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Using Airtable to create a custom GPT Tool

  • January 13, 2026
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Graham Reed
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In my life outside all things Airtable I have a large collection of curated resources on Product Operations. podcasts, articles, resources I have created, along with my partner in crime on this venture.

 

We want to create a custom GPT based on all this content that we can make available to our followers, peers and professionals.

 

Does anyone have experience of being able to do this with Airtable? I think I can get the information into airtable using field agents to scan docs and pages, transcripts etc. 

 

I would guess Omni would then take over and it would be used as the searcher and retrieves of summarized information.

 

Thoughts?

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    • January 13, 2026

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    Hi Graham Reed

    I’ve created a custom GPT for my peers based on an Airtable base. To achieve this, need access to custom connectors. Does your organization support custom connectors? Alternatively, we could export the data into Excel and use that as input for the custom GPT model. In that case, you would either need to manually export the data and feed it to GPT or set up an automation that generates an Excel file and connects it to the model.

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      • January 16, 2026

      Hi ​@ChandraYakkali 

      Thanks for that. I’ve not played with custom connectors and so wouldn’t know where to start with this, but keen to learn.

      Through further research, the problem is less about getting the data into airtable - bottom line I can add it in as an attachment or even raw text. The problem is how can I enable Omni to run for non-licenced users - which i don’t think it can. I tried to build a custom interface to act like a Claude or GPT search box, but it literally was a standard search box!

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