are now easier to organize than ever. Create sections to group forms by workflow, project, or team; collapse them to reduce visual clutter; and drag forms between sections as your processes evolve.

  Use cases:

  • Group campaign request forms by marketing initiative or quarter
  • Organize HR and onboarding workflows by department or employee lifecycle
  • Manage program‑specific forms (intake, surveys, approvals) for complex multi‑team operations

• ✅ Web Prototype Field Agent
  A new field agent, web prototype, turns PRDs, design briefs, content ideas, and campaign concepts into fully functional web prototypes without leaving Airtable. Generate, refine, and test interactive web experiences directly from your documentation and data.

  Use cases:

  • Generate feature prototypes from PRDs for early stakeholder alignment
  • Build clickable interface mockups to validate UX flows before design or dev work begins
  • Create interactive campaign previews or recap pages using real Airtable data
  • Test landing page variations and messaging concepts before committing resources

• ✅ Connect Linked Records to Your Data Library
  You can now link records directly to published datasets in your organization’s Data Library – making it easier to build apps that reference consistent, trusted, fully governed data sources.

  Use cases:

  • Link project or feature records to a centralized product taxonomy managed by operations
  • Reference master CRM datasets (accounts, contacts, segments) without duplicating data
  • Standardize reporting and workflows by connecting apps to company‑wide lookup tables such as regions, OKRs, or product SKUs

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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Introducing Airtable for ChatGPT

Every day, teams juggle between ChatGPT conversations and the operational data that lives in Airtable. They copy and paste context. They switch tabs. They lose momentum in the flow of work.

Today, we're changing that. Together with OpenAI, we're announcing Airtable for ChatGPT, a new way to seamlessly connect Airtable with ChatGPT. As a launch partner for ChatGPT's new business-focused app directory, we're making it possible for teams to reference, analyze, and update their Airtable data without ever leaving ChatGPT.

In our conversations with customers, we constantly hear about how ChatGPT is becoming an always-on thought partner for all kinds of work. However, the quality of your conversations is limited by the data that ChatGPT can access. Bringing Airtable data directly into ChatGPT is a natural fit and allows you to generate more relevant work using the operational context you manage in Airtable.

What is the ChatGPT app directory?

ChatGPT is evolving from a conversational interface into a workspace where teams can complete work from start to finish. The new app directory introduces a growing ecosystem of business applications across functions like finance, sales, operations, engineering, and marketing – helping teams bring the right context into ChatGPT to create plans, make decisions, and take action more quickly.

These apps enable teams to pull in real-time data from the tools they already rely on – like Airtable – while keeping those tools as the source of truth. You can have fluid, AI-powered conversations in ChatGPT and make updates that flow back to Airtable, ensuring your operational data stays current, accurate, and centralized where your team depends on it.

Bring Airtable data into ChatGPT

Instead of scrambling through Airtable to find updates, now you open ChatGPT and type: 'Draft a pre-read for my executive meeting using all the latest updates from the product roadmap in Airtable.' ChatGPT pulls the relevant data, synthesizes it, and creates your pre-read in seconds.

Or imagine you're a marketing lead reviewing campaign performance. You can prompt: 'Why are our best marketing campaigns overperforming?' ChatGPT analyzes patterns across your Airtable data and surfaces insights you might have missed.

Airtable for ChatGPT is ideal for any workflow where you need quick access to structured data to inform decisions and drive action. You can now:

• Reference Airtable data while generating content in ChatGPT: Pull the latest product roadmap updates as you prepare for a meeting, analyze patterns in customer feedback, or understand why your best marketing campaigns are overperforming.

• Give ChatGPT operational context: Instead of switching between tools, bring structured, internal data directly into the conversation to inform your work.

• Make quick updates to Airtable without leaving the chat: Keep your bases current with the changes that matter, right from ChatGPT.

How it works

Once you install the Airtable app from the ChatGPT app directory, you can select which bases or workspaces ChatGPT can access. Then, in any conversation, type "/Airtable" or select it from the tools dropdown to connect your data.

Example prompts include:

• "Generate a landing page for our product launch using the roadmap content in Airtable"

• "Here are my notes from stand up. Update the status of all deliverables tracked in Airtable based on what we discussed."

• "Draft a pre-read for my executive meeting using all the latest updates from Airtable."

ChatGPT will automatically surface relevant data and views from Airtable to help you accomplish your task, whether you're drafting content, analyzing information, or keeping your team in sync.

Airtable for ChatGPT is available to all plan levels of both products. You'll need edit access or higher in the bases you want to connect. Install it today at airtable.com/chatgpt.

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We’re excited to launch Built with Omni, a new showcase designed to inspire, educate, and accelerate how you build AI apps on Airtable.

