Yapping at Excel: The $19 AI Tool That Actually Changes How You Work

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We rarely dedicate an entire issue to a single tool. This week, we’re making an exception for something that isn’t even new… but something you probably haven’t tried yet simply because the barrier to entry was too high.

Claude in Excel has been around since last year. What changed is the price. Previously, you needed Anthropic’s Max plan at $100/month to access it, but now it’s available on the standard $19 Pro plan.

We’ve been using it since it came out. We think you should use it, too.

Claude for Excel is an add-in that brings Claude directly into your spreadsheet. Not as a separate window you copy-paste between. It is inside Excel, reading your tabs, understanding your formulas, and making changes in real time. The learning curve is surprisingly gentle: you don’t need to know how things work. It is enough if you can explain what you are trying to achieve, and it just... does it. Across multiple tabs. With formulas that actually work. (And, even better, you can use it with voice dictat…