Cradle
Alternative to Airtable
Also replaces Smartsheet
Records, views and forms in one workspace.
Cradle is a private workspace for a business that keeps its information in tables: customers, projects, campaigns and anything else. You build your own tables with linked records, views, forms and automations, and it works without any AI service.
What it does
- Build tables with text, number, date, select, checkbox and linked-record fields
- Look at records as a grid with sort, filter and group, or as a board or a form
- Preview every structure change, with the records it affects, before you accept it
- Start from ready-made templates such as customer relationships, project tracker and launch readiness
- Run automations that notify people, send email, update records or call a webhook or Slack
- Hand an AI agent a limited key to propose structure changes that only you can accept
- Share data with scoped keys that expire within 30 days
- Bring in spreadsheet tables and export your whole base
What it promises
- RECORDS-002Changes to your tables show an impact preview first, and the preview is rechecked against current data when you accept it, so out-of-date changes do not apply.
- RECORDS-005Importing shows every conversion, rejected row and ambiguous link before anything is written, and can be undone for imported records you have not edited.
- RECORDS-006You can download your complete base, with tables, records, links and views, and a full installation archive from Settings.
- RECORDS-007An agent's proposed change is inert text until the owner adopts it, and the agent's key can never read or write your records.
- AI-003AI never changes a record, sends a notification or saves a view on its own.
- AUTO-003An automation runs once per triggering event, even if a message is delivered twice.
- API-USER-001Access keys are one-time, scoped to one app, expire within 30 days and are stored as digests.
- DEC-004When several people act on a decision at once, the first outcome to save wins.
- OPS-006Money is stored in whole minor units of your workspace currency, and changing the currency relabels amounts without converting them.
Move in from
- Spreadsheet (CSV) tables
- A Cradle base export file
Run it yourself
Install the command once, then clone a product and start it.
Terminal
npx -y @runeditrun/rer cli install
git clone https://github.com/just-every/run-cradle
cd run-cradle && rer dev
No npm? curl -fsSL https://runeditrun.com/install.sh | sh installs the same command.
- Runs on
- Your computer, or your own Cloudflare account
- Version
- v0.2.0
- Licence
- MIT, free