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Pain points in business: what people struggle with
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Manual Spreadsheet Cleanup
Users struggle with time-consuming manual cleaning, updating, and analysis of messy spreadsheets, and AI tools often fail to handle them reliably.
In their words
Our main bottleneck is the PDF merge itself.
The thing that eats my time is not analysis, it is cleaning the same messy export every week before I can look at it.
different date formats, weird delimiters, NULL values spelled as "N/A", "NULL", "-", or just blank, inconsistent headers, and duplicate rows that silently break things
I have a dataset, every row will fill out a copy of the pdf.
Paying out the nose for a glorified spreadsheet that somehow still can’t export to CSV without mangling the date format.
I don't have the patience to learn ClickUp. I have a list of what I want, what I need, and need someone to set it up for me
I use ai primarily to create Vba scripts / macros which are deterministic code to automate all sorts of work.
Five Excel spreadsheets with the same client, but different order models, and different figures
Copying a set of numbers from one dashboard into a spreadsheet. That's it. Three minutes.
What is the best way to have PA to refresh Excel’s PQ?
It’s a lot less tedious data processing and excel monkeying
client wants ~45 branded pdfs from airtable rows every monday
I recently made an internal tool for my business where I could upload Excel inventory files and I ended up parsing everything natively then rebuilding the preview with UI tables.
We have some custom data diff tools at my ultracorp that provide a browsable interface
Excel and spreadsheet users
Where they talk
- r/excel
- r/AI_Agents
- r/copilotstudio
- r/smallbusiness
- r/Accounting
- r/Entrepreneurs
- r/microsoft_365_copilot
- r/GeminiAI
Tools they use today
- Excel
- Claude
- Google Sheets
- Copilot
- Power Automate
- SharePoint
- Power Query
- Python
Why those fall short
- AI can't read or write macros into files; memory across sessions poor; token costs high
- no automatic understanding or cleanup of messy sheets
- Python rules and ML failed on countless text variations and edge cases
- Apps dependent on self-filling lose effectiveness with motivation
- PDF round-trip corrupts the .xlsx file; Excel has no grouping or bulk reorder
Map of ideas
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