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December 11 Meeting Recap: How to establish your company's Center of Excellence

  • December 3, 2025
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Max_Bernstein
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Airtable is like a Michelin star restaurant. There are chefs and there are customers. Who you allow into the kitchen is the most important decision you can make. This topic is so important that we are dedicating an entire Airtable Media & Entertainment user group meeting to it.

You will learn:

  1. The importance of having an airtable CoE at your company
  2. Why you don’t have to wait for your boss to get started
  3. How to map your company’s database diagram
  4. Why being the one to establish your company’s Airtable center of excellence is the best career decision you can make heading into 2026

See you 2pm ET Dec 11th.

Register here: https://airtableevents.com/12-2025-from-pilot-to-powerhouse

 

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      MaddieJ
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      • December 11, 2025

      Thanks to everyone who joined this event today! ​@Max_Bernstein brought the vibes, advice, real-world examples, and actionable strategies for building an Airtable center of excellence. Whether you’re just starting your Airtable journey or looking to scale adoption, here are the top takeaways:

      3 Key Takeaways 📝

      • Establishing a Center of Excellence: Try forming a dedicated group who take ownership of building, maintaining, and championing Airtable systems. This group ensures best practices, avoids redundancies, and keeps the database structure clean and scalable. Without this, teams risk chaos from too many bases, tables, and fields, which can quickly become unmanageable.
      • Thoughtful Onboarding and Permissioning: Limit workspace and base permissions to your Center of Excellence, and use interfaces to provide role-specific, user-friendly views for the rest of the team. This not only protects your data but also streamlines user experience and drives adoption.
      • Customization Drives Engagement: The more you tailor Airtable interfaces and workflows to each department’s needs, the more likely users are to embrace the platform. Listen to stakeholder requests, deliver custom solutions, and you’ll see higher engagement and retention. Customization is key to turning early users into internal champions.


      Missed the session? Catch up with the recording below, and we hope to see you at the next event on December 16 where we’ll deep dive into Airtable Portals! 

       

       

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