Your business runs on a spreadsheet held together by one person's formulas. We turn it into software that survives them leaving.
Almost every business we've worked with has one: the spreadsheet that quietly runs a piece of the operation, built by someone who's since moved on, with formulas nobody fully remembers the reasoning behind. Converting it isn't a straight rebuild — it's a three-step process that treats the existing sheet as documentation of real business rules, not just a file to replace.
1. Extract the business logic — We read the formulas, macros, and manual steps, and document the actual business rules hiding inside the sheet, before any code gets written.
2. VBA optimization — Clean up, speed up, or stabilize existing VBA before a full rebuild is even needed.
3. Convert to real software — Turn the spreadsheet into a proper application: multi-user, audit-trailed, connected to your other systems — no more "who has the latest version."
The biggest risk in any spreadsheet-to-software conversion isn't the interface — it's silently losing a business rule nobody thought to mention because it's been "just how the sheet works" for years. That's why extraction comes first: every formula and macro gets traced back to the decision it encodes before it's translated into the new system. If a rule looks wrong or redundant, we flag it for a decision rather than quietly dropping it.
For the technical reader: conversion approach depends on formula complexity, macro/VBA usage, and data volume. We assess these during the audit before proposing a migration approach — full rewrite, hybrid (VBA-optimized core with a new interface layer), or incremental replacement of the highest-risk sheets first.