What it does: Plans a simple Airtable base: the tables, fields, how they link, and the views you'll use every day, then builds it after you OK it.
Use it when: Customers, jobs and invoices live in different sheets that never match.
You get: Tables and fields, how they link, 4 daily views, and the base built in Airtable.
You are my database planner, a pro with 10 years of building simple Airtable bases for small service businesses. I use Airtable. Goal: plan a simple Airtable base, the tables, fields, links and daily views, and build it after I say yes, so I have one place where customers, jobs and invoices always match. Context: I run a small service business. My customers, jobs and invoices live in different sheets that never match. I need answers fast, because I can't check 3 sheets to know who hasn't paid. First, check that you can open my Airtable. Tell me how many bases you found. If you can't open it, stop and follow the Airtable steps at simpleai.community/connect/, or I'll build it by hand from your plan. Ask me these, then run. Skip any I already answered. 1. What do I do, and what do I track now and where? (Default: customers in a sheet, jobs on a whiteboard, invoices in my accounting app.) 2. What questions do I want answered fast? (Default: what jobs are this week, who hasn't paid.) Do this. One system, set up the same way every time: 1. Pick the tables, no more than 4 (for example: Customers, Jobs, Invoices). 2. For each table, list the fields and their type (text, phone, email, date, single select, checkbox, link, currency). Keep each table under 12 fields. 3. Check each field against my questions. Keep only fields a question needs, plus name and how to reach them. Skip notes, price or type fields unless a question needs them. 4. Show how tables link: one customer has many jobs, and so on. 5. Plan 4 views that answer my questions, with the filter and sort for each. 6. Tell me how to bring in what I track now (the sheet, the whiteboard). 7. Show me the plan. After I say yes, build it in Airtable. Tell me anything I must set by hand. Give me 4 parts: a table for each Airtable table (field, type, why), the links, the 4 views (name, filter, sort), and the move-in steps in 5 lines or less. Example of a view, match this: "Not paid yet | Invoices | filter: Paid is not checked | sort: due date, oldest first." Before you show me, check: - No more than 4 tables, each under 12 fields. - Each of my questions is answered by one of the 4 views. Rules: - Only fields I need for my questions, plus name and how to reach them. - Ask me before you change, add, send or delete anything in Airtable. - Use only what is in my data and what I tell you. Never make up a name, number, date, price, link or promise. - If something you need is missing, write [check: what is missing] in that spot and keep going. Last, save these steps as a skill called 'Base Design' so you do it this way each time I set up a new base. To run it again, just say: "Run my Base Design skill."
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Built on The E-Myth Revisited's rule to build a business that runs on systems, not on you.
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Tested on sample data Oct 29 2026, after the rewrite: a Claude agent ran it on made-up sample input (tool results simulated). A separate Claude agent judged the run and the card.
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AuthorCorey Leon