Turn a pricing spreadsheet into an app

Everyone has one: a pricing spreadsheet you rebuild each quarter and email around, never quite sure who’s looking at which version. It works, until three people edit it at once and someone quotes off last year’s numbers.

Here’s the whole fix on Croft. Upload the spreadsheet to your AI assistant and ask it to turn it into an app. A minute later there’s a real pricing app — its own web address, a proper database, a tidy interface — running on your croft. You invite your team; they open the link, sign in once, and use it. No file to email around, no “which version is this?”, no developer, no server to set up.

That’s the pattern for a whole category of tools that were always almost a spreadsheet: a quote calculator that knows your margins, a budget-vs-actual tracker, a break-even model, a commission sheet. Hand your assistant the spreadsheet (or a screenshot, or just a description), say “make this an app,” and it builds it onto your private server.

And because it’s a real app now, it can do things a spreadsheet can’t: only the right people can open it, changes are saved for everyone at once, and you can ask for more any time — “add a column for discounts and let Sam approve them” — and your assistant edits the app and redeploys.

The spreadsheet was never the problem. Emailing it around was.

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