Tagged: productivity
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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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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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LLMs as the Interface to Everything
In the near future, we won't 'open PowerPoint' or 'go to Asana'. We'll simply describe what we want to accomplish, and the LLM will handle the rest.
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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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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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Can Generative AI do 10% of Human Tasks?
If generative AI can handle even 10% of human tasks, the productivity gains could double global IT spending. Sam Altman and Satya Nadella think it will.
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When all roads lead (back) to spreadsheets
GRID doubles down on spreadsheet modeling
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ten famous and useful demo data sets
When working with data preparation, analytics and visualization software, a few data sets show up again and again. A short while ago, I…
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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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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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What does a random place on Earth look like?
Despite everything, the world is still a pretty big place — on the ground level.
