Replacing a spreadsheet that runs your business
Almost every business we work with has one: a spreadsheet that started as a convenience and quietly became infrastructure. It is not a failure of discipline. Spreadsheets are genuinely the fastest way to start — they are just a bad way to continue.
Signs it has outgrown being a spreadsheet
You do not need all of these. Two or three is usually enough to make the maths work.
- More than one person needs it open at the same time
- Someone keeps a personal copy because the shared one gets broken
- A formula broke once and nobody noticed for a week
- Only one person really understands how it works
- You copy data out of it into another system by hand
- It holds something you would be in trouble for losing
What replacing it actually involves
Less than people expect. The logic already exists — it is in the sheet, which means the hard thinking is done. We map how it is really used, including the exceptions people handle manually, build the application around that, migrate the live data, and run both side by side until you trust the new one.
When we tell you not to
If one person uses it once a month and it has never caused a problem, leave it alone. Not every spreadsheet is a liability, and we would rather say so than sell you a project.
A landscaping company had three people editing one scheduling spreadsheet and crews phoning in to ask where they were going. Replaced with a drag-and-drop crew board that texts customers their ETA automatically — dispatch dropped from an hour to five minutes.
Common questions
Can you keep the spreadsheet as a backup?
What happens to years of history in the file?
Tell us what's slowing you down.
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