Headless Photo Editing with Photo GPT YouTube video by Hjalmar Gislason

Image processing using natural language or "look ma, no clicks!":

The future is headless An image processing demonstration

Function calls in AI are a bigger deal than most realize.

At some point, we’ll use AI assistants instead of standalone software. We can already do a lot today.

I built an image processing app for ChatGPT - no UI, just pure function calls to a headless API service.

Video, examples & access 👇

Unlocking Spreadsheet Intelligence with AI Hjalmar Gislason on Spreadsheets, AI, and the Future of Business Modeling.

🎧 Using #AI and LLMs to Unlock the Hidden Power of Enterprise Spreadsheets with @hjalli.com @grid.is
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Your spreadsheets, supercharged: Deploy as APIs & integrate with AI Spreadsheets are programs. You can easily make them part of your software stack for AI and automation.

Spreadsheets are programs. They don’t have to stay trapped in files.

With @grid.is, you can turn a spreadsheet model into a web service—making it scalable, automatable & AI-ready.

Here’s how. From API deployment to ChatGPT integration in 4 minutes!

Is Your AI Missing Out? The Hidden Logic in Your Spreadsheets Subscribe • Previous Issues

📨 Using #AI and LLMs to Unlock the Hidden Power of Enterprise Spreadsheets
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GRID.is | Turn spreadsheets into RESTful APIs in minutes YouTube video by GRID

Turn any spreadsheet into a scalable, reliable API with GRID! This demo shows how to upload a financial model, generate a RESTful API endpoint, and run queries instantly 🎯

Spreadsheets are programs!

See how easy it is to deploy these end-user generated programs as scalable and reliable web services using GRID's API service - ready to be integrated with anything in only 2 minutes.

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Chat with your spreadsheets in Claude for Desktop Turn Anthropic’s Claude into a spreadsheet wizard with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and GRID’s API.

Function calls + headless architectures = the future of AI-first software.

We explored @AnthropicAI's MCP (Model Context Protocol) to connect @GRID_hq's headless spreadsheet engine to Claude Desktop.

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App Stores for ChatGPT and Claude They’re inevitable

Imagine an app store for your conversational AI assistant. A place where you could browse, install, and purchase capabilities to enhance what ChatGPT or Claude can do.

It's inevitable.

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Why your chatbot really needs a spreadsheet I recently wrote about using ChatGPT as an impressive analytic partner for spreadsheet data.

“In short, you'll follow some straightforward instructions and paste GRID's customized details into ChatGPT. The result is a custom GPT that understands how to connect to your spreadsheet in natural language. Look at this; it's a real conversation …” creativedifferences.substack.com/p/why-your-c...

Tæknispá 2025: Gervigreind, geimurinn og sannleikurinn sjálfur Tækni er ekki bara hluti af lífi okkar – hún er samofin manninum sem tegund. Þessi einfalda staðreynd gleymist oft. Allt sem færir okkur mat, hlýju, skjól, ferðamáta, afþreyingu og hefur með öðrum …

Tækni er ekki bara hluti af lífi okkar – hún er samofin manninum sem tegund.

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We’ve been promoting GRID for ChatGPT, bringing spreadsheets directly into ChatGPT.
Behind the scenes lies something bigger: a service that turns spreadsheets into REST APIs for developers to plug into their apps. Want to try it out? Sign up for waitlist here and mention API-access: grid.is/chat-gpt

Building SaaS like it’s been done the last 10–15 years? Rethink.

Software is entering the AI-first era: language-first, task-centric, agentic.

Users expect integration, automation, APIs and AIs—not just UIs.

It's not a tweak; it’s a shift. Evolve or risk obsolescence.

GRID — A spreadsheet engine for ChatGPT Unlock even more value from your GPT by equipping it with the power of a spreadsheet engine.

I see businesses moving their workflows AI-first—using LLMs to automate and boost productivity.

But spreadsheets, a core tool for many, are still outside ChatGPT’s reach.

At GRID, we’re bridging that gap—bringing spreadsheet workflows into ChatGPT.

Join our Alpha: grid.is/chat-gpt

Spreadsheets are the backbone of business, but LLMs like ChatGPT & Claude can’t natively handle them. GRID bridges the gap with a high-performance spreadsheet engine, integrating seamlessly with LLMs to unlock their full potential in the AI-first era.

Spreadsheets are a specialized programming language. It requires a specialized runtime environment - a spreadsheet engine. ChatGPT does not have such an engine and therefore cannot directly access or understand spreadsheet models with their formulas, references, functions and calculation methods.

Bringing Spreadsheets Into the AI-First Era Introducing GRID’s new mission

Introducing GRID's new mission:
Bringing Spreadsheets into the AI-first Era

Today we take a major step, expanding the Alpha testing of our ChatGPT solution and opening registrations for early access.

GRID — Spreadsheets run the world Spreadsheets run the world and we run spreadsheets.

GRID is evolving.

We're bringing spreadsheets into the AI-first era, enabling reliable, verifiable calculations through natural language, agents and automations.

🚀 New website and big updates coming soon. Stay tuned! grid.is

GRID for ChatGPT: Live Data Connection for Reliable Spreadsheet Calculations YouTube video by GRID

These coming weeks you will be hearing a LOT more from me about GRID's new ChatGPT solution, designed to bring reliable spreadsheet calculations seamlessly into ChatGPT.

That goes for any spreadsheet with a formula in it, but also ensuring that you're working with the most recent data at all times.

Introducing the Model Context Protocol The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives, including content repositories, business tools, and development environments. Its aim...

@anthropic.com just announced MCP, enabling Claude to seamlessly connect with 3rd-party systems.

Function calls and integrations such as those built with MCP position LLM environments to become the ultimate no-code tools.

Yet another step toward the AI-first era.

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The AI-first world will be:

Language-oriented:
We instruct computers in our language, instead of their.

Task-centric:
We start with the task at hand, rather than the software to complete it.

Agentic:
Computers will act on our behalf, even when we are not there.

Do you know your AI, BI, CIs?

AI: Artificial Intelligence
BI: Business Intelligence
CI: Competitive Intelligence
DI: Data Intelligence
EI: Emotional Intelligence
FI: Financial Intelligence
GI: General Intelligence
HI: Human Intelligence
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When all roads lead (back) to spreadsheets GRID doubles down on spreadsheet modeling

We made a significant change to our subscription plans and pricing today. It's been quite a journey. Here's what we changed and how we got here:

But *a LOT MORE software will be developed*. Which in turn will increase productivity in other sectors.

This - I think - will be the biggest immediate impact of current generative AI breakthroughs.

While the productivity increase may be slightly less for experienced developers (and other jobs in other industries may certainly be differently affected), there is such an unmet demand for software, that these next few years the demand for developers will remain as high as ever.

Part-weekends and some evenings I may have put in the equivalent of max 5 working days. In those 5 days, ChatGPT has saved me *at least* a full working month, and elevated the quality of what I would otherwise have hacked together.

Having not touched code for 5+ years - and not programmed for a living since the early days of "AJAX" (2004-2006) - I recently got an idea for a pet-project.

So these last three weeks I've re-taught myself web development with the help of ChatGPT.

The true disruptive nature of generative AI is productivity increase, not job displacement. Personal anecdote 👇

Seeing a video like this - made by a user - is such a great reminder to me and the team here at GRID of how mature our product has become, and what empowers spreadsheet modelers to do in a really short amount of time.

As Kyle explains he uses GRID to create both lead generation tools and tools that he monetizes directly by selling access to them.

Hello spreadsheet-as-a-service!