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Excel meets AI: Technical insights, tutorials, and best practices for building intelligent spreadsheet applications

AI Integration

Why AI Hallucinates Excel Calculations (And How to Stop It)

AI models are prone to hallucinating numbers and formulas. Learn how SpreadAPI ensures your AI assistants always return accurate Excel calculations - no guessing, no approximations.

SpreadAPI Team
Aug 5, 2025
7 min read
Tutorial

Building AI Agents That Actually Use Your Excel Models

Your Excel models contain years of business logic. Here's how to build AI agents that can actually use them, with real code you can deploy today.

SpreadAPI Team
Aug 2, 2025
12 min read
AI Integration

ChatGPT + Excel: The Secure Integration Developers Actually Want

Let ChatGPT use your Excel calculations without seeing your spreadsheet. Here's how to build secure GPT Actions that access only what you allow.

SpreadAPI Team
Jul 29, 2025
7 min read
Performance

Excel API vs File Uploads: The Performance Numbers That Matter

We benchmarked Excel file uploads vs API calls across 10,000 requests. The results will change how you think about spreadsheet integration.

SpreadAPI Team
Jul 27, 2025
8 min read
AI Integration

Claude Desktop + Excel: The Complete Integration Guide for 2025

Transform Claude Desktop into your intelligent Excel assistant. Learn how to set up secure MCP integration that lets Claude work with your spreadsheets without ever seeing your formulas or sensitive data.

SpreadAPI Team
Jul 27, 2025
9 min read
Use Cases

Excel APIs for Real Estate: Mortgage Calculators That Scale

Real estate calculations are complex. From mortgage amortization to property taxes, here's how to build scalable calculator APIs using Excel's financial functions.

SpreadAPI Team
Jul 22, 2025
8 min read
Performance

Excel API Response Times: From 5 Seconds to 50 Milliseconds

Your Excel API takes 5 seconds to respond? Here's how we got ours down to 50 milliseconds with real optimization techniques that actually work.

SpreadAPI Team
Jul 20, 2025
9 min read
Technical Guide

Excel Formulas vs JavaScript: Why Not Both?

The eternal developer debate: Excel formulas or JavaScript functions? Here's a radical idea - use each for what they're best at.

SpreadAPI Team
Jul 18, 2025
8 min read
AI Integration

Goal Seek & Solver APIs: Let AI Optimize Your Excel Models

Excel's Goal Seek and Solver are powerful but manual. Learn how to expose them as APIs, enabling AI agents to find optimal solutions in your spreadsheets automatically.

SpreadAPI Team
Jul 15, 2025
8 min read
AI Integration

MCP Protocol for Excel: What Every Developer Needs to Know

Discover how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables secure AI-Excel integration. Build intelligent assistants that work with spreadsheets without exposing sensitive data.

SpreadAPI Team
Jul 11, 2025
6 min read
Comparison

SpreadAPI vs Google Sheets API: When to Use Each

Google Sheets API and SpreadAPI solve different problems. Here's an honest comparison to help you choose the right tool for your use case.

SpreadAPI Team
Jul 4, 2025
8 min read
Technical Guide

The Spreadsheet API Revolution: Why Developers Are Ditching File Uploads

File uploads are dead. Modern developers are using spreadsheet APIs to tap directly into Excel's calculation engine. Here's why you should make the switch.

SpreadAPI Team
Jul 1, 2025
8 min read
Technical Guide

Stop Reimplementing Excel Business Logic in JavaScript

That complex Excel spreadsheet with 10 years of business logic? Stop trying to recreate it in JavaScript. Here's why that never works and what to do instead.

SpreadAPI Team
Jun 28, 2025
8 min read