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Implementation playbooks from the field.

Production AI patterns we ship every week. Stuck pilots, MCP hardening, eval suites, agent orchestration, cost control. Written by Alex Cinovoj, Founder and CTO of TechTide AI. No vendor pitches, no recycled blog posts.

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September 2026

DECISION GUIDE10 min · 2026-09-05

Airtable alternatives: decide what must not break before you pick one.

Tool lists answer the wrong question. Four futures for a load-bearing Airtable base, six properties to judge any destination on, and the red flags in a migration quote.

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