Spreadsheet Automation
Somewhere in your business, a mission-critical process is a 40-tab workbook one person understands, updated by hand, emailed around, and one bad paste from disaster.
What can be automated in spreadsheet automation? With current AI and integration tooling: scheduled data pulls replacing manual exports; validation and anomaly checks on refresh; automated distribution/publishing; migration to a proper system where the workbook is really a database. What should remain under human control: model logic changes and business rules; judgment on flagged anomalies; retirement decisions (keep vs. migrate). Olyra implements this with confidence scoring, audit logging, and human-review gates matched to risk.
What this work looks like today
The workbook owner (single point of failure) and everyone downstream of its numbers.
Excel/Sheets, exports from every system, email attachments with _v7_FINAL names.
Measured before we touch anything: Manual refresh hours · Error incidents · Key-person dependency
What gets automated — and what stays human
Automated (with logging):
- Scheduled data pulls replacing manual exports
- Validation and anomaly checks on refresh
- Automated distribution/publishing
- Migration to a proper system where the workbook is really a database
Stays under human control:
- Model logic changes and business rules
- Judgment on flagged anomalies
- Retirement decisions (keep vs. migrate)
How value and risk are managed
What we baseline and track
Manual refresh hours · Error incidents · Key-person dependency · Data latency
Risks designed for
Change control on formulas/pipelines; access control replacing email attachments; full refresh logs.
Typical implementation path: Highest-risk workbook first — usually the one with a name in its filename. Implementation follows the Olyra 120: pilot on real historical volume, parallel run, then measured cutover.
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