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What IT Project is currently keeping your team up at night?

  • April 29, 2026
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Our team just got home from spending a few days at the NASCIO mid-year conference, where we heard from IT and Operations leaders from around the US talking about their prerogative on AI, what it means to ‘Modernize’ and some of the current IT projects that are top of mind. 


Among many topics, we heard most about:

  • IT Portfolios that have no central project management or progress tracking
  • Enterprise Governance and Responsible AI Adoption
  • Procurement workflows that live in spreadsheets
  • ITSM and Asset Management that is disconnected across several tools
  • Leaders needing a more consistent ‘single-pane-of-glass’ to measure their success against key initiatives 

Would welcome any additions to the list of what we should prioritize, or your thoughts on any of the above!

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      Thomas_Haydon
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      • Thomas_Haydon
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      • June 5, 2026

      While we love building in Airtable, the main IT project keeping our team up at night is managing the growing list of "workarounds" required to scale our bases for daily operations.

      Here are the specific pain points and hurdles we are currently wrestling with:

      • Sandbox vs. Production Governance: Managing permissions at scale is tedious. When reviewing and applying structural changes from Sandbox to Production, collaborator access does not sync. This requires manual tracking and re-inviting of users just to give them access to the live data they just finished testing in the sandbox.

      • Interface vs. Data View Discrepancies: There is a frustrating gap in filtering capabilities between the backend Data Views and frontend Interfaces. Missing basic options (like strict calendar-month filtering) forces us to clutter the backend with "helper formulas" just to make standard Interface dashboards function correctly for leadership.

      • Data Aggregation Overhead: The lack of native cross-record calculations (like a standard COUNTIF function) forces us to build complex Linked Record and Rollup table architectures simply to tally inventory or count duplicate entries.

      • Time-Based Automation Reliability: We learned the hard way that dynamic formulas using TODAY() update inconsistently on the backend, making them completely unreliable for triggering automations. This forces a strict reliance on native date operators, which can sometimes be too rigid for complex pilot tracking.

      • Missing Quality-of-Life UI Features: Navigating small but vital user experience gaps can cause friction. For example, the inability to create a native "Copy to Clipboard" button for end-users—due to Airtable's scripting sandbox restrictions—prevents us from delivering the seamless UI our team expects.

      Looking forward to hearing if anyone else is running into these exact hurdles, or how other admins are managing the Sandbox permission sync and keeping their backend clean from endless helper formulas!

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