‌🎉 Swag alert: Share how you're leveraging Airtable Cobuilder!

[MaddieJ]

Hey AI Accelerator group!

ICYMI, this week we launched Airtable Cobuilder - an incredible new feature that allows you to quickly build an Airtable app based on an AI prompt. Who here is excited?!

I know personally, I've been looking to redesign my Community Events base, so leveraging Cobuilder is a game changer. Here's the prompt I started with:

You are an Airtable Community manager planning events for user groups and to drive product adoption. Create an app to help organize these event tasks, including a calendar

Within seconds, Cobuilder created this ✨ gorgeous ✨ app, with options for dashboard views, a task kanban, timeline, and of course, the calendar that I asked for in the prompt.

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As @Rosalind_Lutsky mentioned in her Announcement post, all Airtable plan types now have access to Cobuilder.* So we'd like to invite you to try out Cobuilder and share what you've built! The first 10 Community members to share about their first Cobuilder app will receive some Community swag!

When sharing your Cobuilder success story, be sure to:
1. Post directly in this thread
2. Include the prompt that you used to create your app (feel free to share if you iterated on your prompt and how any prompt changes helped improve the app)
3. Share a screenshot (only if the data is anonymized!)
4. Share how you plan to use this app and the estimated impact it will have on your work! (e.g. hours saved using Cobuilder, efficiency gains, etc.)

As our AI enthusiasts in the Community, we can't wait to be inspired by your use case!

*Note that if you are on a Business or Enterprise plan, AI will need to be enabled on your account to access Cobuilder. Reach out to your account administrator or Airtable rep for more information.  

[dariot]

Love this, @MaddieJ!

The time saved here is tremendous. Building out our V1 Community event base took quite some time. 😅

@hollyknowlman @jordanoverton have either of you had a chance to check out Cobuilder? ✨

[Matthew_Lanni]

Prompt: You are in charge or video production for a company. You have the following pieces of data to manage when producing a video: Video Name and ID number, Presenter Name and Email, Video Subject, YouTube Link, Vimeo Link, and Video Production Status

Screenshots: I like the video overview list it made

Cobuilder also suggested adding a "Production Team" table, which I had missed in my prompt.

Plan to use: My existing video production base is falling apart to the point that I haven't used it at all this year, so this will save me a ton of "rebuilding" time. This will also probably save me a minimum of 1-2 hours a day, simply by centralizing my data.

[MaddieJ]

Absolutely love this use case @Matthew_Lanni! Saving on "rebuilding" time is huge for me too and really makes a potentially daunting task feel much more manageable and even fun! 

[Mike_AutomaticN]

I was excited to give it a try.

Prompt: 
You are an Airtable expert, highly skilled in relational database architecture. I am responsible for tracking the payment of different expenses for multiple real estate properties. Expenses will include:
- Water
- Electricity
- Gas
- Regular Expenses
- AdHoc Expenses
Except for AdHoc Expenses, payments are scheduled on a monthly basis.
Please build an App that will allow me to easily manage the above.

Screenshots: Attached.

Plan To Use: At a personal level, I need to keep track of different expenses for different appartments. This base will become a great way of keeping track of (i) what has been paid; (ii) how much as paid; (iii) when was it paid; and (iv) what is still to be paid. By structuring the data, and keeping the base up to date, I will not need to spend time figuring out whether certain bills have been already paid or not (I'm a mess without Airtable!). This takes me about 4hs a month. So it will not only give me back 48hs a year, but it will also allow me to see aggregate and/or filtered data of my payments in a nice and visual way.

Next Step: Set up an automation that will, on a monthly basis, create a record for each of the "monthly" expenses. Have a page on the interface to show all expenses where Payment is empty. These will obviously be the ones I'll need to take care of :D.

Looking forward to it!

[MaddieJ]

@Mike_AutomaticN such an awesome use case! And double kudos for the automation call out as your next step 😎

[Databaser]

Everything for swag 😎 Here's my test for a colleague of mine:

Prompt

I am the Business Unit Manager of an Interim Management Business Unit within a consultancy company offering services within safety topics. I need a base where I can manage my internal and external interim managers, their level of knowledge in different topics, leads from possible clients, the assignment of those interims to those leads and do the follow-up of the project itself (total number of days, days already worked, ...).

Screenshot

Attached

Plan to use

It's some typical project/process management fuzz for my colleague who has to track and link different pieces of data: link a lead to an interim manager, based on his/her level of knowledge and then follow up the project (days spent, profit, ...).  

It suggested "Client contacts" which didn't cross my mind, so I think the AI builder is (also) very good for given options that you wouldn't immediately think of 💪

Estimated impact

As we all know, time is money. Saving time to create the app from scratch and saving hours of classical email/spreadsheet/posit approach. 

[MaddieJ]

@Databaser this is great! And such a good call out on how Cobuilder can suggest things you may not have thought of - @Matthew_Lanni had a similar experience too! Thanks for sharing 😀

[Shamil_Magomedo]

Here is my prompt:

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I intend to develop a Profit & Loss model for my project, a mobile game. The game's revenue is subscription-based. My plan includes forecasting all development expenses for six months and the revenue the game will generate over two years of operations following its release.

Of course, the result should be adjusted and modified for practical use, but I appreciate how Cobuilder highlighted some aspects that I hadn't even planned to include in my model, such as Marketing and Support.

[MaddieJ]

@Shamil_Magomedo awesome! Looks like it came up with a great level of detail and what a cool use case!