This lets Claude build and use your business database. There's one setting here that matters a lot — we'll flag it clearly.
Airtable is where all your records live — customers, pools, visits, invoices, and the rest. You connect it to Claude once, and from then on Claude reads and writes it for you. You won't need to open Airtable for daily work.
Connect it
1
Open Connectors in Claude
Go to Customize → Connectors. (Customize is in the left-hand menu.)
2
Find Airtable and click Connect
Airtable is in Claude's connector directory — search for Airtable and click Connect. A secure Airtable sign-in window opens. (No keys, nothing to copy or paste.)
3
Sign in to Airtable
Sign in to your own Airtable account and approve the connection. This brings you to the important permission screen — see below.
The one setting that matters: let Claude create your base
On the Airtable approval screen you'll choose which of your data Claude can work with. Because the next step has Claude build a brand-new database for you, you must grant it room to do that — not just access to something that already exists.
Choose your workspace, not a single base
When Airtable asks which bases to grant access to, pick your workspace and the option worded like “All current and future bases.” Do not pick a single existing base. Your new pool-service database doesn't exist yet, so it can't appear in a per-base list — Claude needs workspace-level permission to create it. Also accept the permissions that mention creating and editing bases and records.
If you only grant one existing base, or read-only access, the next step will fail with a permission error when Claude tries to create your database. If that happens, it's an easy fix: come back here, reconnect Airtable, and this time grant the whole workspace with create permission.
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Airtable's authorization screen: the list of permissions (including “create, edit, and delete bases and their structure”) and the access selector set to a workspace with “All current and future bases” chosen, rather than a single base.
Grant your workspace “All current and future bases,” and accept the create/edit permissions.
Make sure it's your workspace
You need to be the owner of the Airtable workspace you pick (if you just created your Airtable account, your default workspace is already yours). That's what lets Claude add a new database to it.
You don't name or configure anything
That's the whole Airtable step. You don't create tables, copy any codes, or set anything up by hand — the next step does all of it for you. You're just giving Claude a place to build.