Tagged: GRID
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
