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Project and program management
Portfolio management, sprints, deliverables, deadlines and resource allocation. It is the broadest use case and the one that most easily justifies a consulting project.
Airtable
AI-native no-code platform: relational bases, Interface Designer, AI Agents and Cobuilder to build business apps on shared data.
70-80%
time savings in media planning (Red Bull flagship case)
9 months → days
issue resolution after migrating to Airtable (eBay case)
80%
of the Fortune 500 uses Airtable
500K+
organizations with Airtable in production
Featured customers of Airtable
01. Context
The layer where day-to-day work lives.
Airtable is the AI-native no-code platform with the largest installed base in the space: 500,000+ organizations, 80% of the Fortune 500 and tier-1 enterprise cases such as Amazon, Walmart, Red Bull, eBay and Code and Theory. The classic positioning ("the Lego of software") has mutated during 2024-2026 towards an AI-native refoundation declared by Howie Liu himself: conversational AI as the default interface and central engine of workflows, not as a bolt-on layer.
The product is structured around seven layers: relational bases with linked records, lookups, rollups and formulas; Interface Designer to build client apps with drag-and-drop on top of the data; native Automations with triggers, actions and conditional logic; AI Fields and AI Assistant that apply AI at the field level (categorization, sentiment, translation, structured extraction) with OpenAI, Anthropic and other models alternable per field; Cobuilder to generate apps from natural language; AI Agents and Field Agents for autonomous multistep tasks within bases; and ProductCentral for product teams. It also exposes an MCP server, which allows connecting Claude or other external LLMs directly to the bases as infrastructure accessible from agent-assisted landscapes.
02. How we apply it
Five fronts where Airtable fits perfectly.
The applications that come up most often in our projects.
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Marketing operations
Content calendars, campaign tracking, asset libraries, briefing systems. An especially strong vertical for Airtable. Red Bull documented 70-80% time savings in media planning with this architecture.
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Product development with ProductCentral
Roadmap management, aggregation of customer feedback and feature prioritization on the ProductCentral module, Airtable's specific vertical for product teams.
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Operations and back-office
Inventory tracking, vendor management, contract lifecycle and asset management. A natural case for SMBs and mid-market that replace Excel + custom apps with a single relational base.
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AI-powered workflows with Field Agents
Deployments where we design landscapes of Field Agents for enrichment, automatic categorization, communication drafts and document processing, the newest area and where the billable ticket is highest due to its novelty.
03. What changes for you
The advantages of working with us.
Our entire technical team holds Airtable's three official certifications. Builder, Admin and AI App Builder, plus the complete Field Agent Deep Dive. It is a position very few Spanish consultants can credential. For you it translates into concrete things: you do not finance a learning curve. The patterns in linked records, the traps of chained rollups, the real limits of Automations when volume doubles and where AI Field justifies workspace credits, all of that is already seen and resolved in other bases in production.
Where we extract the most value from your Airtable investment is in the technical decision of when it is the right tool and when it is not. Most Airtable-only partners push you to put everything in relational bases even if the case calls for something else. We operate without bias: Airtable when the strength is in the relational data and the Interface Designer, Notion when it is knowledge management, Softr when a multi-tenant app with granular permissions is needed, Make and n8n for orchestration when native Automations fall short, Apify or Enginy when the base has to be fed with real-world data. The complete stack, recommending what really fits your operation.
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