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Event | The Admin Audit | July 16

  • July 2, 2026
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jessicatenzer
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If you're an Airtable admin, you've probably had this moment:

You open your workspace and wonder...

Do we really need all of these bases?

A few duplicate workflows.

Some automations no one owns.

A handful of archived projects that somehow are still active.

It happens to every growing Airtable environment.

On July 16, we're hosting The Admin Audit: Bases, Automations, and Everything In Between—a practical session on how to evaluate the health of your Airtable workspace and build a sustainable framework for keeping it organized as your organization grows.

We'll cover:

• How to identify and consolidate duplicate bases before they multiply
• What to do with orphaned automations (and how to prevent them)
• Strategies for reducing workspace sprawl across teams
• How to build an admin audit framework you can use again and again
• Real examples from organizations managing Airtable at scale

Whether you've inherited an Airtable workspace, are preparing for a cleanup project, or simply want to stay ahead of governance, you'll leave with practical ideas you can start using immediately.

I'd also love to hear from this group:

If you ran an audit on your Airtable workspace today, what's the first thing you'd expect to find?

Register here! 

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      MaddieJ
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      • July 16, 2026

      Admin Audit Recap: Bases, Automations, and Everything In Between

      Thanks to everyone who joined us for this session. ​@amber_packard from Optimize IS led us through a five-part audit framework to help admins get a handle on workspace sprawl and walk away with a clear first step. Catch the recording here, and keep reading for some key takeaways.

       

       

      The five-part audit framework
      Amber introduced five categories to score your workspace on: bases, automations, users, data, and governance. By the end of the session, attendees scored their own organization across each category to identify where to start.

      Bases: visible clutter
      Workspace sprawl usually happens slowly. Teams move fast, copy existing bases, and tell themselves they'll clean it up later. Sound familiar? (The chat certainly agreed.) Amber walked through a decision framework for every base you encounter: keep it, merge it, archive it, or delete it. The key questions: what problem does this base solve, who owns it, who's actually using it, and what does it depend on?

      Automations: invisible risk
      Bases create visible clutter. Automations create invisible risk. The most dangerous automation isn't the broken one — it's the one still running successfully but doing the wrong thing. Amber covered how to audit automations for orphaned triggers, missing descriptions, and processes that have long since changed.

      Progress over perfection
      A healthy workspace doesn't mean every base is perfect. It means people know who owns each system, where the source of truth lives, and what the lifecycle of a base looks like from creation through retirement.

      Didn't make it to the live session? Airtable Academy has free training paths and certifications built for admins if you want to go deeper.

      See you at the next one!

        amber_packard

        Was such a fun time! Now I gotta go clean my basement IYKYK 😉

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