Tables is the wedge product of Elastbiz. Buy it once and every partition type in your Elastbiz substrate gains semantic governance: type-aware credentials, AI workers with per-type tokens, row-level audit, business logic, view affordances, automation triggers. Invoices behave like invoices. Projects behave like projects. Inventory behaves like inventory.
Every spreadsheet-as-database tool treats your Invoice, Customer, Project, Ticket the same way — as anonymous rows in an anonymous table. The type is a folder name, nothing more. Business logic lives in your head, not the platform. Every automation, every access rule, every AI query has to re-teach the system what an Invoice actually is.
Tables ships six built-in partition types the platform actually knows: Customer, Project, Invoice, Contact, Deal, Task. Each carries its own semantics — column ACLs, AI-worker tokens scoped to the type, activity log, automation triggers. Add your own via AI-assist and the substrate learns them. Every other Elastbiz app inherits that type knowledge for free.
Tables ships the primitives that mainstream Work-OS tools bolt on with integrations — typed columns, formulas, row-level audit, granular ACLs, an automation engine, and native MCP endpoints so AI agents can CRUD rows without a plugin marketplace.
Customer, Project, Invoice, Contact, Deal, Task — each with its own semantics. Add user-defined types via AI-assist; the substrate persists them alongside the built-ins.
Main Table, Kanban, Calendar, Timeline, Form. Switch views per partition without exporting or re-modeling.
Full nested AND/OR/IF logic, 12 triggers, 12 actions. Rules run in the substrate, not a sidecar — so they see the same partition types your columns do.
Every row can carry its own subtable — arbitrary depth. Not "sub-items with one level" — a true nested partition per row, with independent schemas.
25+ functions, same-row and cross-row evaluation. Rollups over subtables and relations built into the parser (live eval enabling by-partition, in stages).
A purpose-built rows + subtable split — the one view where per-row subtables shine. Absent in Monday, awkward in Airtable, native here.
Any partition can front a public form. Row-level ACL by column — collect from the outside, gate what agents/humans see downstream.
AI agents call list_rows, create_row, update_row, get_row as first-class MCP tools. No plugin, no shim, no vector-DB sidecar.
Every write is logged with actor, timestamp, and diff. Search backwards in time; feed the log to AI workers for context.
Screenshots below are stubbed for now — real captures land next iteration (owner's screenshot pass).
Restrained, evidence-backed snapshot. Full matrix in the competitive analysis.
| Capability | Elastbiz Tables | Monday.com | ClickUp | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per-row nested subtables | ✓ arbitrary depth | ◐ single level | ✓ | Tables ships true nesting; Monday only via sub-items |
| Master-detail split view | ✓ purpose-built | ◐ | ◐ | Only Tables ships a native rows + subtable split |
| Native MCP row CRUD (AI agents) | ✓ first-class | ◐ integration | ◐ integration | Only Tables ships MCP as a first-class row-CRUD surface |
| Formula / computed columns | ✓ 25+ fns | ◐ | ✓ | Real same-row engine; ClickUp deeper on cross-row |
| Self-host / source-available | ✓ ELv2, free | ✗ | ✗ | Only Tables ships self-host at all |
| Row-level activity log | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Parity |
| Kanban / Calendar / Timeline views | ◐ landing next | ✓ | ✓ | Rendering primitives exist; general partition Kanban lands next |
| Group-by | ◐ landing next | ✓ | ✓ | Central rival feature; Tables ships in the query engine iteration |
| CSV import / export | ✗ v1.1 | ✓ | ✓ | Honest gap — planned for v1.1 |
✓ = shipped and used in production · ◐ = partial or scaffolded · ✗ = not present. See the full 40-row matrix for context on views, permissions, and PM overlap.
Tables is one app in the Elastbiz family. Activate it and you get the semantic-governance layer everything else on the substrate reads. Prices are per organization for the cloud tier — no per-seat metering.
Cloud-hosted · unlimited rows · unlimited users on your org.
Adds AI-worker fanout, automation engine, per-column ACLs, activity-log retention.
Free forever under Elastic License 2.0. Run on your infrastructure, own your data.
Self-host + paid support, SSO/SAML, custom SLAs, migration assistance.
The same binary. The same substrate. Move between them with a data export.
We run Tables for you at app.elastbiz.com. Updates, backups, TLS, monitoring — all included. Sign up and start typing.
Docker one-liner. Runs on your laptop, your workstation, your rack, your VPC. Full Team-tier feature set, free under Elastic License 2.0.
Tables teaches your Elastbiz substrate what every partition type actually means — and every other app on the substrate inherits it. Start free on the cloud, or self-host in five minutes.