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 🙏
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@rohan_bajpai1 This looks like it could save hours on repetitive spreadsheet tasks. I’d love to know how Pane handles data privacy and whether the AI runs locally or in the cloud.
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@rohan_bajpai1 The PDF table extraction feature caught my eye! It's usually a massive pain to get clean data out of PDFs into a spreadsheet format. Having an AI agent handle that directly in the grid sounds like a dream for data analysts. Congrats on being #3 today!
@anubhaw_mathur Thanks Anubhaw! Yes, spreadsheet data is stored in a database, sheets will persist across sessions and are auto-saved.
You can revert any set of operations made by the Pane agent, on top of the traditional CMD+Z shortcut!
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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!
@jaydev13 Thanks Jay! Since the agent writes standard formulas that are calculated natively by the app (just like traditional Excel), any logical conflicts or circular dependencies will just trigger standard error flags in the cell. Trying to keep the behavior predictable and familiar!
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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?
@urvashi_misal Thanks Urvashi! Totally agree about your point on trust.
I think the biggest pieces that contribute high user trust are being able to see the formulas the agent wrote yourself, as well as the ability to restore back to a checkpoint where the agent had still not finished running.
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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. 🔥
@new_user___01920256530b9f092c9e057 Thank you! The main heavy-lifting is done by Gemini 3 Pro, with subagents for functionalities like search or pulling from integrations.
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Interesting! Can the service create formulas based on goals? That is, understand what the data is, what the user needs to do, select the necessary formulas, and edit the table? I always have trouble with this—I’m not very good at math or Excel. It would be great if someone could do this for me :)
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@rohan_bajpai1 This looks like it could save hours on repetitive spreadsheet tasks. I’d love to know how Pane handles data privacy and whether the AI runs locally or in the cloud.
@rohan_bajpai1 The PDF table extraction feature caught my eye! It's usually a massive pain to get clean data out of PDFs into a spreadsheet format. Having an AI agent handle that directly in the grid sounds like a dream for data analysts. Congrats on being #3 today!
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@layli Glad you noticed that feature and thank you! What kinds of PDFs do you usually work with?
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?
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@anubhaw_mathur Thanks Anubhaw! Yes, spreadsheet data is stored in a database, sheets will persist across sessions and are auto-saved.
You can revert any set of operations made by the Pane agent, on top of the traditional CMD+Z shortcut!
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!
Pane
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?
Pane
@urvashi_misal Thanks Urvashi! Totally agree about your point on trust.
I think the biggest pieces that contribute high user trust are being able to see the formulas the agent wrote yourself, as well as the ability to restore back to a checkpoint where the agent had still not finished running.
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. 🔥
Pane
@new_user___01920256530b9f092c9e057 Thank you! The main heavy-lifting is done by Gemini 3 Pro, with subagents for functionalities like search or pulling from integrations.
Interesting! Can the service create formulas based on goals? That is, understand what the data is, what the user needs to do, select the necessary formulas, and edit the table? I always have trouble with this—I’m not very good at math or Excel. It would be great if someone could do this for me :)
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@mykyta_semenov_ Yes! It can do everything a human can do on a spreadsheet.
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@new_user___01920256530b9f092c9e057 Using a mixture of models, but Gemini 3 Pro is the heavy lifter!