DeepSky acquisition powers Superagent launch

Airtable used DeepSky to buy a finished AI research engine instead of building one piece by piece. The deal gave Airtable a working multi agent product, a founder led team already focused on long running research tasks, and a clear bridge from answering a business question to turning that answer into an Airtable workflow or app. That made Superagent a fast path into a new standalone product category.

• DeepSky was acquired on October 13, 2025, and Airtable said the founding team, Chris Chang, Forrest Moret, and Mark Huang, plus 12 employees joined. Airtable kept Chris Chang leading the product, which suggests the goal was to preserve a specialized research agent team, not just absorb talent into the core app.
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• Airtable positioned DeepSky as the front end for open ended research and Airtable as the system where that output becomes ongoing work. In practice, that means a market map or competitor report can turn into a live base that tracks updates, assigns owners, and triggers follow up workflows.
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• This also marks a business model expansion. Airtable said Superagent, launched January 27, 2026, is its first standalone product in 13 years. That moves Airtable beyond selling a flexible database seat into selling finished research outputs, closer to AI native work products than classic no code software.
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Going forward, the important question is not whether Airtable can add AI inside its base product, but whether it can own both sides of enterprise knowledge work, research on the way in and execution on the way out. If that connection holds, Superagent becomes a new top of funnel and a new revenue layer for the broader Airtable platform.