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Can Generative AI do 10% of Human Tasks?

And will it double IT spend to 10% of the World GDP?

2 min readJan 25, 2024

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Can Generative AI do 10% of Human Tasks?

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Hjalmar Gislason
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GRID

When all roads lead (back) to spreadsheets

GRID doubles down on spreadsheet modeling

10 min readNov 1, 2023

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When all roads lead (back) to spreadsheets

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Monetizing expertise through spreadsheet models

Domain experts across a range of domains use spreadsheets to “encode” their unique expertise. Many are looking for ways to monetize it.

4 min readSep 19, 2023

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Monetizing expertise through spreadsheet models

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GRID

Free-form spreadsheets vs. spreadsheets-as-databases

Take a look at the spreadsheets in your life, and you will notice that every sheet falls into one of two categories:

3 min readMay 31, 2023

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Free-form spreadsheets vs. spreadsheets-as-databases

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GRID

How we built a GPT-3 powered spreadsheet formula assistant

It allows our users to write a description of the calculation they’re looking to do and receive a suggested formula in return.

6 min readFeb 16, 2023

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How we built a GPT-3 powered spreadsheet formula assistant

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Generative AI and spreadsheets

Large language models won’t replace financial modelers any time soon, but are here to assist them already

8 min readFeb 8, 2023

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Generative AI and spreadsheets

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GRID

Launching Scratchpad: GRID evolves into an end-to-end data tool

GRID is on a mission to become the numbers tool for a new generation.

3 min readSep 14, 2022

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Launching Scratchpad: GRID evolves into an end-to-end data tool

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Blocks and Surfaces: Battlegrounds for the Future of Work

With the rise of next-generation productivity tools I feel that we are about to witness a two-pronged race:

4 min readSep 9, 2022

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Blocks and Surfaces: Battlegrounds for the Future of Work

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GRID

We built a spreadsheet engine from scratch. Here’s what we learned.

From the very beginning, one of the core ideas behind GRID has been that spreadsheets — and spreadsheet models in particular — can be made…

13 min readJun 28, 2022

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Spreadsheets: Where businesses dream about their future

Businesses analyze their past using Business Intelligence, but spreadsheet models are where they dream about the future.

3 min readJun 2, 2022

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Spreadsheets: Where businesses dream about their future

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Hjalmar Gislason

Hjalmar Gislason

Founder and CEO of GRID (@grid_hq) — the future of numbers. Proud data nerd. Curious about everything. Founder of 5 software companies.

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