Case Study: Faraday Bicycles achieves streamlined issue tracking and parts inventory management with Airtable

How Faraday Bicycles manages their business inventory on Airtable

Faraday Bicycles, a small San Francisco–based e-bike maker, faced fractured workflows and version-control headaches from managing invoicing, customer service, inventory, and logistics in spreadsheets. Operations Manager Victor Lane adopted Airtable to centralize work: he adds coworkers as collaborators, uses a form-generated entry for field failures, and tracks issue and replacement part inventory in realtime.

Airtable’s flexible tables let Lane expand the issue tracker, add fields as needed, and build custom reports to drive purchasing decisions—e.g., filtering to see how many headlights failed in a month. The result is faster, more accurate inventory and issue management (and easier reconciliation than spreadsheets), plus ad hoc project tracking like preparing in-house bikes for resale—all enabled by Airtable.

Faraday Bicycles

Victor Lane

Operations Manager