The Startup Ideas Podcast

This Excel AI Agent Built Me a $1M Financial Dashboard in 10 Minutes (LIVE Demo)


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Join me as I chat with Nico Christie where he demos Shortcut, an AI-powered spreadsheet tool that functions like "Excel built for the future." Through several live demos, he shows how the platform can create financial models, update existing spreadsheets with new data, and build custom analysis tools using simple natural language prompts. The product aims to make Excel-based work significantly faster while maintaining transparency about data sources and calculations.

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

Checkout: 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.

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