AI-powered reporting for consulting firms

Your steering committee pack, generated from your Excel files.

Stop losing hours every week reconciling versions and copying cells into slides. Drop in the spreadsheets your firm already runs on — Operations Cell consolidates them into a live dashboard and a ready-to-present report. Nothing to migrate. Nothing to change.

Your team keeps working in Excel. You stop rebuilding reports by hand.

staffing_2026_v3_FINAL_(2).xlsx
ProjectConsultantDaysMargin
2Acme migrationS. Laurent3418%
3Retail rolloutM. Diallo27#REF!
4Cloud auditS. Laurent128%9%
5Data platform???#DIV/0!
Staffing Staffing (old) Budget_v2 DO NOT EDIT Sheet7
AI
Steering committee pack — Week 27
Active projects
14
Portfolio margin
23.4%
Projects at risk
2
Reporting time
−90%
Consultant allocation
S. Laurent
128%
M. Diallo
84%
J. Costa
62%

60-second demo

Three messy Excel files in. One clean pack out.

This is a real consolidation: staffing, budget and tracker files from a sample firm — reconciled, error-checked, and turned into a client-ready report.

O Operations Cell

Every consulting firm's reality

Staffing, budget, tracker — three files that don't agree

staffing_2026_v3_FINAL(2).xlsx
ConsultantProject%
Sarah LaurentCloud Mig.60%
Sarah LaurentData Plat.70%
Marcus DialloRetail80%
TOTAL#REF!
StaffingoldDO NOT USE
budget_Q1_v2.xlsx
ProjectBudgetFcast
Cloud Mig.$220k$210k
Data Plat.$340k$355k
Security Rev.$75k$92k
Retail$180k$172k
BudgetsSheet1
project_tracker_copy.xlsx
ProjectLeadStatus
Cloud Mig.S. LaurentOn Track
Data Plat.T. ReynoldsAt Risk
Process auditP. NairOn Track
Security Rev.S. LaurentAt Risk
Tracker
4 data issues · 1 broken formula · same person, 2 spellings
Reading 3 Excel files
Reconciling names & projects
Checking formulas & margins
Generating your pack…
Consolidated pack
Client: Meridian Consulting Group · Week of Mar 18
Active projects
6
across 4 clients
Portfolio margin
−1.0%
weighted by budget
Projects at risk
3
margin or deadline
Data issues found
4
across source files

Project portfolio

Cloud MigrationOn Track4.5%
Data PlatformAt Risk−4.4%
Security ReviewAt Risk−22.7%
ERP AssessmentDelayed1.7%

Consultant allocation

S. Laurent
130%
M. Diallo
110%
P. Nair
95%
T. Reynolds
90%
⚠ Caught in your files
"Sarah Laurent" and "S. Laurent" merged into one — revealing she's booked at 130%. Plus a #REF! breaking your revenue total.
reconciled across 2 files

Weekly status report auto-generated

  • Security Review — now −22.7% margin ($92k vs $75k budget). Decision needed.
  • Sarah Laurent — overbooked at 130%. Rebalance this week.
  • ERP Assessment — delayed, blocked on client data since Feb. Escalate.

Your steering committee pack, generated from your Excel files.

Nothing to migrate. Nothing to change.

Send us your files — free 48h pack
operationscell.com

Sample data — no real client files. Your own demo runs on the spreadsheets you send us.

Built for Consulting firms IT consultancies Engineering consultancies PMO teams Professional services, 10–500 people

The problem

Your firm doesn't run on Excel. It runs on 40 versions of Excel.

Every consulting firm knows this stack: the staffing file, the budget file, the copy someone made "just in case" — and the hours spent every week reconciling them.

budget_2026_v3_FINAL_v2.xlsx

Version chaos

Nobody's sure which file is current. Decisions get made on numbers that were superseded two weeks ago.

weekly_report_DRAFT.pptx

Manual reporting, every single week

Hours copying cells into slides for steering committees — and it's outdated the moment it's sent.

staffing_plan_(copy).xlsx

Resource planning by asking around

Who's free next month? Who's at 120%? The answer lives in someone's head and three files that disagree.

=VLOOKUP(#REF!)

Human errors, found too late

A broken formula or a stale copy-paste — discovered in front of the client, or worse, never.

margins_Q2_recalc.xlsx

Margin problems surface at close

Profitability lives in a file nobody opens mid-project. By the time it's visible, the money is gone.

dashboard (doesn't exist)

No central view — anywhere

The partner question "so where do we stand?" takes a day to answer. It should take a glance.

