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Notes from the team on building an AI agent for spreadsheets — context management, agent tools, and why token efficiency matters.
Free Excel alternatives: what they can and can't do
An honest look at the free and open-source options — LibreOffice Calc, Google Sheets, OnlyOffice, and engines like Univer. Where they genuinely win, and where Excel is still the king. Written from building GridPath on top of an open spreadsheet engine.
Read the post → July 4, 2026Why we built GridPath
General-purpose AI tools treat a workbook like a wall of text. We built GridPath around two ideas instead: you should control exactly what context the model sees, and the agent should have tools specialized for spreadsheet work. The result is more detailed, faster, and dramatically more token-efficient work.
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