Welcome everyone. I'm Christoph, co-founder of SeaTable, which many of you probably know already. This is our status update: what happened in the past year, and more importantly, where we're headed.

For those who are new — a quick recap.

That's our one-liner. Self-hosted, no-code, and you build your own processes. Most of you know this already, so let's move on to what's new.

A better description for SeaTable might be this: SeaTable is like Lego. Standard components — tables, forms, automations, views, apps — that you combine to build whatever you need. No programming. Fully self-hostable. From the developers of Seafile.

Last year at CS3 in Munich we had version 5.2. Now we're on 6.0, and 6.1 is around the corner. That mean three releases, hundreds of changes. Let me give you the overview.

Here's everything at a glance. Three releases. Unified comments, a report design plugin, enhanced permissions in 5.3. Native views, AI automations, a completely redesigned automation editor in 6.0. And 6.1 brings an AI chat plugin, an MCP server, and an iOS client. I could spend ten minutes on each of these — but I won't. Because there's something much more important than the individual features.

Let's zoom out and look at the big picture.

This is the real story. Look at the left — that was SeaTable one year ago. A really good no-code database with plugins. Look at the right — that's SeaTable today. The plugins are gone, they're native views now. The app builder has grown up. AI isn't an afterthought, it's built into the automation engine. And with MCP, the AI can actually talk to your data. This isn't an incremental upgrade. It's a platform shift. Let me show you the three major shifts!

Move 1: Native Views: Calendar, Kanban, Gallery are now **first-class citizens** with permissions, sharing, and real-time collaboration.

Move 2: AI Automations: Summarize, OCR, Extract, Classify — running on **your own server**. No data leaves your network.

Move 3: AI Chat + MCP: Ask questions in natural language. The AI queries **your real data** via MCP.

These three changes define the shift. First: plugins became native views. That's not cosmetic — it means permissions, sharing, real-time collaboration, all built in. No more plugin installation, no admin ticket. Second: AI automations. Summarize, OCR, extract, classify — running on our own server in Germany, no data leaves your network. And third: an AI chatbot that can actually chat with your data using MCP — the Model Context Protocol. I'll tell that full story tomorrow. Let me show you what this actually looks like for real users.

Think about a university administration office that receives hundreds of funding applications. Before SeaTable 6.0, you needed a developer, a cloud AI API, and weeks of work. Now, a non-technical staff member sets this up in minutes. The automation runs in the background — one row in, one result out. And the data never leaves your infrastructure.

A facilities team tracking maintenance requests. The Kanban view is now native — every team member sees real-time updates, can comment, gets permissions per column. The department head sees a calendar view of the same data. Same base, different views, proper permissions. No plugin installation, no admin ticket needed.

And here's where it gets really interesting. A project manager opens the chat and asks: "Which projects are overdue? Group by owner." The AI doesn't guess — it queries the actual data via MCP and returns the real answer. This is not a toy demo — this works today. But there's a whole story behind how we built this, how we hit the limits of self-hosting, and why we ended up with a hybrid architecture. That's my talk tomorrow.

Let that sink in. Full AI capabilities, fully self-hosted, accessible to everyone — not just developers. That's what differentiates SeaTable from every other AI integration out there.

If you want the full story about self-hosting AI, MCP, and where we hit the limits — come to my talk tomorrow. I'll share our practical experiences deploying Gemma 3 on GPU infrastructure, the two-stage architecture we built for token optimization, and why the answer is a hybrid approach.

speaker notes Thank you very much. This was the presentation: Status Update of the no-code platform SeaTable SeaTable is the world’s leading self-hosted no-code platform. It empowers teams to design, build, and automate business processes in record time — all without writing a single line of code. Users can easily model their data, manage permissions for internal and external collaborators, and visualize information through a variety of chart types. Built-in automations help streamline workflows and accelerate digital transformation across organizations of any size. With version 6.0, SeaTable introduced AI-powered automations that combine the flexibility of its no‑code environment with the rapidly advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence. SeaTable integrates seamlessly with providers such as OpenAI and also supports self‑hosted large language models. In this presentation, I will highlight the major innovations introduced in SeaTable over the past year and demonstrate how they unlock new levels of efficiency and customization for data-driven teams. qr-code generated with https://qr.io. More Info about the releases at https://seatable.com/blog