Explore the showcase: https://airtable.com/built-with-omni

• Browse a growing library of ready-to-use elements from Airtable and the builder community
• Remix examples directly into your own bases to jumpstart new projects
• Submit your own creations for the community to learn from
• Learn effective prompting and development techniques by inspecting real-world code and configurations

And of course, the showcase itself is built as a custom public interface!

Alongside the new showcase, we’re also rolling out improvements to the custom elements experience:

• Inspect and edit code directly: Dive into the code behind any element and make changes directly.
• Tool selection no longer required: Omni will now recognize when you’re asking for a custom interface and come up with a plan, even if you don’t manually choose the tool.
• Public interface support: Custom elements can now power public interfaces (as demonstrated by the showcase itself!)
• Multi-developer support: SDK-built elements can now be developed and maintained by multiple collaborators.

Dive in
Dive in
Visit Built with Omni to explore examples and start building:
https://airtable.com/built-with-omni

To enable AI Labs features, workspace admins can go to Account > Workspace Settings and toggle on AI Labs. Once enabled, you’ll have access to the showcase and all the latest Custom Elements capabilities.

Share what you’ve built and keep the inspiration going!

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Launching Today: Linked Records in Synced Tables!

📣 Launching Today: Linked Records in Synced Tables! 🔗 Hi Airtable Community, We are excited to announce that starting today, we are rolling out support for linked records in synced tables ! 🎉 This highly-requested feature allows you to establish and maintain links between records in different tables, even when those tables are later synced across bases. With this feature, you’ll also be able to edit connections across records leveraging two-way sync! Why is this a game-changer? Start syncing linked data (and migrate over existing syncs!) with just a few clicks. No more relying on automations or field customization to connect linked records in syncs. Now, you’ll have first-class reliability out of the box. Work with synced linked data like it’s local to your app. The days of hopping across bases to make edits to linked data are over – you

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Launched: upload files in the scripting block!

We’re excited to announce a new input method for the scripting block: input.fileAsync! This enables script users to upload files, which the script can then use to do things like create or update records. If you’ve ever wanted to preprocess the data in your files before importing it to your base with the CSV or XML import block, you can now do so with input.fileAsync! Because you can access the file contents from inside the script, you could also do things like conditional record creation or custom fuzzy matching to update existing records. We’re excited to see how you can use this to empower your scripts! The returned value from the file input gives you access to the uploaded File itself, as well as the parsed contents of the file (if supported). Currently, parsing is automatically performed for .csv, .xls, .xlsx, .json, .xml, and .txt f

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All 12 challenges are live!

🌲 All 12 challenges are live! Check them out in the comment below.
🎁

We’re excited to introduce something BRAND new to the Airtable Community… a holiday build challenge designed to spark creativity, level up your AI skills, and bring a little seasonal magic to your workflows.

From December 1 through December 12, we’re releasing 12 daily AI build challenges, each one highlighting a different AI feature or AI use-case inside Airtable. You’ll work inside a festive demo base straight from the North Pole, where Santa’s workshop, the toy factory, Mrs. Claus’ bakery, the gift-wrapping team, and more are all running on Airtable.

This pinned post will serve as your central hub for the entire event. As each new AI Play is released, you’ll find it added here so you can follow along, build at your own pace, or catch up anytime.

🎁 What is the “12 Days of AI Plays”?
Each “AI Play” is a short, focused build challenge that invites you to:

• Try out one of Airtable’s newest AI capabilities
• Solve a real workflow from the North Pole Operations HQ demo base
• Experiment with AI fields, Omni, agents, automations, and more
• Share what you built with the community

The challenges are designed to take 10–20 minutes each – perfect for a quick daily burst of creativity and learning.

Watch our tutorial to learn how Airtable AI helps teams plan smarter roadmaps, extract insights from customer calls, and generate everything from visuals to full campaigns in minutes.

What to Expect

Across 12 days, you’ll explore things like:

• Document extraction & summarization
• Image generation & analysis
• AI-powered app generation
• Unstructured data summarization
• Scenario modeling
• Chained agent workflows
• Report generation
• Interface generation
• And much more!

By the end, you’ll have hands-on experience with a wide range of Airtable AI features — all while helping the North Pole Operations HQ get ready for the big day.

Don’t Miss a Single Play — Subscribe to This Post

The first challenge drops on December 1, and we’ll publish one new AI Play each day through December 12. Make sure you subscribe to this post so you’re notified as soon as each new challenge is released. Every daily release will be added as a comment right here.

👉 Click the “Subscribe” button at the bottom of this post.

Let the (AI-powered) holiday magic begin! Happy building and happy holidays from the Airtable Community team!

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

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