Is Microsoft Excel's 40-Year Reign Ending? 🚀

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Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
00:53 - Overview of Shortcut
02:08 - First Demo: How Shortcut works with Existing Excel files
04:44 - Different User Types Who Benefit From Shortcut
08:50 - How to Prompt Shortcut Effectively
11:20 - The benefits of Using Shortcut
13:42 - How Shortcut handles data verification and transparency
17:03 - Best Use Cases for Shortcut
19:03 - Obvious ideas and market opportunity
22:23 -Building a Utilization Model for Agencies
34:59 - Greg's Custom Utilization Rate Dashboard Demo
39:29 - Who should try Shortcut

https://www.tryshortcut.ai

Key Points:
• Shortcut is an AI-powered alternative to Excel that allows users to create and modify spreadsheets using natural language prompts
• The tool can perform complex financial modeling tasks in minutes that would take hours in traditional Excel
• Shortcut provides transparency by showing data sources and allowing users to trace where information comes from
• The platform serves both Excel experts (making them faster) and non-experts (making complex spreadsheet tasks accessible.

1) What is Shortcut?

Think "Excel if it was built in 2024" with a superhuman AI agent that:

• Looks exactly like Excel (but way smarter)
• Understands plain English commands
• Does 90% of your spreadsheet work for you
• Works with existing Excel files

No more struggling with formulas or macros!

2) The Demo That Blew My Mind

I watched Nico:
• Update an entire Microsoft DCF model with Google's latest financials
• Pull data directly from 10-K filings
• Fix formula errors automatically
• Create a complete agency utilization dashboard from scratch

All with simple English prompts. No Excel skills needed!

3) The Trust Factor

The biggest concern with AI + financial data: "Can I trust it?"

Shortcut solves this brilliantly:
• Shows exactly which values are hard-coded vs. formula-driven
• Cites sources for every piece of data
• Displays the exact page from financial documents
• Explains its reasoning

You're still in control, just 10x faster.

4) Two Types of Users Who NEED This

Excel Experts: Turn hours of work into minutes
Excel Novices: Instantly become an Excel wizard

"I'm not a big Excel guy... I want to manipulate it but I'm scared I'll break something" - me

Shortcut makes EVERYONE an Excel power user overnight.

5) How It Works

The magic is in the prompting:

• Start with a vague request ("Build me a P&L")
• Shortcut asks clarifying questions
• It builds exactly what you need
• You can refine with follow-up prompts

It's like having a finance team in your pocket that works at AI speed.

6) Real-World Applications

In the demo, we built:
• A complete financial projection model
• A detailed agency utilization dashboard with benchmarks
• A DCF model with data pulled from SEC filings

All in MINUTES instead of HOURS or DAYS.

7) Why This Matters

Excel has been around for 40 YEARS and has 2 billion users.

But it was designed for a different era.

Shortcut isn't just making Excel easier - it's fundamentally changing WHO can do financial analysis and HOW QUICKLY they can do it.

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