Hi YC 👋

We’re Philip, Michael, Lars and Markus - and we’re building Crunched

TL;DR

Crunched is the first AI Excel agent built by and for Excel power users, tailored for management consulting and finance workflows

We’ve spent 10,000+ hours in Excel ourselves, and are live with consulting, IB and PE firms across Europe and the US, 2x-ing their Excel modeling speed

Ask: We would love for you to introduce us to mgmt. consulting, investment banking or PE firms - contact us at philip@usecrunched.com

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Why we’re doing it

Michael and Philip have worked on countless deals at McKinsey and in other IB/PE roles, and it always starts and ends with an Excel model. It’s either the main deliverable itself, or the entire backbone of the slide deck.

No matter how skilled you are, manual Excel modeling is slow and super error-prone. On one of our last projects, a company’s 2030 revenue projection presented to the CEO was doubled because a colleague (promise it was a colleague), had linked the forecast to year 1 revenue growth for all years. That was a fun follow-up call afterwards.

Associates need specialized AI tools they can collaborate with directly in their workflows, to drive productivity and accuracy. The solution is not to replace Excel, but to augment it and solve one pain point at a time. That’s why we’re building Crunched.

What we’re doing

Crunched is an Excel-native AI analyst that can:

1. Error-check models: Check models for logical, formula and conceptual mistakes
2. Gather data: Run targeted web research and extract figures from PDFs (e.g., annual reports) and link it into templates
3. Build analyses: Build bespoke analyses from scratch, turning 1h tasks into 5-10min automated workflows

Users are already reporting that they’re >2x faster on specific tasks. We are on a mission to make it 10x across all modeling work.

Team

Michael and Philip have 10,000+ hours of Excel experience (often until 4am) from McKinsey. Lars and Markus have years of experience shipping and scaling award winning AI enterprise solutions, and are building Crunched with the cutting-edge security needed for clients to trust us with their highly confidential data.

Ask

We’re expanding in Europe and into the US and are looking for warm intros to mgmt. consulting, IB and PE firms. If you are or know any Excel power users we’d love your help.

Please reach out at philip@usecrunched.com or book a live demo on our website. All help is appreciated - thank you!