Your guide to building in Airtable

Your guide to building in Airtable

Welcome to Airtable! This guide covers all the ins and outs of building in Airtable, from your very first base to a fully automated and integrated solution.

First, what is Airtable?

With Airtable, you can build powerful, custom databases and applications to support your team’s most important workflows.

In practice, this might look like a content calendar, a product roadmap, an event schedule, a company goal tracker…or all of the above! Airtable is flexible enough to handle workflows big and small, and to grow as your team’s needs evolve.

We know that creating an “application” or “database” can sound like a tall order, but we promise that with this guide, a little effort, and Airtable, you’ll be creating your own tools in no time.

Here’s a glimpse of what’s possible with Airtable:

People use Airtable to do everything from tracking job interviews to managing large-scale video production, and thousands of companies use Airtable to run their most important business processes every day. So how does one platform help accomplish all that? Learn more here.

This guide will take you through everything you need to build your first fully functional Airtable base and workflow! Follow along with the eight stages of this guide—and if you’re already familiar with Airtable, choose the stage that feels the most relevant for you.

Go ahead and explore each stage below:   

1. Create your database

2. Design your workflow

3. Give your team the right context

4. Set your team up for success

5. Automate your work

6. Extend your workflow

7. Connect data across tools

8. Build (even more) on Airtable

Keep this page handy as you create and evolve your team's workflow in Airtable. You probably won't learn everything on this list in one sitting, but rather come back to add and expand your workflow as your team's needs change.