# Ray and Airtable

> The base your team runs on: read a record, add one, update one, comment.

Source: https://heyray.io/integrations/airtable

Ray is an AI teammate that works in your team chat, on Slack today. Connect Airtable and it can do the Airtable part of a request without anyone leaving the conversation: read what it needs, draft the change, and post it for approval before anything is written. 7 reads run without asking. 3 actions wait for a human approval.

## What Ray reads in Airtable

Reading changes nothing, so Ray never stops to ask whether it may look something up.

- Bases, tables, and their schema
- Records and the comments on them

## What waits for your approval

Every one of these posts an approval card in the thread showing exactly what is about to happen. Nothing runs until someone clicks approve, and no setting turns that off.

- Add records to a table
- Update a record
- Comment on a record

## Things Ray is never handed

These are left out during curation, so they are not something Ray could do and decides against. They are not in front of it at all.

- Ask Airtable's model to invent a record

## Ask it like this

- "@Ray what is the status of the Acme row in the pipeline base?"
- "@Ray add a row to the pipeline base for Northwind."
- "@Ray mark the Acme row as won."
- "@Ray what in the pipeline base has not moved in a month?"

## Connecting Airtable

Every person on the team connects their own Airtable account on Airtable's own login screen, so Ray can only reach what that person can already reach, and the history in Airtable shows who actually asked. Passwords never pass through Ray. Disconnecting Airtable or uninstalling Ray revokes the connection.

## More

- This page for people: https://heyray.io/integrations/airtable
- Every integration: https://heyray.io/integrations.md
- Install Ray: https://heyray.io/install.md
- Pricing: https://heyray.io/pricing.md