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Excel & Automation Resources

Free templates, real MIS builds, and hands-on tutorials on Claude for Excel, Gemini in Sheets and Copilot — the same Excel-and-automation craft that quietly grew into 7AM & Realtime CFO™. Data first, always. AI only touches what's already verified. Start here, no matter what stage your Excel is at.

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Why Start Here

Every system I've built started as a broken spreadsheet.

A ₹37 crore fundraising model, an oil & gas sampling manifest, a manufacturing company's entire MIS pipeline, a payroll TDS engine for dozens of employees — every one of them began life as a messy Excel file. 22 years of fixing exactly that is what earned trust long before "Finance OS" existed as a word. This page is that craft, given away freely.

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AI Inside Your Spreadsheet — Claude, Gemini & Copilot

Plenty of people teach "AI in Finance" in the abstract. Almost nobody shows the exact, cell-by-cell mechanics inside a real financial model — across whichever tool you actually use. That's the gap this series fills.

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Claude for Excel

Cell-level citations, formulas that stay intact when assumptions change, debugging #REF!/#VALUE!/circular references, and full models built from templates — natively inside Excel.

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Gemini in Google Sheets

Formula building and fixes, trend and pattern analysis, charts and pivot tables from a prompt, and context pulled straight from Drive and Gmail.

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Microsoft Copilot in Excel

Formulas and calculations across sheets, editable charts and PivotTables, insights with trends and outliers, and web data pulled in with citations.

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Starting with Claude for Excel — Gemini & Copilot tutorials follow

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Debugging #REF!, #VALUE! & Circular References

How Claude for Excel finds and fixes the errors that used to take an afternoon of manual tracing — with cell-level citations you can click straight to.

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Change Assumptions Without Breaking Formulas

A walkthrough on a real fundraising-style model: update growth or cost assumptions and watch every dependency stay intact.

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From Trial Balance to MIS in Minutes

Turning a raw Tally/ERP trial balance into a clean management summary — the exact task behind most of the MIS work in this practice.

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Honest note: Claude for Excel doesn't run macros/VBA and isn't a substitute for review before a final deliverable — it's shown here exactly as it is, limits included.

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How far can VBA actually go? This far.

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Tradesimply — A Live Trading App, Built Entirely in Excel

VBA and Zerodha's API, wired into a live NSE data feed — buy/sell/freeze trading functions, real-time price movement, and running Hindi + English commentary, in a spreadsheet, before Excel 365's dynamic-array functions even existed. Not a template. Not a mockup. A working trading application, built the same way every free resource on this page is: cell by cell, from scratch.

VBA + Zerodha API Live NSE Data Feed Commentary in 30 Languages Before Excel 365 Existed

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Free Templates

Start here — no cost, no login walls beyond a quick intro

The Excel-first starter kit. Deeper paid versions, plus Power BI, Google Sheets and automation kits, live on the full Templates & Automation Kits page.

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GST Reconciliation — Starter

A basic GSTR-2B vs Purchase Register matcher — flags mismatches so you stop discovering them at filing time.

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Excel MIS — Starter

A ready-made monthly MIS shell — trial balance in, a clean management summary out, no macros required.

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Pre-Funding Financial Checklist

The finance documents, reconciliations and clarity checks investors actually ask for — built for founders preparing for a seed or growth round.

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Go As Deep As You Need

Excel is the start. Here's the full path.

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Excel & Finance

Where it starts — 22+ years of Excel, MIS and financial modeling, now with Claude for Excel. You're here.

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Power BI, Tableau, Looker

When a spreadsheet needs to become a live dashboard your whole team can see.

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SQL & Data

When the numbers outgrow a spreadsheet and need to live in a proper database.

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Automation — n8n, AI Agents

When the whole reporting cycle should run itself.

Step 1 of 4 — Excel. Once your data is clean, the natural next step is seeing it as a dashboard, not just a document.

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Try the Cash vs Profit Leak Finder

The same Excel logic taught above, built into a free tool. Enter your numbers or upload a CSV and see exactly where your profit is stuck as cash.

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