AICHE +Airtable Integration

The short answer: open Airtable, click into any field or create a new table, press ⌃+⌥+R (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+R (Windows/Linux), speak your base structure or formula for 60-120 seconds, and AICHE inserts detailed specifications.

Airtable's flexibility demands detailed table structures and formulas that take 20+ minutes to type. You visualize the complete database schema with relationships between tables, formula fields calculating metrics, and automations triggering actions, but keyboard mechanics slow you down.

1. Open Airtable in your browser.
2. Navigate to your base or create a new one.
3. Click into a field, notes section, or automation description.
4. Press your AICHE hotkey to start recording.
5. Speak your complete specification.
6. Press the hotkey again-AICHE transcribes, applies Content Organization to structure relationships, and inserts the text.

Base Creation

Planning Your Schema

Before building, dictate the complete base structure. Example: "Create a content calendar base for social media management. First table: posts containing title as single line text, body copy as long text, publish date as date field, time as time field, status as single select with options Draft, Scheduled, Published, and Archived. Add a platform field as multiple select with Instagram, X, LinkedIn, and Facebook options. Include an author field as collaborator linked to users."

The spoken schema becomes documentation and guides manual table creation.

Linked Records

For relationships between tables, speak the connections clearly: "Create a second table called campaigns. Link the posts table to campaigns using a linked record field. Each campaign has a campaign name, start date, end date, and goal number. In the posts table, add a lookup field that pulls the campaign goal from the linked campaigns table. Add a rollup field in campaigns that counts the number of posts linked to each campaign."

AICHE captures these relationships. You implement them in Airtable's interface using the transcribed spec as reference.

View Customization

Creating Custom Views

Dictate view logic precisely: "Create a view called Publishing This Week. Filter to show only records where publish date is within the current week and status equals Scheduled or Draft. Sort by publish date ascending, then by time ascending. Group by platform. Hide the body copy and author fields. Set to calendar view format with publish date as the date field."

Voice eliminates the tedium of clicking through filter menus while preserving complete view specifications.

Formula Fields

For calculations, speak the logic in plain language: "Add a formula field called days until publish. Calculate the difference between publish date and today using DATETIME_DIFF function with days as the unit. If the result is negative, meaning the date has passed, return the text Past Due in red. Otherwise return the number of days."

The verbal formula logic translates to Airtable syntax during manual implementation, but speaking it first clarifies intent and prevents errors.

Automation

Building Workflows

Dictate automation sequences completely (example: "Create an automation that triggers when a record enters the Publishing This Week view. Add a condition: only proceed if platform includes Instagram or X. First action: send a Slack message to the content-team channel with the post title, publish date, and assigned author. Include a link to the Airtable record. Second action: send an email to the author 48 hours before the publish date with the post title and a reminder to review the copy. Third action: update a last reminded date field so we don't send duplicate reminders").

Voice captures multi-step automation logic faster than typing while clicking through Airtable's automation builder.

Result: Airtable bases with complex table relationships, formulas, and automations that took 35 minutes to type while constantly switching between schema planning and implementation now take 8 minutes to dictate, and the spoken specifications serve as onboarding documentation for new team members.

Do this now: open Airtable, press your hotkey, and dictate one complete base structure with linked tables, formula fields, custom views, and automation workflows you've been planning but haven't built because documenting it properly felt overwhelming.