Airtable is a brilliant way for a team to structure its lists, and it gives anyone the freedom to start. Companies outgrow it the day permissions get serious and base number twelve appears, each with its own copy of the customer list. Cordango keeps that freedom and turns those bases into real apps that share one set of company records.
For one team organising flexible data, Airtable is hard to beat.
Cordango is what base twelve wishes it was: a real app, governed and connected.
| Cordango | Airtable | |
|---|---|---|
| Fine-grained roles & permissions | ✓ | ~ |
| One shared data model across apps | ✓ | ✗ |
| Audit trail on every change | ✓ | ~ |
| Build an app by describing it | ✓ | ~ |
| Company directory & SSO built in | ✓ | ~ |
| EU data residency by default | ✓ | ~ |
| Flexible ad-hoc lists for one team | ~ | ✓ |
| Shared company context by default | ✓ | ✗ |
| Governance built into every app | ✓ | ~ |
| Company-owned rather than personal | ✓ | ~ |
| Every user shapes their own interface | ✓ | ~ |
| One platform price instead of per-tool subscriptions | ✓ | ~ |
✓ built in · ~ partial or top-tier only · ✗ not how it works
If half your company’s data lives in share links, that’s the tell.
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