Today we’re thrilled to launch Plato. Plato is Airtable for your SQL database. It’s the easiest way to make your database accessible for business operations such as customer support, customer success, and sales ops. Plato is free today for anyone to play with our sample DB or connect their own.

We created Plato because we noticed something strange. When helping our friends at a fintech startup, we saw that while they had spent weeks building an admin panel from scratch, their accountants seldom used it. They often had to run new queries and track new data that their admin panel didn’t support. Rather than waiting for features, they resorted to dumping CSVs into Airtable, which quickly grew out of sync.

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