The Startup Ideas Podcast

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

29 Jul 2025

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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. The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.com LCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/ Boringmarketing - Vibe Marketing for Companies: boringmarketing.com The Vibe Marketer - Join the Community and Learn: thevibemarketer.com Startup Empire - a membership for builders who want to build cash-flowing businesses https://www.skool.com/startupempire/about FIND ME ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenberg Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/ FIND NICO ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://x.com/nicochristie Shortcut: https://www.tryshortcut.ai

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