Add it up: for a 30-person firm, that's easily one full consultant-day per week spent producing information that already exists — plus the margin quietly lost to what nobody saw coming.

Before / After

Same files. Reporting week, transformed.

You don't change how your team works. They keep their Excel files — you just stop paying the weekly reporting tax.

Before — reporting by hand
Hours copying cells into slides before every steering committee
Numbers reconciled across dozens of conflicting versions
Outdated the moment the deck is sent
Margin and allocation problems discovered too late
Errors hiding in formulas nobody audits
After — Operations Cell
Drop your files, get the pack — dashboard + report
One consolidated view, inconsistencies flagged
Regenerate in one click whenever files change
Overallocation and low margins surfaced every week
Formula errors caught before they reach the boardroom

What it does

One job, done completely: your reporting.

Upload your Excel files — the AI reads them, consolidates the numbers, and produces the outputs your firm actually needs every week. Nothing more, nothing you have to maintain.

AI Excel analysis

Understands your columns, formulas, tabs and naming conventions — however messy. Flags what it can't resolve instead of guessing.

Consolidated dashboard

Projects, margins and allocation from all your files in one view — regenerated whenever you drop updated files.

Steering committee reports

A ready-to-present pack: status, budget burn, risks and decisions needed — generated in one click.

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Profitability & allocation snapshot

Which projects are bleeding margin, which consultants are overallocated — surfaced weekly, not at project close.

Resource planning, alerts and full platform features are on the roadmap — we're deliberately shipping the highest-pain piece first.

How it works

Drop the files. Get the pack.

No integration project, no training, no data entry. The whole workflow fits in three steps.

Step 1 — Drop

Upload your Excel files

Staffing, budgets, project trackers — exactly as they are today, mess included.

Step 2 — Consolidate

AI reads and reconciles

Columns, formulas and versions are analyzed and merged into one consistent dataset — inconsistencies flagged, never guessed.

Step 3 — Present

Get your pack

A consolidated dashboard and a steering-committee-ready report. New files? Regenerate in one click.

The payoff

What this changes, in numbers.

10h+
saved per week on manual coordination
−90%
time spent preparing reports
1
source of truth instead of dozens of files
Days
to go live — not months of ERP rollout

Targets based on replacing manual Excel consolidation and reporting workflows.

Pricing

Priced against the hours you're burning, not against an ERP.

Every plan starts with a demo on your actual spreadsheets — so you see your data consolidated before you commit.

Pilot

One team, one reporting cycle

$190 /month
  • Up to 5 Excel sources
  • Consolidated dashboard
  • Weekly steering committee pack
  • One-click regeneration
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Enterprise

For 100+ person organizations

Custom
  • Multiple entities & teams
  • SSO & advanced security
  • Custom report templates
  • Dedicated onboarding
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FAQ

Questions firms actually ask.

Do we have to stop using Excel?

No — that's the point. Your team keeps working exactly as they do today. You drop the files in, Operations Cell consolidates them and generates the outputs. Excel stays; the reporting tax goes.

How is this different from an ERP or a PM tool?

ERPs and PM tools require you to migrate your processes into their structure — months of implementation and change management. Operations Cell asks nothing of your team: no new tool to adopt, no data entry. If nobody has to change how they work, nothing can fail to be adopted.

Our spreadsheets are messy. Will it still work?

Messy is the normal case, not the exception. The AI analysis is built to handle inconsistent naming, merged cells, formula errors and duplicate versions — and flags what it can't resolve so nothing is silently wrong in your report.

Is this just a report generator?

Today, deliberately, yes — reporting is the highest-pain, highest-frequency problem, so it's what we ship first and do completely. Resource planning and a full live platform are on the roadmap, funded by making this first piece excellent.

How long does it take to get started?

Days, not months. Your first consolidated pack is generated from your files during onboarding — the demo itself runs on your actual data.

Is our data secure?

Your data lives in a secure cloud environment with per-user access control, and is never used to train models. Enterprise plans add SSO and advanced security options.

Limited early access

Get on the list.

We're onboarding a small number of firms at a time, so each early pack gets built by hand and gets our full attention. Request access and we'll reach out when a spot opens — you'll be first to send your files and get your free consolidated pack.

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