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Grids · Q3 fit-out budget
Q3 fit-out budget3 grids
C6=SUM(C2:C5)
ABC
1LineOwnerCost
2SwitchgearRavi12,400
3CablingMia6,180
4CommissioningAlex3,900
5ContingencyTeam2,000
6Total24,480
BudgetLabourMaterials+
Cost by line
SwitchgearCablingCommissioningContingency

Set from a meeting. The chart reads the range, so it moved with it.

Features · Inside a project

A spreadsheet that lives with the project.

A ribbon you already know, formulas, worksheets, charts that read a range, and a source dot on any cell a meeting, a chat, Hoot or Autopilot wrote. Open an Excel file in it and save it back out with the formulas still live.

488
formula functions, counted from the engine
  • Formulas stored as formulas
  • Worksheets that reference each other
  • A source dot on every written cell
What it does

A spreadsheet, not a table pretending to be one.

The engine stores formulas and evaluates only what is on screen, so a Grid behaves like the spreadsheet you already know while staying inside the project it belongs to.

01

488 functions, and the formula is what is stored

The engine keeps the formula, never a pre-computed number, so a change upstream flows through every cell that depends on it. Type a function name, or find it on the ribbon's Formulas tab, and both come from the same catalogue.

02

Worksheets that reference each other

A Grid holds up to 40 worksheets and a formula can read across them, so Labour and Materials can roll into Budget without a copy of either.

Budget!C6=Labour!C9+Materials!C9

Budget

C6 · 24,480

Labour

C9 · 15,300

Materials

C9 · 9,180

Budget reads both. Change Labour and Budget moves.

Up to 40 worksheets in one Grid, and no copy of any of them.

03

Charts drawn off a range

11 chart kinds read a range of cells rather than a copy of the numbers, so the picture and the column agree by construction.

04

Every written cell says who wrote it

A meeting, a chat, Hoot, Autopilot or an import leaves a source dot on the cell, and the dot's own line says which. A number a meeting revised is one click from that meeting.

3Cabling6,180
4Commissioning3,900

Set from a meeting

Sprint review · Tue 15 · was 4,200

Open the meeting →

Set from a meeting · Set from chat · Written by Hoot · Written by Autopilot · Imported

05

Fast without a library

Only the rows and columns in view are rendered and only the visible cells are evaluated, so a worksheet can address 50,000 rows without the page paying for all of them.

Rows in view1,204 to 1,209
1204Bay 12 fixtures840
1205Bay 12 signage120
1206Bay 13 fixtures840
1207Bay 13 signage120
1208Bay 14 fixtures910
1209Bay 14 signage120

Only these 6 are in the page and only these are evaluated. The worksheet can address 50,000 rows.

06

In a project, or in its chat

The same Grid mounts on a project's Grids tab and as a tab inside the project's channel. Open an Excel file as a new Grid, and save any Grid back to Excel with its formulas live rather than flattened to numbers.

On which plan

What is included, and where the line is.

Every new workspace starts on a free trial of the full Business tier, no card needed, and lands on Free when it ends. Prices and limits are on the pricing page.

Business and above

Grids

A spreadsheet that meetings and Autopilot can write into is workspace infrastructure, and the most expensive surface to serve.

Team and above

Hoot inserting a chart's rows into a Grid

One of the chart destinations.

Business and above

Autopilot writing into a Grid

Comes with Autopilot itself.

Questions

The ones people ask first.

Is it a real spreadsheet or a table with formulas?
A spreadsheet. Formulas are stored as formulas, worksheets reference each other, a large worksheet is windowed and evaluated only where it is visible, and a Grid saves to Excel with its formulas kept.
Who can open a Grid?
Whoever can see its home. A Grid lives on one project or one of its conversations, and with the Toolbox it can also live in the workspace or with just you. Moving it needs edit rights in both places and keeps it the same Grid, never a copy.
What is the dot on a cell?
Provenance. A cell a meeting, a chat, Hoot, Autopilot or an import wrote carries a dot, and hovering it says which one and links to the source.

Put the numbers where the work is.

Add the Grids tab to any project and start with a worksheet, a formula and a chart that reads it.

Free to start · No credit card required