You have Baserow running on your own server, and you have an AI agent in the chat that can read its files, run commands, and talk to its REST API. Instead of clicking through import wizards and view settings yourself, you can describe the job in plain language and watch it get done. Here are ten everyday jobs worth delegating, ordered from setup to upkeep.

1. Import a Messy Spreadsheet Into a Properly Typed Table

Everyone has a CSV export from an old tool with columns named “col1” and dates in three different formats. The agent can inspect the file, guess the right Baserow field types (number, date, single select, email, link), create the table, and import the rows in one pass. It can also match an incoming CSV to an existing table and update rows by a key like email, instead of creating duplicates. “Import /home/user/uploads/customers.csv as a new table called Customers — use single select for the plan column, date for signup, and email-validate the contact column.”

2. Build a Public Form for Orders, Applications, or Signups

A form view is the fastest way to collect structured data from people outside your company: job applications, catering orders, warranty registrations. The agent can create the table with the fields you need, generate a form view with required fields, a description, and a thank-you message, and hand you the public link. Hidden fields stay hidden from submitters but get filled in automatically. “Create a customer feedback table with rating, comment, and email fields, then make a public form view where rating and comment are required and the page says what we will do with the data.”

3. Turn an Inventory List Into a Working Stock Tracker

A plain list of products becomes useful once it has numbers, thresholds, and a view that shows trouble. The agent can add quantity, reorder point, supplier, and last-restocked fields, then build a filtered grid view that only shows items at or below their reorder point. You get a live “what do I need to buy” list instead of a spreadsheet you forget to open. “Add stock count and reorder level to my Products table and make a view called Low Stock that only shows items where stock is at or below the reorder level.”

4. Add Formula Columns That Do the Math for You

Formulas are where Baserow stops being a spreadsheet clone and starts being a real database. The agent can write formula fields like line total (quantity × price plus VAT), days until a deadline, or a flag that marks overdue invoices, using Baserow’s date and text functions. No more exporting to Excel to do arithmetic. “Add a Total column to Order lines that multiplies quantity by unit price and adds 20% VAT, rounded to two decimals.”

5. Set Up a Task Board With Kanban View

Drag-and-drop Kanban is built into Baserow, but the setup takes a few minutes: a status field, the right card fields, the view itself. The agent does it in one request, can seed it with your existing task list, and can add a calendar view alongside so you see the same work by deadline instead of by stage. “Make a Projects table with a single select status field — Backlog, Doing, Blocked, Done — and a kanban view grouped by status, with assignee and due date shown on the cards.”

6. Build a View That Surfaces Only What Needs Attention

The power move in Baserow is not storing data, it is filtering it so the urgent stuff is on top. The agent can create filtered, sorted views like “Invoices overdue more than 14 days” or “Contracts renewing this month” and tell you exactly which filters and sort it used, so you can adjust them later yourself. “Create a view in my Invoices table called Needs Chasing: status is not Paid, due date is before today, sorted oldest first.”

7. Clean Duplicates and Normalize Sloppy Data

Databases rot: duplicate emails, “ACME” and “Acme”, phone numbers with and without country codes. The agent can query the API, find duplicates, merge rows where it is safe, and normalize formats — with a written report of everything it changed so you can undo it. “Find rows in Customers with duplicate emails, keep the one with the most recent order, merge the rest, and report a list of what you merged.”

8. Share a Read-Only View or Embed It on Your Website

Baserow can share a view as a public link and even generate an embed snippet. The agent can create a shared link with filters locked so visitors only see what you intend, or produce the iframe code to drop into your site — clients see live order status without an account. “Create a public read-only link for my Order status view, filtered to show only this customer’s rows, and give me the embed code for my website.”

9. Reorganize a Database That Grew Wild

Six months in, one workspace holds three unrelated businesses and a table called “table_2”. The agent can list your tables, propose a sane structure, move tables into separate databases, rename everything, and check that link fields still point where they should. Work that is tedious in the UI becomes a single conversation. “My Operations database has tables that belong in Finance. List all tables, propose a new structure, then move the invoice-related tables into a Finance database and rename the unclear ones.”

10. Export a Snapshot Before You Break Something

Before a big import or restructure, take a safety copy. The agent can export each table to CSV or JSON (JSON keeps your field types intact for a cleaner re-import), or trigger a full database snapshot if your setup supports it, and stash the files in a dated folder on the server. “Export every table in my CRM database to CSV under /home/user/backups/2026-10-04/ so I can import them back if my cleanup goes wrong.”

See it in action

Official walkthroughs from the Baserow team:

Worth a watch next:

• Streamline your project management with Baserow: a step-by-step guide — a full project setup tour that matches the everyday views and boards in this list.
• How to collaborate and manage tasks in Baserow — covers the shared views and notifications behind several of these jobs.

Start with one job you already know how to do by hand, so you can sanity-check the agent’s work. Once you trust it, the bigger restructures stop being weekend projects. Baserow on OpenSysLab