Thread by @nicochristie

Shortcut – the first superhuman excel agent – is live.

While not perfect, Shortcut beats first year analysts from McKinsey/Goldman head-to-head 89.1% (220:27) when blindly judged by their managers.

We even gave humans 10x more time.

Try Shortcut now (before your boss does).

Shortcut is what Copilot/Gemini should have been.

It’s not a one step copilot. Think of it like your own personal analyst.

Grab a coffee while Shortcut gets you +90% there.

Shortcut turns beginners into experts and it gives Excel experts superpowers.tryshortcut.ai

It's not enough for Shortcut to be better and 10x faster.

It needs to be super easy to review.

The review changes feature shows you the before and after for every task.

Click into hard coded cells for exact source citations or references.

Users on the MAX plan get early / included access to “Analyst” – a hire-able agent that can run 10x in parallel, making it 100 times faster than a human analyst.

This feature is in early preview and has much improvement left ahead of gen release.

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There are areas where it’s much weaker than humans:

1) Formatting gets lazy
2) Existing sheets are much trickier than new ones
3) Huge files can crash
4) XLSM (macros) not supported yet

Still, users at hundreds of companies like Ares, PWC, SOFI, etc. are using Shortcut daily

Here is a detailed walkthrough of real tasks. You can loosely break Excel work down into 3 buckets.

1) Building Models from scratch
2) Filling out files
3) Editing and overwriting existing files

These are progressively harder. Even first year analysts are better at 3 (for now)

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