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Welcome to the April 2026 edition of The Airtable Effect—a monthly roundup of what’s new, what’s inspiring, and what’s possible with Airtable. Whether you're an everyday builder, a certified pro, or just getting started, this newsletter is for you.In each rendition of the newsletter, we’ll bring you:New product and program launches and updates The latest educational content from Airtable Academy Highlights from the Airtable Community Upcoming events you won’t want to missYou can find The Airtable Effect every month:In your inbox (are you opted into marketing emails?) On LinkedIn (make sure to subscribe to this newsletter!) In the Airtable Community (check the 

Today we’re excited to announce the launch of Google Drive + OneDrive connectors in field agents—a powerful new way to connect your files directly to your Airtable workflows. You can now direct field agents to search, reference, and summarize content from your Google Drive and OneDrive documents.  Key use cases:Get up to speed with context: Instantly search for background information and insights from your Drive or OneDrive to ramp up on new projects—no more digging through folders or old documents. Summarize comment threads: Quickly generate overviews of conversations on a document, such as a product requirements doc, so you can drive alignment. Search knowledge bases to answer questions: Surface answers from documentation or support articles stored in your cloud drives to resolve questions faster and keep your team moving. Refer to specif

While hundreds of Airtable builders were gathering in New York City for the first ever Airtable Buildathon, hundreds of you were also working hard virtually on your community hackathon submissions! Our second community-led hackathon’s theme was “Let’s Play,” and showed us anything is possible when you mix Airtable, creativity, and a bit of mischief 💫😉Participants competed across three categories: Airtable AI: Recognizing the best use of AI features (selected by Alex McDonnell, @alexmcdonnell, Airtable’s Director, Product Marketing) Grand Jury: Selected by a committee of top Airtable builders Basefluencer: Awarded to the most-liked video on YouTubeFirst, a big shout out to ​@Mike_AutomaticN who organized this special event again for the community, and finally, without further ado, let's celebrate

What stood out most from the NYC Buildathon?The builders. Full stop. That disposable camera vibe 🤙Last week in New York City, hundreds of Airtable builders came together — and it was honestly incredible to watch what happened when you put that many creative, systems-minded people in one room.You could feel it immediately:Tables of strangers turning into teammates… then into besties by the end of the day. Builders swapping ideas, pressure-testing workflows, and helping each other push builds further.

Hey Airtable Community,We're excited to announce two key updates for Enterprise Scale customers: a brand-new Databricks sync integration and expanded custom SQL support for both Databricks and Snowflake.What's newDatabricks is now available as a native sync source. And for both Databricks and Snowflake, you can now sync the result of any custom SQL query, not just predefined views or tables, directly into Airtable.This means any user with permission to execute queries within a warehouse can write precise queries to sync data to Airtable tables on a schedule, ready for automations, interfaces, and cross-functional workflows.

Hello! I'm Ayesha, a Product Manager at Airtable. We're excited to announce that Portals is now generally available, giving your organization seamless guest access capabilities. What are Portals? Portals let you invite users outside your organization as guests to your interfaces. These guests will see a branded sign-in screen and can collaborate within your interfaces—making it perfect for:Client portals: Give clients real-time access to project updates and deliverables

Today we're rolling out the deep match field agent, a new type of field agent that finds and links the most relevant records from your data.  What is the deep match field agent?This field agent intelligently surfaces the most relevant records from across your tables and links them together — automatically. Instead of manually hunting for connections between records, deep match reads your data, understands the context, and makes the match for you.Whether you're connecting related products, routing feedback to the right team, or pairing opportunities with the best fit, deep match field agent does the heavy lifting so you don't have to. How teams are using the deep match field agent Match sponsors to podcasts: Podcast networks are using deep match field agent to pair new sponsors with the right shows in their catalog

Welcome to Change Makers, our series highlighting customer stories and builders making an incredible impact with Airtable. Today’s Change Maker leveraged Airtable's AI features to transform her organization’s payment approval workflow from a 2-3 day manual process to same-day execution with full compliance audit trails. Meet Sonia (​@Sonia_AV), Investment Operations & Compliance ManagerQ: Do you have a go-to creative outlet or way to unwind after a busy day?A: CrossFit! I'll admit I'm naturally lazy about exercise and it takes effort to show up, but once I'm there, focusing on reps and completing the workout is the perfect way to switch off. My favorite part? When it ends!

Hi everyone, I'm Akshar Patel (AP), a Product Manager here at Airtable. Today I'm excited to share three updates that make it easier to collaborate with your team directly inside Airtable, so you don't have to jump across tools to keep conversations moving. Whether you're giving feedback on a record, tracking what's been addressed, or trying to find that one notification from last week, these updates are for you.  1. Attach files directly to commentsYou can now attach files (images, PDFs, videos, documents, and more) right inside your comments on a record. 

