Airplane AI Agent Integration for Teams

Unlock the combined power of Airplane and Runbear to supercharge your team’s internal workflows. By integrating smart AI agents with Airplane, you can turn complex scripts and queries into natural, collaborative conversations—right inside your favorite team chat apps. Discover how teams are transforming their operations, empowering non-developers, and automating routine tasks, all by harnessing the synergy of AI agents and Airplane.

About Airplane

Airplane was a developer-friendly platform for building and deploying internal tools quickly. It enabled teams to take scripts (SQL, APIs, or even shell commands) and convert them into internal web applications, dramatically reducing the time and complexity of rolling out back-office tools. Airplane’s core features included scheduled jobs, permissioning, audit logs, and collaborative UIs for running scripts. Its primary users were engineering and operations teams at modern SaaS companies, who needed to build, maintain, or automate custom workflows that didn’t fit off-the-shelf software. Before its acquisition and shutdown, Airplane was recognized for accelerating internal tool delivery and providing robust controls for operational teams that needed custom automations fast.

With Airplane’s discontinuation, alternatives like Glide and Illa, plus platform-agnostic AI agents, have become attractive for teams that still need rapid, flexible tooling.

Use Cases in Practice

Airplane’s ability to turn scripts and queries into internal apps empowers technical teams, but many organizations hit bottlenecks when only developers can run or automate these tools. Integrating with Runbear’s AI agent revolutionizes this, giving any team member instant, secure access to Airplane-powered actions through Slack, Teams, or Discord. Here’s how these use cases unfold in real life:

For example, a sales operations manager can ask the AI agent in Slack for "last week’s lead source breakdown". The agent translates this request into an underlying Airplane SQL script, runs it, and shares the chart with the team—no SQL required. Teams relying on scheduled compliance checks (like periodic access audits) can set these to run automatically and post results in their chat with zero human intervention, inspired by strategies from our guide on How to Automate KPI Reporting. During outages, support leads simply message the AI agent: "run recent error logs"—the agent executes the right Airplane script, returning diagnostics and even next steps, similar to the workflows detailed in AI Assistants for Customer Support. Finally, by granting controlled AI agent access, HR staff or non-technical teammates can securely trigger scripts or check status, guided step-by-step—removing the dependency on engineering.

These practical integrations close the gap between powerful backend operations and simple, everyday collaboration tools.

Airplane vs Airplane + AI Agent: Key Differences

Integrating Airplane with Runbear transforms how teams leverage internal tools. Instead of relying solely on technical users or manual Airplane dashboards, an AI agent acts as a conversational interface right inside Slack, Teams, or Discord. This automation enables natural language queries, scheduled reporting, effortless access to operational scripts, and democratized internal tooling—making workflows frictionless and accessible. The table below highlights how the experience improves with Runbear:

Implementation Considerations

When integrating Airplane with Runbear, teams must consider access control setup and secure credential management, especially since non-developer colleagues can now trigger powerful operations via chat. It’s crucial to configure role-based permissions and audit trails to prevent accidental misuse. Training is user-friendly, but organizational readiness should not be underestimated—teams should align on which Airplane scripts are safe for AI agent execution, and establish clear documentation on usage. Additionally, ensure any scheduled jobs or data-fetching aligns with company data governance and privacy policies. Since Airplane is no longer actively maintained, consider the long-term robustness of relying on any legacy tooling, and prepare a migration path to supported alternatives if needed. Cost-benefit analysis is mostly positive, given the vast productivity boost, but teams should weigh operational continuity with Airplane’s sunset.

Get Started Today

Uniting Runbear’s AI agent with Airplane gives your team a smarter, faster, and more collaborative way to harness internal automations. Tasks that once required dev expertise or manual processes are now accessible to everyone in the team, directly from Slack, Teams, or Discord. While Airplane’s future is uncertain, these workflow patterns—with AI agents at the core—set your organization up for greater efficiency, transparency, and agility. Ready to empower your team? Try Runbear’s integration today and transform the way you work—no coding required.