When working with building automation systems outside of Airtable, a lot of use cases involve taking actions on Airtable data. These are currently done via custom Airtable API calls and actions that require a lot of configuration. They’re difficult to set up, maintain, get right, and scale.

It would be a huge advancement if, instead of hooking up all those API calls and configurations ourselves, we could just provide our base and table and provide our request to Airtable Omni via the API and let it do the agentic work on our data.

For example, the automation might look something like:

ClickUp trigger > Airtable > Airtable Query: “Look through user feedback data in table X in base Y and provide a summary report of the 3 most important areas of improvement according to Z criteria” > Upload the PDF and upload to Microsoft OneDrive.”

The parts in bold is where it would be very helpful to simply provide that as a query to Airtable’s AI/Omni via API.

If not via the API, is it possible to at least get Airtable Omni via Airtable’s own automations (e.g. to ask the above bolded natural language query on a schedule)? I know that Airtable Automations currently allow for ‘Generate text with AI’ but what I’m asking for here is being able to automate agentic actions, not just text generation.

Is this something the Airtable team might consider?