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TaglineSpreadsheets with AI + live integrations baked in.Sales-focused meeting AI with CRM integration.AI research assistant for academic literature.Run any open-source AI model with an API call.
CategoryDataMeetingsResearchDev Platform
PricingFree + $19-$89/user/moFree + $10-$19/user/moFree + $12-$42/moPay per second of compute
Best forOps teams, marketers, anyone building dashboards from multiple sources.Sales teams, customer success, anyone running many discovery calls.Grad students, researchers, anyone doing literature reviews.Developers using open-source models (Flux, SDXL, Whisper, etc).
Strengths
  • Pull live data from Stripe, Slack, Google Analytics, etc.
  • AI functions inside cells
  • Modern UX
  • Good CRM integrations (Salesforce, HubSpot)
  • Talk-time + sentiment analytics
  • Call scoring
  • Searches 125M+ papers
  • Extracts + synthesizes findings across papers
  • Systematic review workflow
  • Tens of thousands of models (image, video, audio, LLMs)
  • One-line API for any model
  • Cog framework for custom model deploy
Weaknesses
  • Not a full Excel replacement for heavy users
  • Integrations best on paid tiers
  • Bot-joins (intrusive)
  • Gets expensive at team scale
  • Academic-only
  • Can hallucinate citations — verify everything
  • Cold starts on less-popular models
  • Pricing gets real at scale
Kai's verdictA-tier. The most interesting spreadsheet in years. Great for ops dashboards.A-tier for sales teams. B-tier for solo users.S-tier for academic research. Nothing else comes close for systematic reviews.S-tier for open-source model APIs. The default in this space.
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