Case Studies

Examples of custom Excel automation and AI solutions delivered for clients around the world.

Each project below outlines the problem, the solution we built and the results achieved.

Daycare Catering Production Planner

Production Planner in Excel

Type: Excel Automation System

Industry: Daycare Catering

Built a custom Excel and VBA production planning system used for over 7 years.

Problem

Meal planning, dietary substitutions and production reporting were manual and difficult to manage across multiple locations.

Solution

Built an Excel-based system to automate meal planning, dietary matching and kitchen production reporting.

Result

Streamlined operations across multiple nurseries and supported evolving requirements over a 7+ year period.

Tech: Excel, VBA

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AI Research Pipeline Dashboard

Financial Document Research System

Type: AI Document Intelligence System

Industry: Higher Education / Academic Research

Built a custom AI research system for large-scale financial document analysis.

Problem

Analysing thousands of corporate annual reports required extensive manual review.

Solution

Combines search, AI selection, local PDF parsing, AI data extraction, keyword and semantic search.

Result

Replaced months of manual work with a fully searchable and automated pipeline.

Tech: Python, Claude API, pgvector, PostgreSQL

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Weekly Management Dashboard

Excel Dynamic Operations Dashboard

Type: Excel Reporting & Dashboard System

Industry: Financial Services

Built a centralized Excel dashboard for operational and profitability reporting.

Problem

Multiple sources of data led to inconsistent reporting and disagreements over key metrics.

Solution

Developed a single-source Excel dashboard with dynamic reporting and drill-down capability.

Result

Established a single agreed-upon set of metrics, eliminated reporting inconsistencies and improved decision-making.

Tech: Excel, VBA, Dynamic Charts

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Commission Statement Tool

Commission Calculator & Statement Generator

Type: Excel VBA System (Long-Term Engagement)

Industry: Warehouse Equipment Manufacturing

Built a custom Excel and VBA commission system in continuous use for over 12 years.

Problem

Commission calculations and statement generation were complex, varied across sales reps and required significant manual effort.

Solution

Developed an Excel and VBA system supporting 30+ sales reps, 12 commission structures, multiple statement formats and automated email distribution.

Result

Reliable, automated commission processing and reporting, continuously extended and maintained over more than a decade.

Tech: Excel, VBA, Outlook automation

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Client Statement Generator

VBA-Generated Client Statements in PDF

Type: Excel VBA Reporting Automation

Industry: Alternative Asset Management

Built an automated Excel system to generate professional client statements from raw data.

Problem

Client reporting required manual preparation of statements using transaction and valuation data.

Solution

Created a VBA-driven system to generate PDF statements including returns, holdings and charts directly from source data.

Result

Delivered consistent, professional-quality reporting without requiring a dedicated reporting platform.

Tech: Excel, VBA

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Other recent work

Projects we've built or completed for which a full case study hasn't been written yet. Happy to discuss any of them in more detail — get in touch.

AI Agents for Accounting & Marketing

Type: AI Agent Framework

Built an internal multi-agent AI system to automate accounting and marketing workflows.

Problem

Accounting, reconciliation and marketing tasks required ongoing manual effort.

Solution

Developed an AI agent system to classify transactions, reconcile accounts, generate invoices, match payments and monitor website analytics.

Result

Automated internal operations and created a reusable framework for client-facing AI systems.

Tech: Python, PostgreSQL, Claude API, FastMCP, Ollama

AI-Powered Document Processing Pipeline

Type: AI Document Processing System

Built a custom AI pipeline for automated document classification, routing and filing.

Problem

Manual document naming, categorization and filing required hours of effort each week.

Solution

Developed an AI system to automatically classify, name and route documents with human-in-the-loop review.

Result

Reduced processing time from hours to minutes while maintaining accuracy.

Tech: Python, OCR, LLM classification, PostgreSQL

Onsite Excel Performance Review

Type: Excel Optimization Engagement

Optimized a client-built Excel tool in a single-day engagement.

Problem

A large Excel-based analysis tool was slow to open and recalculate.

Solution

Reviewed formulas, structure and calculation logic and implemented targeted optimizations.

Result

Improved performance by 500%, eliminated delays and added requested features.

Tech: Excel, VBA, Power Query

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Breadth of Work

A partial list of the kinds of problems we've solved — if something similar sounds familiar, we can probably help with yours:

Commission & fee calculators
Budget & variance reporting
Dynamic operations dashboards
PDF statement generators
Data aggregation pipelines
Access & SQL Server databases
Spreadsheet risk audits
Legacy VBA tool rescue
AI-powered categorization
Document extraction (OCR + LLM)
RAG / semantic search
Multi-agent AI systems