Automate Slack and Gmail Messages with Airtable

Still sending the same Slack messages every week by hand?

This course shows you how to build an internal communications system that writes and sends tailored messages for you—automatically, on schedule, and without the busywork.

Using Airtable as your control hub and Slack as your delivery engines, you’ll learn how to send dynamic, personalized messages to the right people at the right time—covering everything from onboarding and anniversaries to birthday shoutouts and team updates. We’ll even show you how to extend the system to send smart, templated emails through Gmail. No coding background needed—just a willingness to think in systems.

Built for internal comms managers, project managers, HR teams, operations leads, and IT admins, this course gives you a plug-and-play framework you can repurpose endlessly.

The first half is completely no-code and beginner-friendly. Later sections introduce optional scripting for those who want to build a more streamlined, flexible system—you’ll get all the scripts and learn how to tweak them with step-by-step guidance and a “vibe coding” approach using LLMs like ChatGPT.

Everything is taught at a relaxed pace with a hands-on, practical approach—and you’ll walk away with a flexible system you’ll barely need to touch again.

Save time. Stay consistent. Build something your future self will thank you for.

This course includes:

• 13.5 hours on-demand video

What you'll learn

• Create a scalable, streamlined system for managing automated Slack messages
• Create dynamic message templates that pull in user attributes
• Sync attributes to Airtable from your organization's source of truth for people data
• Trigger messages based on conditional logic and scopes that reference user attributes
  

Requirements

• You will need an Airtable account with at least a Workspace plan. Business tiers or higher are not required for this course.
• A Slack workspace and a Google Workspace account.
• The course leverages Open AI's ChatGPT(a free account will suffice).
• No programming experience required. We cover how to vibe-code everything that you need and all scripts are provided in the course resources.
• An AWS account is required in the advanced section in the second half of the course; however, this section is option, and you will be able to automate the hell out of your work solely with the knowledge gained from the first half.

Instructor

Kris van Huystee

Automation Educator | Airtable & Low-Code Workflows

Hi, I’m Kris—an automation engineer and course creator based in Ireland. I specialize in helping teams eliminate repetitive tasks using tools like Airtable and Python. Throughout my career, I've helped teams build internal systems that save time, scale with ease, and require zero micromanagement.

With a background in IT, education, and creative media, I teach with a laid-back, practical approach that makes complex workflows accessible—even if you’ve never touched code before. Whether you're in HR, ops, or project management, I’ll help you build systems your future self will thank you for.