Welcome to the December 2025 edition of The Airtable Effect—a monthly roundup of what’s new, what’s inspiring, and what’s possible with Airtable. Whether you're an everyday builder, a certified pro, or just getting started, this newsletter is for you.In each rendition of the newsletter, we’ll bring you:New product and program launches and updates The latest educational content from Airtable Academy Highlights from the Airtable Community Upcoming events you won’t want to missYou can find The Airtable Effect every month:In your inbox (are you opted into marketing emails?) On LinkedIn (make sure to subscribe to this newsletter!) In the Airtable Community (check the Onboarding Resources section)Let’s take a look back at what happened in Airtable last month.

After weeks of creativity, storytelling, and incredible submissions from the Airtable Community, we’re excited to officially announce the Grand Prize winner of the Community Creator Challenge.🏆 Congratulations to ​@liz12 Liz’s video delivered the highest conversion rate after two weeks live in-market, earning her the $10,000 Grand Prize. Her submission stood out for its clarity, creativity, and the authentic way it showcased how Airtable powers her real-world workflow. 🎬 Watch the winning video  How Liz uses AirtableIn her video, Liz walks through how she uses Airtable as the central hub for her daily workflows managing Grammy-winning audio engineers.Her base helps her manage: C

Hi all -- ​@kev here to excitedly announce that we have a brand new, one-of-a-kind event coming up next month -- and we’re looking for the best Airtable builders to compete! You’re invited to apply to  the Airtable Buildathon on March 19 in NYC, a one-day, high-energy competition where you’ll solve real business problems with AI and compete for $100K+ in cash prizes... (!!)Let’s be clear: this is not a typical hackathon.It’s a

Welcome to Change Makers, our series highlighting customer stories and builders making an incredible impact with Airtable. Today's Change Maker is a graduate of the Airtable AI Incubator who built an intelligent workspace that's revolutionizing how design teams work with product data. Meet Aaron, Digital Operations Manager at Raw🎨 If you weren't in your current role, what would you be doing?I think I would have probably tried to find a way to get into web design. Over the last few months, after spending time making intuitive, functional, and of course aesthetically pleasing, user experiences for the te

We’re excited to announce that Image Generation & Analysis is now available in Airtable. Our new AI Plays showcase how you can use Image Generation agents in your workflows:Visualize marketing campaign concepts in real-world settings—see how your ideas look before you launch: Try this AI Play

Welcome to Change Makers, our series highlighting customer stories and builders making an incredible impact with Airtable.Shelyn Liu oversees product and revenue operations at Gradual, a unified community experience platform. “I heard about Airtable from product-ops peers and tried it when we needed to quickly connect Deals, Contacts and Requests,” she said. Airtable ended up becoming their perfect solution to build streamlined workflows that power their product marketing and revenue operations strategy.“We shipped a working base in a day and never looked back. It became our single source of truth we could grow without re-platforming.” And with Airtable AI, they built a single source of truth for both prospects and customer data, helping h

Hey Airtable community! 👋We've been getting questions about AI credits and what they actually mean for your day-to-day workflows. I wanted to share some concrete examples of how credits are consumed so you can better understand the value included in your plan—and make the most of this powerful functionality. Quick Context Every Airtable plan includes AI credits that reset monthly, pooled across your organization:Team: 15,000 AI credits per user per month Business: 20,000 AI credits per user per month Enterprise Scale

Hey Airtable Community,We’re excited to share that our monthly Onboarding Office Hours are getting a refresh! Starting this fall, we’re rolling out a new format and a new name: Set the Table: Builder Basics.These sessions are designed specifically for beginners or Builders who’d like a refresh in order to feel confident with Airtable. In these 45 minutes sessions, you can expect: Build Along Demo: Follow our Scaled Customer Success Managers in a guided demo, and build alongside them in your own practice base. ⚡Hint: Ask Omni to build your first base! With a simple prompt, or by leveraging our AI Plays, AI can help you get a head start. Live Q&A / E

Welcome to Change Makers, our series highlighting customer stories and builders making an incredible impact with Airtable. Today’s Change Maker is one of our Airtable MVPs.Mike Bukhin (​@m1keb) is the cofounder of Misha & Puff, an ethical luxury apparel brand for babies and kids. Misha & Puff started with a small, specific use case in Airtable and just kept building over the last 12 years after seeing Airtable’s flexibility. Mike’s role has become increasingly focused on building operational systems and says “Airtable allowed us to evolve w

Welcome to the February 2026 edition of The Airtable Effect—a monthly roundup of what’s new, what’s inspiring, and what’s possible with Airtable. Whether you're an everyday builder, a certified pro, or just getting started, this newsletter is for you.In each rendition of the newsletter, we’ll bring you:New product and program launches and updates The latest educational content from Airtable Academy Highlights from the Airtable Community Upcoming events you won’t want to missYou can find The Airtable Effect every month:In your inbox (are you opted into marketing emails?) On LinkedIn (make sure to subscribe to this newsletter!) In the Airtable Community (check the