Speed up your Airtable learning.
Sick of spreadsheets? Airtable Automation Machine will help you build automations that save time and boost productivity.
Spreadsheets are a time-suck
There's no better way to kill your productivity than to be bogged down in redundant tasks.
- Maybe you're sick of entering manual data...
- Maybe your business is taking off and your clunky Excel spreadsheet is just not cutting it anymore...
- Or maybe you've finally calculated the hours and hours of time wasted by using spreadsheets.
Clunky spreadsheets can lead to data errors, never-ending updates, file conflicts, and lost work. Not to mention the lack of organization.
This isn't what you envision your work day looking like, is it?
Automation is the answer
Luckily Airtable is there to make your life easier. You've probably tried Airtable on your own by now. Maybe you even built some bases or tables of your own.
There's just one problem...
Airtable has a steep learning curve.
- How do you link tables?
- How do you create formulas that don't break?
- How do you use blocks to visualize data?
- How can you solve issues with integrations?
The only solution is to spend hundreds of hours searching YouTube for answers and learning on your own...or risk hiring some random freelancer on Upwork.
Or is it?
There's a better—faster—way.
The learning curve for Airtable is steep, but it doesn't have to be lonely.
Instead of trying to learn Airtable on your own, take the smarter path and get expert guidance to speed up your learning and take your automations to the next level.
What if you could:
- Streamline your processes
- Increase your productivity and revenue generation
- Track leads and communication
- Gather and calculate data—automatically
- Assign tasks to your team, based on timelines and priorities
- Migrate all your clunky spreadsheets to a streamlined solution
- Take full advantage of the power of Airtable
- Save hundreds of hours per year
You can. You just need training from an Airtable expert.
Gareth Pronovost
Airtable Expert, YouTuber, GAP Consulting CEO
Hi, I’m Gareth.
In 2017, I was working for a billion-dollar public company that still used spreadsheets to report their data. Reports had to be manually updated and printed on 11x17 paper. I spent hours on redundant data entry and administrative tasks, which prevented me from doing the work I had been hired to do as a financial analyst.
It was a slow, confusing, and inefficient way to work.
With Airtable, all of that changed. I was able to organize data and eliminate hours of daily administrative tasks through automations. Since then, I’ve helped hundreds of businesses harness the power of Airtable to do the same.
With an optimized Airtable set up, your time, money, and focus stay on growing your business.
Introducing: Airtable Automation Machine
Airtable Automation Machine is comprehensive training program that includes a self-paced video course, private community and group coaching.
Course Outline
Click the arrow next to each module to see what you'll learn.
A successful build saves you time by optimizing your processes. This is why we start by mapping your current processes--so you build something that fits how you work.
- Map Out Your Processes
- The Importance of Mind Mapping
- Guidelines To Get All The Right Details
- The Best Tools for Mapping
Before you begin automating and organizing data, you have to understand what Airtable is capable of. In this module, you'll learn Airtable's features, and what each one does for your data. You’ll also learn how to organize your data in a way that gives you clarity and insight, rather than overwhelm.
- Airtable Terminology
- Custom Tool For Planning Tables & Fields
- Exploring Airtable Field Types
- Dependent vs Independent Data
- Identifying Data Sources
Time to build out Bases! In this module, you’ll learn to avoid common pitfalls when planning your Airtable Base. You'll also learn best practices for organizing and managing data fields in your Base.
- Building the Framework
- Linking Your Tables
- Using Lookup Fields
- Using Roll-up Fields
- Using Formula Fields
Ready to automate those repetitive tasks? Be it sending emails, chasing invoices, rescheduling, or manual data entry – this module will help you identify what you should automate, and how to translate that into Airtable. You'll also learn how to use additional software integrations, like Zapier.
- Zapier Terminology
- Your Tool For Planning Automations (Custom built for our students)
- Zapier Built-ins
- Zapier Resources
- My personal list of favorite software choices
It's time to build your automations. In this module, you'll learn the most common automations and how to make them automatically “fire” using triggers.
- Connecting Your Accounts
- All Available Triggers (Airtable, Zapier, Other sources)
- Action Steps For Each Type of Trigger
Before “Setting & Forgetting” your automations, you need to stress test them to ensure you can rely on them. In this module, you'll learn how to do just that. You'll also learn how to troubleshoot errors.
- Test Zaps Before Enabling Them
- Zaps From Updated Records
- Zapier Task History
- Unpacking A Zapier Status
- Common Problems with Airtable Zaps
Blocks are mini apps in Airtable that add layers of functionality on top of your workflow. The problem is the sheer number of Blocks available! It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the choices. In this module, you'll learn which Blocks are the most valuable, and how to use them to get the insights you need.
