Jun 03, 2026

Designing AI Products People Actually Want to Use

Almost every growing company has one: a spreadsheet that started as a quick fix and quietly turned into critical infrastructure.

Years of formulas, manual edits, and tribal knowledge pile up until nobody fully understands how it works anymore, but everyone depends on it.

Migrating off a load-bearing spreadsheet feels risky, so teams keep patching it instead.

The longer that goes on, the more logic gets buried in cell formulas that only one or two people actually understand.

A safe migration starts by mapping every formula and manual step the spreadsheet actually performs, not just the parts that are obvious.

Running the new system in parallel with the old one for a stretch catches mismatches before anyone has to trust the new system blindly.

“We migrated three years of spreadsheet logic into Braid in about a month, and nobody has looked back.”

Before migrating off a spreadsheet, it’s worth confirming:

Every formula and edge case is documented

Who actually owns and maintains the sheet

What data needs to move, and what can be archived

A rollback plan if something doesn't match

Migrating off a spreadsheet isn’t just about avoiding a future breakdown.

It frees up the person who used to maintain it, and it makes the underlying process visible to the rest of the team for the first time.

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