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Introducing Shortcut v0.6 We released the first Excel AI agent 7 months ago and created a tidal wave Watch 4 messy, real-world examples that no other agent can do accurately The difference between a demo, and a product that top spreadsheet users at 1000's of companies love
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Accuracy (1/2): Shortcut outperforms competitors, from the large labs to the smaller startups that have followed, on the messiest real-world tasks. These examples require work on large and complex models, extracting data from challenging attachments, etc.

Accuracy (2/3) Most Excel work starts with input data. Others struggle with large files, PDFs with embedded images of charts/graphs -- like the Roblox 10-K (where we score 100%), etc. Extract exact numbers from the worst documents

Accuracy (3/3) Excel AI is not meant to one-shot your work -- you will work alongside it. For any single prompt, you might not notice a dramatic difference between most products. The difference compounds fast over an hour, and this is deep agent + product engineering work

Audit-ability v0.6 will now auto open source PDFs and highlight the exact text to audit It's not enough to have the strongest accuracy; we need to give you tools to supervise AI. Rollbacks, multi-agent, multi-chat, comment notes, etc. are all great but they are table stakes

Work with files up to 250MB - Attach entire ZIPs of data rooms - Any file type... shortcut can even compress and edit videos Other agents have a 30MB limit This means real files, like general ledgers wont work Some startups don't even allow excel attachments..

Create almost any file with Shortcut Shortcut can now take your model and your attachments and build PDFs, PPTs, Word Docs... even GIFs Take a full data room, build a model, and turn it into an Investment Memo

Shortcut works across our Excel Add-in, Google Sheets Extension, our Website, and now our Beta API and Beta Desktop App Comment for Desktop & API access (we are rolling out!)

Full details on v0.6

Shortcut v0.6 is live at A moment is coming soon, if not already, where you have to be pretty crazy to not use AI for your spreadsheet work (Excel add-in available on our website too)

The best spreadsheet agent just keeps getting better!

The team is cooking!

Continuing to be first movers. Now we go

Is this AGI?

im feeling it

Can't wait to see someone edit a video on Shortcut ..

Seems cool

let us know how you find it!

Who needs 1.0 when 0.6 is this good? 😄

haha don't tease them!

Very cool. I (/ my analysts) struggle a little with model size and context. We have a beast of a model that is 80 tabs. Revenue reconciliations, really detailed P&L build up across 5 different reporting entities. What’s the best way to help rationalise and analyse the model?

Wow i have not seen 80 tabs before... I would love to put it to the test. DMing you

This is the excel ai that Microsoft & other companies want to ship, but can’t. Been using it for a few months, it keeps getting better

Glad you are loving it! Heads down on improving it for you

This is insane

Incredible

Genuine question... in what way is this better than Claudes excel add in? Why choose this over Claude.

Glad you asked!

Great stuff. Thanks

Difference between getting real work done and a flash in the pan

I’m one of your paid subscribers and am torn between continuing yours and Claude for excel. But I’m feeling the AGI towards v1.0. Keep the subscription at the moment.

Glad to hear! I hope you use both a bunch, make the best decision for you

Looks impressive, but I’ve yet to find an AI that can repeatedly with accuracy extract columnar data from an image or scanned page. Even PDFs often go weird. I’d be interested to know your approach to solving this issue or at least some stat on accuracy.

Absolutely sick great work

thank you sir!

Amazing Nico!

sick

thanks man

Wow, this is getting better faster than I expected - thought we’d be here by mid 27 - impressive

We are already at a point where people are falling behind by not using it, but by 2027 entire companies will be left in the dust

Agreed - I used to be able to plan 10- 20 years ahead, now 1 year seems impossible to plan - the next 2 years will be a shock for many people

I sincerely hope that you will be the company that wins this race in the automated spreadsheet market. Microsoft don't deserve.

congrats! Can i get api access please

yes dm me your email please!

Yesterday I learned that Shortcut can fully process my screen recordings

lol i had it compress a whole video for me too

Amazing work

The team has really been shipping, keep the momentum going🔥

its all we know ❤️

What’s the usage limit on this? Just purchase Claude. will move over if the limits are better.

No one complains about limits. You can purchase credits and they drain much slower

Holy showing my dad this retirement calculator to see if he likes it more than annual pen and paper

Lmk 👀

With big AI labs entering the competition, I would suppose that you'd need to lean heavily on AIs in further development of Shortcut. Mind commenting on that? In any case, I'm rooting for you.

hey nico, i've been using this to build out a few models just for my personal equity investments - but i noticed that: 1. are workspaces constrained to single chat session? (because ideally whenever i open/re-open file, i'd want the note to directly link to the source) (cont)

