Fundamental Research Labs

Building machines with fundamental human qualities

Makers of the strongest spreadsheet agent @tryshortcutai

[Robert Yang @GuangyuRobert]

I'm rebuilding Excel

Excel was designed for floppy disks and fax machines, we deserve something better now

Run xlsx headless, API for agents + UX for humans, colab, embeddable

Mog is the new way to Excel

Free, Open source, Building in public: https://t.co/5KXgG1XQZG

[nico @nicochristie]

@tryshortcutai Link to case study:
https://t.co/y96VIweL6r

[nico @nicochristie]

For the second time now, @tryshortcutai was independently ranked as the top Excel AI agent in the world.

We specifically build for the top analysts, and this matches what we see on the ground.

It's firmly us, then Claude, or your firm forces Copilot upon you.

[nico @nicochristie]

GPT 5.5 is now live on @tryshortcutai

GPT-5.5 is genuinely a bit more intelligent than Opus 4.6/7 on the very hardest end-to-end tasks, but it's less verbal and still less tasteful on formatting.

Try it, it will come down to personal preferences now for Excel.

[nico @nicochristie]

We have been testing GPT 5.5 on the hardest spreadsheet tasks in the world (100k-1M+ cell complex models).

It is the Pareto frontier for spreadsheets -- SOTA accuracy, the fastest and the most efficient public model across effort levels.

OAI really cooked here

[nico @nicochristie]

This is what going extremely deep on a vertical looks like. @tryshortcutai is the only Excel agent that can do all of the following

- connect to live/open excel models
- iterative recalc
- multiple (30+) models in parallel
- goal seek / what if / sensetables
- edit/creat VBA

[Richard Pham @phamrich_]

Introducing ShortcutXL - your favorite spreadsheet agent is now available as a desktop generalist.

Unlock Excel capabilities that no other spreadsheet agents can touch (VBA macros, What-if analyses, and more).

Have a swarm of Shortcut agents work on dozens of models concurrently / in parallel.

This is just a taste. try ShortcutXL now: https://t.co/nUHTsXO64p

[nico @nicochristie]

Opus 4.7 is live in @tryshortcutai

It's a great model, but definitely requires some getting used to. Reminds me of Sonnet 3.7 when it came out.

According to our spreadsheet evals, it is a meaningful efficiency jump, but is ~ parity with Opus 4.6 depending on task/config.

[nico @nicochristie]

v0.8.1 is live @tryshortcutai

Chat with your data + build/edit/share dashboards with your team

[Robert Yang @GuangyuRobert]

Shortcut Safe, Dashboard, CLI for multi-agents, Skill Studio, and more!

[Fundamental Research Labs @Fundamental]

@nicochristie Join us!

[nico @nicochristie]

Introducing Shortcut v0.8 - the best way to do spreadsheet work.

Releasing 5 big updates

- The Shortcut Safe for APIs/Tokens
- Live, Shareable Dashboards
- ShortcutXL CLI for Windows
- The /skillstudio for automations
- Bunch of new features

Walkthrough and details below!

[nico @nicochristie]

We are opening up a Research Preview for a product we are calling ShortcutXL

We used ShortcutXL to build and audit 100 of the most searched for Excel templates in parallel (we are making them free too).

OfficeJS/Openpyxl are great, but still quite limiting.

Comment for access

[nico @nicochristie]

@tryshortcutai is growing ~50% MoM and we are looking for a world-class technical GTM person to join the team.

Looking for someone relentless, and passionate about profoundly solving spreadsheet work.

DM me (bonus for a referral!)

TC $220-$300K Cash + Equity

[nico @nicochristie]

Shortcut just experienced 46 minutes of downtime.

Our servers were overloaded by a usage spike and we just deployed a fix.

We will continue to monitor and keep you posted, and we apologize for the outage. Thank you for bearing with us as we scale.

@tryshortcutai is back up

[High Yield Harry @HighyieldHarry]

Definitely worth a watch

I think if you're a PE or Private Credit professional you should be leveraging Shortcut for deeper data cuts as opposed to just DCFs

[nico @nicochristie]

We had early access to GPT 5.4 to benchmark on @tryshortcutai and it is extremely good at Excel

Here is a quick walkthrough of two real-world tasks in our internal eval of 50,000+ cells each

Watch, because the industry is way beyond the same flashy and meaningless DCF demo

[nico @nicochristie]

Opus 4.6 Fast is now live in @tryshortcutai for pro/teams users.

This model is a workhorse -- 2.5x faster and the same frontier intelligence.

We recommend reserving for time sensitive work as it is 6x more expensive ... but man is it a treat to use

[nico @nicochristie]

Our mission at Shortcut is to bring AGI to 1B Spreadsheet workers.

AGI is advancing faster than it is proliferating, and we worry about the world being left behind.

Our first step to address this is a version of Shortcut that is unlimited and free.

Live now.

[nico @nicochristie]

Shortcut was just ranked the top Excel AI Agent by Wall Street Prep (over Claude, Copilot, etc.)

Not surprised ofc.

Shortcut was tested in direct comparison against top analysts, but Shortcut is really meant to be used as a tool.

That's where we really outshine others.