Most people don't ask AI hard enough questions.
Most people don't push AI hard enough. Give Claude your legacy Excel spreadsheets and ask specific questions about what each tab does, which cells drive your final price, and what was entered manually versus calculated. Get it to name every sheet and cell so you can verify the answers yourself. You
As seen on LinkedIn Read the original post and the comments (opens LinkedIn in a new tab)You probably have some old formulations in an Excel file that someone built years ago and then left. The file still runs the business, and nobody wants to touch it. Enter Claude.
Give it to Claude and ask 3 things. What does each tab do? Which cells feed the final price? Which numbers were typed in by hand instead of calculated? Tell it to name the sheet and cell for every answer, so you can click over and check it yourself. Why not ask it to update the formulation with more sustainable chemistry?
You end up with a plain English map of a file that has new life in the business.
NOTE: Macros are the one gap. Anything a macro does still needs a person who knows the file.