In 1983, “Australia II” famously won the America’s cup, defeating the United States and ending their 132-year unbeaten reign. Skippered by the indefatigable John Bertrand and designed by Ben Lexcen, a brilliant and unconventional innovator, this unknown team from the land down under had one heck of a trick up its sleeve: Australia II was the first yacht to feature a winged keel under the boat. This radical innovation was the key to Aussie victory and conclusively proved that when it comes to performance, design makes all the difference.
Fun fact: Sourcetable is led by Australians too.
Today, we are announcing the launch of Sourcetable’s autopilot mode. A world’s first, our “self-driving spreadsheet” can now do the work for you. This includes creating pivots, writing cross-tab VLOOKUPS, cleaning data, and generally taking the toil out of laborious, time consuming workflows. How it works is you tell the spreadsheet what you want it to do, and it does it. Simple as that!
For best results, use voice mode and talk to Sourcetable the way you would an analyst or direct report when describing a task. Sourcetable’s AI will interpret the instructions, create a plan of action, and execute on it step-by-step until it is done. If it gets stuck, it might ask you for clarification, but it’s a lot faster and easier than doing all that work yourself.
This breakthrough was made possible by Sourcetable’s unique AI-native architecture which allows our AI assistant to engage in thought-driven decision making, take actions on your behalf and make edits directly in the spreadsheet. If you’ve been lucky enough to be driven around in a Waymo, then you will know the feeling once AI takes the wheel.
Sourcetable’s AI leverages best-in-class models from commercial and open-source providers. These are optimized for the context of your spreadsheet and workflow, with Sourcetable’s Autopilot automatically selecting the best model for the task at hand. This ensures the optimal mix of quality, accuracy, and fast response times. All AI models used by Sourcetable are hosted on our servers or leverage the the paid, non-training tiers of 3rd party service providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Llama (Meta), Groq, NVIDIA, and AWS.
Under the hood, all users have access to a virtual environment in Python, with hundreds of tools, agents, models and libraries at their disposal. These hum away in the background validating answers, evaluating results, and expanding Sourcetable’s capabilities for the many questions and tasks you might have. If you’re curious, there’s a whole new world of analysis to discover. (More on this in a future release.)
And don’t worry, you don’t even need to know what Python is to access these new capabilities: just ask for what you want, and Sourcetable will utilize them on your behalf to complete the task at hand.
As with any new technology, Autopilot mode won’t be prefect. It’s not as fast as we would like, and it could always be smarter and more capable, but it’s a sea change from the days of manual spreadsheet work, and a big leap forwards from the question-and-answer AI you’ve probably been using until now.
Put another way, Sourcetable is not your father’s spreadsheet — it’s something new entirely.
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Funding Announcement — Sourcetable closes $4.3m Seed Round.
If you’ve seen the news today (Forbes) then you may have read about our latest funding announcement. We’re thrilled to announce that Sourcetable has closed its $4.3m seed round led by Bee Partners with new participation from Julien Chaumond (co-founder / CTO, HuggingFace), Preston-Werner Ventures (Github Co-founder), Trac.VC, Roger Bamford (Distinguished Architect at MongoDB), and James Beshara (co-founder, Magic Mind). Welcome to the team!
This fresh round of capital allows us accelerate Sourcetable’s mission of making data accessible to everyone.
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As always,
The future of spreadsheets is Sourcetable!
