Tagged: spreadsheets
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The future is headless
The real power of AI lies in making LLMs better at using external tools, APIs and headless software.
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Your spreadsheets, supercharged: Deploy as APIs & integrate with AI
Spreadsheets are programs. You can easily make them part of your software stack for AI and automation.
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App Stores for ChatGPT and Claude
Imagine browsing and installing capabilities for your AI assistant, the way you install apps on your phone. It's inevitable.
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Bringing Spreadsheets Into the AI-First Era
The fusion of AI and spreadsheets requires a fundamental rethinking: not bringing AI to spreadsheets, but reimagining spreadsheets for the AI-first era.
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AI Workspaces and Function calls
These are key drivers transitioning LLMs from single-player, generic use to broad commercial adoption in the workplace — but what are they…
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Building a High-Performance Spreadsheet Engine: The Quest for Compatibility and Speed
How rigorous testing and real-world benchmarking help us match Excel and Google Sheets while delivering lightning-fast calculations.
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ChatGPT vs. Spreadsheet powered AI
ChatGPT is not ready for spreadsheet models. It will give you wrong results … and confidently so.
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Introducing: Spreadsheet Powered AI
LLMs are transforming how humans and computers interact. But they need specialized tools for facts and calculations. That's where spreadsheets come in.
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Let Large Language Models handle language
Leave facts to databases, calculations to algorithms, and let LLMs finally bridge the gap between human and computer languages.
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When all roads lead (back) to spreadsheets
GRID doubles down on spreadsheet modeling
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Monetizing expertise through spreadsheet models
Domain experts across a range of domains use spreadsheets to “encode” their unique expertise. Many are looking for ways to monetize it.
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Free-form spreadsheets vs. spreadsheets-as-databases
Take a look at the spreadsheets in your life, and you will notice that every sheet falls into one of two categories:
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How we built a GPT-3 powered spreadsheet formula assistant
It allows our users to write a description of the calculation they’re looking to do and receive a suggested formula in return.
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Generative AI and spreadsheets
Large language models won’t replace financial modelers any time soon, but are here to assist them already
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Launching Scratchpad: GRID evolves into an end-to-end data tool
GRID is on a mission to become the numbers tool for a new generation.
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Blocks and Surfaces: Battlegrounds for the Future of Work
With the rise of next-generation productivity tools I feel that we are about to witness a two-pronged race:
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We built a spreadsheet engine from scratch. Here’s what we learned.
From the very beginning, one of the core ideas behind GRID has been that spreadsheets — and spreadsheet models in particular — can be made…
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Spreadsheets: Where businesses dream about their future
Businesses analyze their past using Business Intelligence, but spreadsheet models are where they dream about the future.
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We can all be numbers people!
Working with numbers and data does not have to be so intimidating.
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What’s next for GRID?
GRID has already given spreadsheets a new face. In 2022 we’re transforming GRID to become the primary tool of choice for modern teams…
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There’s a programming language that rules the world, but doesn’t have a name!
1. ??? 2. JavaScript 3. Python 4. Java 5. C/C++ 6. PHP. …
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GRID adds in-product conversations — extending the power of spreadsheets from exploration to…
I’m thrilled that we are rolling out the next step on our journey to make GRID the tool where modern teams explore and explain matters at…
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Spreadsheets and low-code— it’s the grid, not the syntax
With the rise of low-code products, many have realized that not only are spreadsheets programs, but the syntax that today’s spreadsheet…
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The value of Product Principles
What are Product Principles? Why are they important? How to establish them? …and an example from GRID
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GRID launched: Reflections, insights and gratitude
GRID is now officially out of Beta, and our Pro Plan commercially available.
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How to “pay it forward” without losing focus on your primary responsibilities
I’ve been starting companies for 25 years now, GRID being my fifth as a founder. So I guess that if you buy into the 10,000 hours rule…
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What every product innovator can learn from the spreadsheet history
Understand which shoulders you are standing on, and meet your users where they are already comfortable.
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What Excel and UK’s Covid data can tell us about modern IT infrastructure
As you’ve probably heard, about 16,000 cases of the coronavirus in the UK went unreported because Public Health England used Excel and an…
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Observations from raising a Series A in 2020
Two weeks ago, GRID announced a $12M Series A funding round led by NEA. I thought it might be interesting for fellow entrepreneurs to read…
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GRID: The Backstory
Although we’ve only been working on GRID for a little over 18 months, the backstory is certainly somewhat longer.
