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?
Best answer by nroshak
@Rob_Weidner1Would love to hear more about your experience! How does Airtable MCP + Claude Code compare to just using Omni in Airtable?
@Graham Reed Omni uses AI credits, so my understanding is that it won’t run for non-licensed users. It can run for your Portals users if you want to pay for Portals access for your guests, though.
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.
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!
So essentially, creating some sort of a chat interface web application that is fed with your own knowledge base that may or may not be based in Airtable is what you're looking for, right? You might be able to do this using Claude code or a custom GPT to build that application and then connect to the Airtable MCP server which would allow users to get access to anything in your Airtable which could be really cool! I've been messing around with the Airtable MCP server and Claude code recently and I've been wildly impressed with its capabilities.
@Rob_Weidner1Would love to hear more about your experience! How does Airtable MCP + Claude Code compare to just using Omni in Airtable?
@Graham Reed Omni uses AI credits, so my understanding is that it won’t run for non-licensed users. It can run for your Portals users if you want to pay for Portals access for your guests, though.
Indeed thanks everyone for your input. I’ve come to the conclusion Airtable will act best as the data source/library (or part of it) rather than the interaction layer. I’ve been experimenting with Gemini Gems too which seemed to yield some cool results and more what I was looking for!
@Rob_Weidner1Would love to hear more about your experience! How does Airtable MCP + Claude Code compare to just using Omni in Airtable?
@Graham Reed Omni uses AI credits, so my understanding is that it won’t run for non-licensed users. It can run for your Portals users if you want to pay for Portals access for your guests, though.
@nroshak your wish is my command! I just dropped a video and wrote up on my experience with ChatGPT, Claude, and Omni side by side and the findings are WILD. Sorry for my enthusiasm and the lengthy video (that somehow got messed up with the audio sync towards the end🙀)
