# How OpenAI uses Airtable

**50–60**: “50–60 projects summarized by AI fields every week”

As published on [airtable.com](https://www.airtable.com/customer-stories/openai). Captured by usedby on 2026-11-05.

- Company: [OpenAI](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/openai.md)
- Tool: [Airtable](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/airtable.md)
- Industry: [Artificial Intelligence](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/artificial-intelligence.md)
- Teams: Product Operations, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Leadership, Go-to-market

## The use case: how OpenAI deploys Airtable

OpenAI's product operations team tracks every significant initiative in Airtable, with a project per feature, milestones, and weekly updates from project leads. AI fields summarize the updates, flag projects that appear stuck, and catch mismatches between updates and logged milestones, while OpenAI models also turn Slack threads and quarterly planning docs into ranked priorities and briefings.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Airtable and OpenAI, not ours.

> Once those updates started flowing in every week, Airtable's AI fields started working on them automatically—condensing long updates into short summaries, cross-referencing what people wrote against the milestones they'd logged, flagging mismatches.

- **eight-week**: “The result is a rolling eight-week view across 50 or 60 simultaneous projects, with a tighter two-week lens for what's about to ship.”

> So many more people in the organization just have some idea of what's happening, and they can dig in when they need it.
>
> Blake Samic, Head of Product Operations

Source: [airtable.com](https://www.airtable.com/customer-stories/openai), captured 2026-10-03.

## Other AI tools used by OpenAI

- [Clay](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/clay.md) — Confirmed
- [CoreWeave](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/coreweave.md) — Confirmed
- [Databricks](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/databricks.md) — Confirmed
- [Ironclad](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/ironclad.md) — Confirmed
- [Notion](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/notion.md) — Confirmed
- [Together AI](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/together-ai.md) — Confirmed

## Airtable users in Artificial Intelligence

- [Anthropic](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/anthropic.md) — Observed

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-11-05.

- Checked: the figure 50–60 is printed word for word on the page, near the name of OpenAI.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of OpenAI.
- Checked: OpenAI uses Airtable. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-11-05.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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