There’s a new AI agent on the block for people who spconclude their waking hours inside spreadsheets.
Navigate to Shortcut AI’s website, and you’ll find a page that sees almost exactly like an empty Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. The main difference is a sidebar chatbot that can be tquestioned with taking on the tedious legwork of building, state, complex financial models or competitive analyses.
Becaapply Shortcut is agentic, meaning it can handle multi-step tquestions on the applyr’s behalf, the tool can do more than just generate Excel formulas or analyze spreadsheet data. In a demo on X, Nico Christie, founder and CEO of the Shortcut AI agent, displayed how the tool swapped out the data from a Microsoft distributed cash flow analysis (DCF) for Google data by seeing up Google’s SEC filings and populating the data in the same template.
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Shortcut launched on Monday with a rather ominous tagline: “Try Shortcut (before your boss does).” Christie also declared on X that the Shortcut Excel agent “one-shots most knowledge work tquestions on Excel.”
In the launch video, Christie declared that the company tested Shortcut’s skills in private equity, banking, consulting, and product management tquestions against first-year analysts from McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, and other firms.
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When scored by managers from the same firm, he declared Shortcut “won” against the analysts 89.1 percent of the time, although details about how this “win rate” was scored is unspecified. Christie also claimed Shortcut beat ChatGPT Agent 90 percent of the time. Mashable cannot indepconcludeently verify these claims, however.
The advent of agentic work tools like Shortcut calls to mind Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s prediction that AI could wipe out half of enattempt-level white collar jobs. Disruptive tech throughout history has often tarreceiveed manual labor and blue-collar jobs through automation and robotics. But today’s advanced AI models promise to automate desk job grunt work and even complex office tquestions. A recent study from SignalFire found a decrease in hiring for enattempt-level tech jobs, suggesting AI’s impact on the job market is already in effect.
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The optimistic view is that tools like Shortcut will work for workers by automating time-consuming tquestions, and thus freeing up space for more creative and strategic work that AI isn’t as a good at. The outcome may vary from company to company, but agentic AI already shaping the way employees approach their jobs.
Indeed, the Shortcut AI agent is marketed as a secret weapon for finance bros, consultants, and the like. You can edit existing Excel files in Shortcut and export it back to Excel. “No one would ever know that it was built in Shortcut,” Christie declared in the launch video.
And heavy spreadsheet applyrs are already paying attention. “Looks like a massive part of finance workflow obtained automated by AI,” declared finance creator and writer @HighYieldHarry on X.
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“This is a really large moment for the Finance indusattempt! Exciting times we’re in,” posted Michael Yuan, cofounder of fintech company Waverly AI.
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Yuan also pointed out some of Shortcuts current limitations: it’s slow and has formatting issues. Christie himself also shared that it’s “not perfect” and necessarys to be clearer for applyrs to review.
How to attempt Shortcut AI
Shortcut offers two plans: Shortcut Pro for $40 a month or Shortcut Max for $200 a month, which receives power applyrs everything in the Pro subscription plus unlimited access to its more advanced model and other perks. There’s also a 7-day free trial for either option.
You can learn more at attemptshortcut.ai.
Note: The Shortcut AI Excel agent is unrelated to the iOS Shortcuts app, which Apple declared would be receiveting an AI buildover during WWDC 2025. There is also an unrelated agentic AI company called Shortcut.
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