Retirement plans for business-critical spreadsheets

Retire the spreadsheet.
Hire an AI agent.

Your team wastes hours every week on manual spreadsheet work — exporting, pasting, fixing, re-checking. Quadratic rebuilds those processes as AI agents that run the whole flow, end to end.

Hire an agent Watch a sheet retire ↓
Reading the sheet…
payout_reconciliation_Q3.xlsx
Sep 02$8,240.00$7,977.86
Sep 09$11,410.50$11,054.60
Sep 16#REF!
Sep 23$3,118.00$2,996.40
Sep 30#VALUE!
Sep 30$31,500.00?????
6 hrs/week · breaks quietly · one person knows how
RETIRED
quadratic agent · payout_reconciliation · on shift live

Fetch

Stripe API · CRM export · inbox attachments

Reconcile

match payouts to invoices, your rules exactly

Judge

anomalies flagged to a human — never guessed

Deliver

in whatever format the team wants

OUTPUT email to finance@
The problem

The process is now automated. The sheet was never the point.

Reconciling revenue. Triggering reorders. Calculating commissions. These are business processes — and the spreadsheet was just the only tool available to build them in.

So the process inherited the sheet's weaknesses: a pasted-over formula, a sort applied to one column, a ritual that lives in one person's head and leaves with them.

The failures don't announce themselves. They quietly become wrong numbers in a board deck, a missed reorder, an overpaid invoice. The process deserves better infrastructure than a grid of cells.

Every Tuesday, 9:00 AM
9:00Export payouts from Stripe, again
9:20Paste into the master sheet, fix the date formats
9:45VLOOKUP against the CRM export
10:10#REF! — someone deleted a column
10:40Rebuild the lookup, re-check totals by eye
11:15Email finance. Hope it's right this time.
How it works

Your spreadsheet is the spec, now automated.

Everything the new hire needs to know is already encoded in the sheet and the ritual around it. We read both — and rebuild the process as an agent that runs it.

STEP 1

Upload the sheet — as the spec

Drop in the workbook exactly as it is today. Its formulas, quirks, and workarounds are the requirements doc for the agent that replaces it.

STEP 2

We map the real process

You describe what happens every week in plain English — the exports, the checks, the exceptions. That becomes the agent's standing instructions.

STEP 3

The agent takes the job

Fetch, reconcile, decide, deliver — on schedule or on trigger. Want a spreadsheet at the end? It can write one. Want no spreadsheet at all? Even better.

What the agent does

What you're hiring: an operator, not a smarter spreadsheet.

Fetches the data itself

Payment processors, CRMs, inboxes, portals, CSV exports. No more downloading files into a folder called "imports" — the agent goes and gets it.

Runs your rules exactly

The exceptions, the rounding, the one client billed differently — everything your sheet encoded survives the conversion, and runs the same way every time.

Flags, never fakes

A number that looks wrong gets routed to a human with context — not papered over. Anomalies become review items, not surprises in the P&L.

Delivers in any format

An email to finance, a Slack summary, a dashboard, an API call — or yes, a clean spreadsheet, freshly written on every run. Output is a choice now, not the process itself.

In the wild

Processes that used to be spreadsheets.

Finance ops

Monthly close reconciliation

a sheet + 6 hrs of matchingan agent + 20 min review
Ecommerce

Inventory reorder sheet

a sheet checked dailyorders placed at 6 AM
Agencies

Client reporting rollups

12 sheets by handone agent, reports sent Mondays
Sales ops

Commission calculations

a sheet disputed quarterlyverified, logged, paid on time
The obvious question

"What if the AI gets it wrong?"

Review before commit

For sensitive workflows, the agent stages every run and a human approves before anything is written, sent, or ordered. You choose which processes get the safety catch.

A full audit trail, always

Every run produces a step-level log: what was fetched, what was decided, what went out the door, and why. Your auditors will like us more than you do.

Humans stay in the loop

Anything outside the agent's confidence — a 3× payout spike, a vendor it hasn't seen — is flagged and held, not guessed at. Wrong-but-confident is not in the job description.

agent_run_log · payout_reconciliationLIVE
The alternatives

You've priced the other options. That's why the process still lives in a sheet.

vs. hiring developers

Six months and $150K

Custom software means specs, sprints, and a rebuild of logic your sheet already encodes correctly. Many of these projects never ship.

vs. vertical SaaS

Migrate, retrain, conform

Off-the-shelf tools make your process fit their product. Your team abandons it in a quarter and quietly goes back to the sheet.

vs. macros & Zapier

Brittle by design

Rule-based automation can't handle judgment: a renamed column, a weird invoice, an exception. It fails silently — the exact problem you have now.

QUADRATIC AGENTS → Your process, minus the fragile sheet. Live in days, flags instead of breaking, and outputs whatever the team wants — including a spreadsheet, if old habits die hard.
Start here

Bring us the sheet. Leave without it.

Share the sheet and describe the flow, or book a call. We’ll build the agent and show it running your process, usually within 48 hours.

Takes about two minutes. No spreadsheet is harmed until you approve its retirement.