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to your tables show an impact preview first, and the preview is rechecked against current data when you accept it, so out-of-date changes do not apply.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.
Read the full contract

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