Airtable at scale: what breaks first and how do you work around it?
Record limits, linked table performance, formula complexity — what pain did you hit at 10k+ rows, and what was the workaround that bought you the most time?
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Interesting framing. The bottleneck in our case wasn't where we assumed. Worth a short experiment before committing to a solution.
This matches what we saw. The part that surprised us was how long it took for the team to trust the new approach.
Defining 'good enough' before starting rather than after the work is done made a real difference for us.
Documentation and worked examples mattered more than tooling for us — especially when adoption was uneven across the team.
Who owns the decision vs. who owns the outcome is the execution detail that matters most in our context.
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