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February 17, 2026

I built in 10 minutes what takes a Goldman analyst a day + the 4 prompts to do it yourself

I built a full operating model last week. Revenue projections, cost structure, unit economics, scenario analysis — the works. It took ten minutes. Then I told Claude in PowerPoint to build the board deck from that model — five slides, executive summary, financials, key metrics, risks, asks — using my company’s actual slide template. Twenty minutes later I had a presentation with charts referencing the live Excel data, formatted in my brand’s fonts and colors, that looked like my team spent two days on it. A Goldman Sachs analyst looked at the model and told me it was solid. The kind of output that would have taken him a full day. The deck would have taken another.

I built in 10 minutes what takes a Goldman analyst a day + the 4 prompts to do it yourself

TL;DR

  • An operating model and board presentation were created in a total of 30 minutes using AI within Excel and PowerPoint.
  • The integration of AI, specifically Anthropic's Opus 4.6, has enhanced Excel and PowerPoint, making them more capable without requiring user updates.
  • Institutional data feeds from providers like Moody's and LSEG are being integrated, extending the capabilities beyond simple chatbots.
  • The intelligence between applications like Excel and PowerPoint is forming a context layer, potentially eliminating entire categories of work.
  • Microsoft, as the owner of Office, is becoming a conduit for third-party intelligence within its products.
  • The ease with which AI can generate output also means it can easily produce low-quality work; judgment is the only filter.

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