Your Airtable system became operational infrastructure. Now learn to own it like it is.
An intensive for the person responsible for an Airtable system other people depend on.
Learn how to govern, maintain, improve, validate, document, and eventually hand over your system while building the operating Playbook for your actual base.
Register Your InterestThe Intensive is built around the Airtable system you already operate. Choose how you'd like to take it next.
- Live Cohort: four weeks of live workshops with a small group
- Independent: the same curriculum and Playbook, on your own schedule
- Applied work against your own Airtable system
- A completed Champion Playbook
You already know how to use Airtable. That's not the problem.
At some point, the base you built stopped being a useful personal tool and became something people depended on.
Somewhere along the way, you became responsible for an operational system, often without anyone defining what responsible ownership actually looks like.
The Airtable Champion Intensive is designed for that moment.
Four weeks to turn what you know into an operating practice.
A healthy Airtable system shouldn't depend on one person remembering how everything works.
During the Intensive, you'll take what currently lives in your head and make it explicit: how the system works, who owns what, how changes get made, what needs monitoring, how requests are handled, and what another person would need to know.
Understand what you actually own.
Map the purpose of your system, the workflows it supports, its users, dependencies, ownership boundaries, and the operational responsibilities that come with being its Champion.
Create a real operating model.
Define how your system should be maintained, monitored, governed, and documented instead of relying on memory and reacting when something goes wrong.
Build a disciplined change practice.
Learn to observe before diagnosing, understand what someone is actually trying to accomplish, evaluate the implications of a request, and validate changes before releasing them.
Make the system transferable.
Document enough context, decisions, routines, and ownership that another knowledgeable person could step in without reconstructing the entire system from scratch.
The deliverable isn't a certificate. It's the operating guide for your system.
Throughout the Intensive, you'll build your Champion Playbook against your own Airtable environment.
It becomes the living operating manual for the system you manage: what the system exists to accomplish, how its workflows operate, who owns what, how the system stays healthy, how changes are evaluated and validated, how users are supported, and how the Champion role operates over time.
The Playbook is designed to keep working after the Intensive ends.
Your organization can continue using, updating, and handing it forward as the system evolves.
Focus on capturing enough shared operational knowledge that your organization can use, protect, support, validate, and evolve the system intentionally.
Your Champion Playbook
- System Charter
- System Map
- Ownership & Responsibilities
- Governance Rules
- System Health Check
- Data & Automation Operations
- Change Intake & Change Control
- Workflow Validation
- User Enablement
- Support & Escalation
- Adoption & Operating Rhythm
- 90-Day Champion Operating Plan
A working system can still be a fragile system.
An Airtable base can function perfectly today and still carry substantial operational dependency.
If critical knowledge lives primarily with one person, routine changes depend on that person's judgment, requests arrive without a consistent process, or system health is discovered through user complaints, the organization hasn't fully operationalized what it built.
Built on your real system.
No fictional company. No sample base you abandon when the course ends.
You bring an Airtable system you currently own or help operate. Each week combines asynchronous preparation, live instruction, and applied Playbook work against that environment.
Understand the operating principle.
Learn the thinking behind ownership, governance, change, validation, monitoring, documentation, and continuity.
Look at your actual environment.
Identify where the principle shows up in the system you already manage.
Make the operating decision.
Determine how your organization should handle ownership, requests, changes, responsibilities, and exceptions.
Put the decision on the record.
Capture what you've decided in your Champion Playbook so the knowledge no longer depends on memory.
Make sure the practice holds up.
Use the live workshops to validate your thinking against real workflows, edge cases, and questions from your environment.
The hard part isn't knowing where the button is.
The live workshops are designed for the questions that aren't answered by a help article.
Work that keeps working after the Intensive ends.
You won't just have consumed training.
A completed Champion Playbook
Built around the Airtable system you actually own and operate.
A clearer operating model
Documented purpose, workflows, users, ownership, dependencies, and responsibilities.
A repeatable change practice
A framework for evaluating requests and validating changes before they are released.
A more transferable system
Documentation and routines designed to support continuity and eventual handover.
You're probably already doing the job.
The title on your org chart doesn't need to say "Airtable Champion."
This is for you if
- You own or effectively own an Airtable system other people rely on
- You're the person people contact when something doesn't look right
- You make or influence decisions about how the system changes
- A significant amount of system knowledge currently lives in your head
- You've inherited a base and are now responsible for keeping it healthy
- Your organization needs someone internally capable of stewarding its Airtable investment
- You want to be able to hand the system to another knowledgeable person without handing them a mystery
This probably isn't for you if
- You're primarily looking for Airtable fundamentals
- You want a walkthrough of fields, views, interfaces, formulas, or automations
- You don't yet have a real Airtable system to work against
- You want a certificate more than an operating practice
Your Airtable investment needs an internal owner.
Building the system is only part of implementation.
Someone inside the organization ultimately needs enough context and operating discipline to steward it.
They need to understand what the system supports, evaluate requests, coordinate changes, recognize when something needs attention, maintain institutional knowledge, and know when outside expertise is actually required.
The Airtable Champion Intensive gives that person a structured operating framework while they document the system they're already responsible for.
This is more than Airtable training.
You're developing internal capability around a system your organization already depends on.
The result is clearer ownership, stronger operating practices, better documentation, more disciplined change, and less dependence on undocumented knowledge held by one person.
Need internal approval?
The Leadership Approval Brief includes the course outline, learning outcomes, organizational value, and time commitment in a format you can share directly with your manager or learning leader.
The build isn't the end of the work.
Most people don't deliberately become the Airtable person.
They build something useful. More people start using it. More workflows move into it. Eventually, they're responsible for a system the business relies on without ever having been taught how to operate one.
I've seen the consequences of that repeatedly in Airtable consulting.
The build itself is rarely the whole challenge.
The harder questions come afterward. Who owns this? Who can change it? How should requests be evaluated? How do we know a change actually works? What should be monitored? What needs to be documented? What happens when the person who understands all of this leaves?
I built the Airtable Champion Intensive to give internal system owners a framework for answering those questions and a place to document the answers.
Your real system. One operating Playbook. Live or on your schedule.
Live Cohort
A four-week blended program. Each week includes asynchronous preparation, a 60-minute live workshop, and applied Champion Playbook work. An optional 30-minute Champion Office Hour follows each workshop for questions, troubleshooting, and applied coaching. Workshop recordings are available if you need to miss a session.
Core weekly commitment: approximately 2–2.5 hours
20–30 minutes asynchronous preparation
60-minute live workshop
30–60 minutes applied Champion Playbook work
Independent
The same curriculum and Champion Playbook, worked through on your own schedule against the system you manage.
What you need to participate
You should currently own, administer, or play a meaningful role in operating an Airtable system. You don't need to be an Airtable developer.
You do need a real system to work on.
- Champion Playbook
- Applied work against your own Airtable system
- Live Cohort: small-group workshops, office hours, and recordings
- Independent: the full curriculum on your own schedule
Need approval first? View the Leadership Approval Brief
Tell us how you'd like to take the Intensive.
Live Cohort or Independent, just you or a team. We'll use your answers to plan the next offering and let you know when it opens.
Your system already has a Champion. The question is whether they've been equipped for the role.
If you're the person everyone relies on to understand the Airtable system, the role already exists, whether anyone formally named it or not.
Turn that responsibility into an operating practice someone else could understand, follow, and eventually inherit.
Register Your Interest