What AI Cannot Do in a Day: The Task I Gave Up On
What AI cannot do in a day is anything you can't check yourself by tonight. I quit a price audit 13 tools in. Here's the line, and how to spot it.
What Airtablecosts, what you get without paying, and the limits, verified against the vendor’s own pages, plus the one-day projects it shows up in.
Visit Airtable ↗Has a free tier · see the tiers below · Verified July 2026 · No one-day test yet: these are verified facts, not a review.
The Free plan gives you 1,000 records per base, unlimited bases, up to 5 editors, 100 automation runs per month, 1 GB of attachment storage per base, and Interface Designer plus the mobile apps. Email automations on Free only reach verified collaborators in the base, not arbitrary external recipients.
| Tier | Price | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | forever |
| Team | check current pricing | per seat / month |
Prices verified July 2026, we re-check every 60 days.
What AI cannot do in a day is anything you can't check yourself by tonight. I quit a price audit 13 tools in. Here's the line, and how to spot it.
I tried to set up a freelance CRM with AI in a day. The dedicated tool wasn't the answer, the $0 spreadsheet nearly was, and here's where it broke.