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If you understand the spreadsheet, you understand the deal
The one with the spreadsheet is the one with the knowledge.
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A Notebook for Excel (and Google Sheets)
Computational notebooks have taken the Data Science world by storm over the last few years. And for a good reason. They enable transparent…
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Linguists are to text what _____ are to data?
You don’t have to be a linguist to write great text — why do you have to be a data expert to work with data?
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Spreadsheets lack people skills
Spreadsheets are these amazing productivity tools that enable regular knowledge workers to get all sorts of stuff done without having to…
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Spreadsheets as a UI pattern — leveraging knowledge workers’ existing skills
After a somewhat quiet decade or so, the last few years have seen a significant uptick in innovation in the productivity tool space. The…
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Every company has a “spreadsheet fabric”
When talking to people about their spreadsheet usage, I’ve noticed that spreadsheets are so ubiquitous, people tend to underestimate how…
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Spreadsheets, we have a problem!
In previous posts, we’ve talked a lot about how spreadsheets empower domain experts to solve many of their own IT needs:
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How can I get things done NOW (without talking to IT)?
Spreadsheets are the knowledge worker’s answer to the question: How can I get things done NOW?
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The Case for Modern Productivity Tools
Several startups are realizing the power of spreadsheets and the spreadsheet “metaphor” as an end-user development approach: A way to…
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The business world’s love/hate relationship with spreadsheets
Spreadsheets are knowledge workers’ answer to the question: “How can I get this done NOW?”, where “this” can be anything from creating a…
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1978: Spreadsheets = Sorcery
The “father of the spreadsheet” — Dan Bricklin — recently presented remotely for a group of college students at Carnegie Mellon.
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Excel — a Domain Specific Language for Finance?
One of my biggest inspirations when doing background research before starting GRID was Felienne Hermans. I met Felienne first at Strata in…
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The 20 Best Spreadsheet Quotes
In GRID’s deep dive into the world of spreadsheets, we’ve come across a lot of insightful, witty and sometimes somewhat distressing quotes…
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Spreadsheets are programs
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Spreadsheets are programs!
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The 3 types of spreadsheets
We have been taking quite a deep dive into the world of spreadsheets lately. We have analyzed tens of thousands of spreadsheets “from the…
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What’s your level? Six levels of spreadsheet sophistication
In preparing everything from the product features and UI to the go-to-market plan and messaging for GRID, we have realized that it will be…
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Excel vs. Google Sheets usage — nature and numbers
This post was written as a part of research for: GRID — the new face of spreadsheets.
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Export to Excel — business software’s most common feature?
In the analytics industry there is a standing joke that “Export to Excel” is the most used feature of any analytics software. From my own…
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Your biggest competitor is a spreadsheet
This article has also been published on the GRID Blog.
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The first digital data dashboard?
A few weeks ago I wrote about what might be the first computer data visualization.
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3 things you don’t understand about spreadsheets (part 3)
This is the 3rd and final part of a series of blog posts on the origin and nature of spreadsheets.
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3 things you don’t understand about spreadsheets (Part 2)
This is part 2 of 3 in a series of posts about the nature and history of spreadsheets. Make sure to also check out part 1: “Spreadsheets…
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3 things you don’t understand about spreadsheets (Part 1)
The world has a love/hate relationship with spreadsheets.
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Is this the first computer visualization?
For a while, I’ve been on the hunt for what might qualify as the first computer data visualization.
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When Fitbit says “Your data belongs to you!”…
…what they really mean is
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There is no “unstructured data” in analytics
When evaluating analytics and Business Intelligence solutions, people often ask whether the software supports unstructured data.
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100 Random People on Planet Earth
Here are 100 people picked randomly from the population on planet earth:
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A [data entity] by any other name…
When working with data, you’ll quickly realize how useful it is to have reliable unique identifiers to reference individual items or common…
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Dealing with countries — in data
Countries are one of the more common entities one comes across in data sets of all sizes, shapes and topic areas. Often found in a field or…
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Data pivots for Kindergartners
One of the first things many of us are likely to do with data is a Kindergarten or first grade exercise in data gathering that will result…
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Data tables: From Sumer to VisiCalc
The history of tabular data in 5 beautiful prints — now on my office wall
