Hey Product Hunt 👋
I’m Rohan, the founder of Pane.
Spreadsheets have quietly stood the test of time. For decades, they’ve remained the most flexible, universal tool for thinking with data used by analysts, operators, founders, and engineers alike. Despite waves of new software, spreadsheets never went away… because nothing else matched their adaptability.
But working with them is still painfully manual. Cleaning data, extracting tables, writing formulas, debugging edge cases are all slow and brittle.
Most “AI for spreadsheets” tools generate answers. Pane is different: it generates actions.
Pane is an agentic-native spreadsheet where AI works directly in the grid: editing cells, writing real formulas, and building charts step by step, the same way a human expert would. Nothing is hidden or black-boxed; every change is visible and editable.
You can upload a CSV, XLSX, or even a PDF, and simply describe what you want:
- extract tables from PDFs
- clean messy data
- run analysis
- create formulas
- build charts
Pane does everything using standard spreadsheet operations, so you always understand how the result was produced.
I built Pane for people who rely on spreadsheets and want them to finally evolve, without losing what made them timeless.
Would love your feedback:
What spreadsheet task do you wish you could just describe instead of doing manually?
What would make you trust AI inside a spreadsheet?
I’ll be here all day answering questions. Thanks for checking it out 🙏
Gemini shows promise inside Sheets, but, as Rohan says, it's mostly guidance, rather than actions. If Pane can solve this, that will be great. That said, if it means switching to a fully new platform is going to be almost impossible for me. If Pane somehow worked INSIDE Sheets, that would be a different story. I need to do more reading.
In any case, thanks for trying to solve a major problem for so many of us, @rohan_bajpai1
Great product! As someone who's really interested in large language models, I'm curious about the AI technology behind Pane. Which LLM are you using - is it Claude Opus 4.5, GPT-4, Gemini 2.0 Pro, or another model? I'd love to know more about the AI architecture powering the "human-level precision" in formula generation. 🔥
This is a strong direction for spreadsheets. Letting AI operate directly on cells and formulas, rather than just suggesting outputs, feels like a real shift toward practical agentic workflows. The emphasis on precision is especially important in spreadsheets where small errors have big consequences. How are you validating correctness and trust at scale when the AI edits complex, interconnected formulas?
Wow, Pane looks amazing! Im blown away by the idea of AI directly editing formulas. How does it handle conflicting instructions across multiple cells? Super cool stuff!
The agentic approach is interesting—having AI generate real formulas instead of just answers. How does it handle complex nested logic or when it needs to reference data across multiple sheets?
Really cool product! I have a few questions:
Is the data in the spreadsheet sent/stored in any databases?
Does Pane have a reversion feature? Like if I executed a series of updates using Pane, and how I want to revert them, can it do that?
As an accountant who lives on spreadsheets, this feels like a huge upgrade. Cleaner views plus less manual work is always a win. Rohan, have you seen accountants use Pane yet? Curious what common use cases look like in real life.
Spreadsheets will always have a special place in my heart... but sometimes I wish I could just hand them off to someone else (like Pane) :)
Hmm one place to bring your tools and context together so you’re not constantly bouncing between tabs and apps. It feels like the kind of “small” workflow change that adds up fast once you’re using it daily.
As a growth marketer, this is 🔥.
Having AI actually operate inside the spreadsheet is huge for funnel analysis, cohort cleanup, and quick experiments. This feels way more practical than most AI for spreadsheets tools.
Love the product, really solid launch 👏 Quick note: as products like this scale, documenting AI use and setting clear internal rules becomes important fast (investors, platforms, users start asking). I work on exactly that (AI passports, acceptable-use rules, risk checks). What’s the best way to contact you privately (email or WhatsApp)? Had a quick question and didn’t want to clutter the comments.