- Do You Need A Block?
- How to use Summary Blocks
- How to use Chart Blocks
What you will learn
In Airtable Automation Machine you will learn the exact processes, tools, and guidelines we use to build out our easy to use bases and automations--for a fraction of our $6000+ consulting price.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Strategize and build Airtable bases that save you time and decomplicate your work life.
- No longer see Airtable as just a spreadsheet replacement.
- Avoid the most common traps for using Airtable incorrectly.
- Take advantage of Airtable’s most powerful feature- Relational Databases.
- Use my favorite blocks to get key business insights from your data.
Most importantly, you’ll come out of the course with a plan in hand for structuring your data and workflows in a way that’s designed to make you deadly efficient.
In fact, you could sign up for the course today, take the course over the next 6 weeks, and by the end of it, have completely transformed the way you work.
What Could Automating Mean For Your Business?
Here's a few student success stories:
D. Bensted
"We deliver training to three different types of institutions over the whole country. I have set up an event management system with zapier that creates all the tasks and their due dates associated with each type of event as soon as it is created. I use different views to enable people to work with either events, tasks, venues etc. Each event has an associated DropBox Paper doc for notes and communication... The ability to do this has come from what I Iearned from you, plus doing further research."
Diane Elkins
"The biggest benefits for me have been the community connection and on-going support as questions come up and the Airtable brain gets weary. The momentum in project development and the learning curve for Airtable have been much harder without your coaching calls and other resources. Your knowledge combined with your generosity have been game changers for me and my business."
Anna Wolf
"I built the editorial calendar of my dreams (we're a content marketing agency). We've tried every editorial calendar tool out there, but the one we built in Airtable has functionality I've fantasized about for years. Now we have a master calendar of all the content currently in production, while clients get their own personalized calendars AND they can submit content requests that go straight to the calendar. And we're still thinking of ways to make it better. We love it!"
Choose Your Preferred Plan
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MACHINE
$997
- Airtable Automation Course
- All future course updates
- Private Slack community
- Weekly Group Coaching Calls
- Coaching Session Library
- Automation Templates
MASTERY
$1997
- Airtable Automation Course
- All future course updates
- Private Slack community
- Weekly Group Coaching Calls
- Coaching Session Library
- Automation Templates
"We appreciated the step-by-step process that started us at the very beginning of mapping out our processes, taking us through data choices and then into the harder stuff! This made us back up from what we were doing and helped us better SEE where we needed Airtable to take us."
Julie Kessler
Student
"I loved the structure of the course. My favorite chapter was the first one: so helpful for the structure of my database! I’m really excited about the result! Loved your teaching method too! So much clearer than when I try to explain to my colleagues what I’m trying to build…"
Laurence Rivard
Student
Frequently Asked Questions
The course is designed so you’ll learn how to build complex bases alongside me – all of which translates directly over to any base you’d like to build. If you have questions beyond what’s covered in the course, great! I will help you through your specific scenarios inside the private Facebook group.
If you can use a computer and Excel or Google Sheets, you're all set!
Not at all. There are learners of all levels inside the course. You'll learn how to think about automation and how to build your own. You'll also get support for more advanced Airtable bases and formulas during the coaching sessions.
Twice a week, Gareth hosts a group webinar and answers any questions that students have asked. You don't have to attend live - every session is recorded and shared in our Group Coaching Library.
Airtable is like a box of legos and can be built to any shape that you imagine. We see a wide range of industries putting it to use in unique ways. The only real deal breaker we've found relates to HIPAA compliance, which the software isn't currently certified for.
Great question. That's why we show you how to create a strategy, plan your requirements, and outline your automation structure first. So you'll walk away with a process that you can port to any other tool. In this program, you're not just learning how to use Airtable, you're learning how to think about automations.
If you’re not satisfied, contact us within the first 30 days of instruction and we’ll refund your last payment. If you're on the monthly plan, simply cancel your membership!
"Working with Gareth gave me a new level of clarity into the key metrics of our business. Not only did I know exactly what I needed to do to increase revenue, but thanks to the automations, eliminated over 10 hours of weekly repetitive tasks."
Srini Rao
CEO, Unmistakable Media
"I always look forward to my meetings with Gareth due to his seemingly endless knowledge in finances and accounting. Simply put, getting my business off the ground was much easier thanks to having Gareth in my corner!"
