Lotics vs Airtable

Airtable is a flexible database: a team builds its own tables and interfaces, or has Airtable's AI build them. Lotics is where AI enters the data, makes the documents and drafts the invoices on the company's own records.

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Updated October 2026. Each fact about Airtable cites its source.

Choose Airtable when

  • Your team is used to building its own tables and interfaces, and works in English.
  • You need a flexible database with ready connections to Slack, Jira and many other apps.
  • The work is mostly tracking projects, content and campaigns, with no Vietnamese e-invoices.

Choose Lotics when

  • Your staff retype data from photos, email and Zalo into spreadsheets and documents every day.
  • Every day the company issues delivery notes, handover records and e-invoices to customers.
  • The whole team works in one system, including people who don't read English.

At a glance

AirtableLotics
What it isA table-database platform: a team builds its own tables, interfaces and automations, or has Omni, Airtable's AI, build them.AI business management software: the data, an app for each desk and automations, where AI does everything the company needs and gets better at its work the longer it is used.
Built forTeams that build their own tools for projects, marketing, sales or operations.SMBs that still enter data and prepare documents and invoices by hand, starting with logistics and supply chain.
AIOmni builds tables, interfaces and automations and answers questions on the data; AI fields read files, summarise and categorise. Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini connect officially on every plan, reading and writing records but not their change history.ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or the built-in AI, able to do anything a person can.
SetupThe team builds it, or has Omni build it from a description.Your AI builds it from the files the company already uses in about 10 minutes, or the Lotics team does it for you.
E-invoicesNo built-in connection to Vietnamese e-invoicing.AI drafts e-invoices in MISA, BKAV or WinInvoice for the accountant to review and sign.
PriceFree plan for individuals and very small teams. Team is $20 and Business $45 per person who can edit, a month, billed annually. Source: Airtable pricingStart free. Paid plans from $60 a month, with unlimited users.

Where they differ

Documents and e-invoices

Delivery notes, handover records and invoices are where the most retyping happens: the figures are already in the system, yet someone copies them into the company's templates and into the e-invoicing software, line by line. The documents must match the forms customers already receive, and the invoices must go through the company's own e-invoicing provider.

Airtable
Filling the company's own Word or Excel templates takes a third-party app from the Airtable Marketplace. No built-in connection to Vietnamese e-invoicing.
Lotics
AI fills the company's own PDF, Word and Excel templates from the records, and drafts e-invoices in MISA, BKAV or WinInvoice for the accountant to review and sign.

Experience that stays

Who changed which customer's rate and when, and how a job was done last time, usually lives in the head of whoever did it. When the AI can read that history alongside the company's prices and procedures, the next job starts from how the last one was done, and people who leave don't take the know-how with them.

Airtable
Airtable keeps each record's change history: 2 weeks on Free, 1 year on Team, 2 years on Business. It can only be viewed record by record; neither its API nor its connector for ChatGPT and Claude returns it. Source: Airtable Help Center
Lotics
Every change to every record is logged: who changed which field, and when. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or the built-in AI reads that history alongside the company's knowledge docs (prices, procedures, customer terms), within the access of the person asking.

Vietnamese

The people entering data at the warehouse, the gate and in accounting have to read every button and every error message. In the language they read every day, they work on their own, with nobody translating or sitting beside them.

Airtable
The interface comes in English, French, German and Spanish, not Vietnamese. Table names, column names and the data you enter stay as you write them. Source: Airtable Help Center
Lotics
The interface and the AI work in Vietnamese, so staff need no English.

Price

The software bill grows with each person who enters and edits data. When the warehouse, the gate and accounting all work in one system, the way it is priced decides whether the company lets more people in.

Airtable
Charged for each person who can edit, in US dollars: $20 a person a month on Team, billed annually. People who only view aren't charged. Source: Airtable pricing
Lotics
Start free. Paid plans from $60 a month, with unlimited users.

Moving from Airtable to Lotics

  1. Download each Airtable table as its own CSV file.
  2. Hand those files to your AI (ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini) with the setup prompt.
  3. It builds the tables, apps and document templates in Lotics from the columns in each file, then imports the data.
  4. Keep Airtable for tables outside operations, such as projects or content, if the team wants.

Rather not do it yourself? The Lotics team does it all, from $60 a month. See pricing

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Frequently asked questions

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Airtable is a table-database platform from Airtable, a company based in San Francisco: a team builds its own tables, interfaces and automations, or has Omni, Airtable's AI, build them.

Airtable is good for a team that wants to build its own tools: flexible tables, many interface layouts, ready connections to Slack and Jira, and an official connector for Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini on every plan. For a Vietnamese business, its interface has no Vietnamese, it has no built-in e-invoicing connection, and filling the company's own templates takes a third-party app.

For operations data, yes: tables, an app for each desk and automations are all in Lotics, along with the company's own templates and e-invoices. A team that tracks projects and content in Airtable, connected to Slack or Jira, can keep Airtable for that.

Yes. Projects and content stay in Airtable; the operations records, documents and invoices live in Lotics. If your AI is connected to both, it can read one to work in the other.

On those two, they are close: Omni, Airtable's AI, builds tables, interfaces and automations from a description, and Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini connect to Airtable officially. The difference is the daily work: in Lotics, AI makes the documents from the company's own templates and drafts invoices for the accountant.

Not by training: it reads. In Lotics every change to the records is logged, and the company's prices and procedures sit in knowledge docs, so each person's AI reads how a job was done last time and does it the same way. The longer the company works in it, the more the AI has to work from, even after the people who did the work have left.

Two ways: download each table as a CSV file, or let your AI read the tables through Airtable's official connector and rebuild them in Lotics. Move photos and attachments straight away, because the links in a CSV export expire after a few hours.

Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, hosted in Singapore. Each person sees only what they are given access to, and every change records who made it and when.

Yes. The Lotics team builds and keeps the system up to date for you, from $60 a month, with a 3-month minimum.

Start free. Paid plans from $60 a month, with unlimited users. Your own ChatGPT or Claude uses no AI Credits.

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