Claude in Excel

David Parrelli and his team looked at Excel—the tool that literally runs a huge chunk of the global economy—and said "what if you could just talk to your spreadsheets?" That's Claude in Excel, and it's exactly what it sounds like: Anthropic's Claude AI directly inside your worksheets, ready to fix formulas, build models, and stress-test scenarios with plain English commands. No more wrestling with VLOOKUPs at 2 AM or praying your nested IF statements don't break. You just ask, and it builds.

Here's why this matters: Excel has over 750 million users worldwide and it's been essentially the same pain in the ass for decades. Formulas, macros, pivot tables—it's powerful but it's also a walled garden that requires years of suffering to master. Claude in Excel blows the doors open. You want a sensitivity analysis? Just ask. You need to find the error in your revenue model? Tell Claude. It's Copilot's older, smarter cousin who actually understood the assignment. This is what happens when the best AI model meets the world's most used software.

The team includes David Parrelli, Mihir Kanzariya, Devon Kelley, Jarmo Tuisk, Rohan Chaubey, Kyle Turman, Ephraim Tekle, and Kevin Garcia. Whether you're a financial analyst drowning in due diligence or a founder who's "pretty good with spreadsheets," Claude in Excel just made your entire workflow a conversation. Welcome to the future where your spreadsheet talks back.