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Carousel

AI assistant for Excel that builds spreadsheets and financial models.

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Carousel is an AI assistant for Excel that helps finance and consulting professionals build financial models, explain calculations, and format outputs with minimal instructions. It runs as a local executable on the user's computer, with workbook data stored on-device.

Key features include Carousel Chat for building models from scratch, Quick Fix for editing cell ranges and charts via keyboard shortcut, Model Walkthrough for step-by-step formula explanations with descriptive labels, and File Context for attaching source files to chats with cited references. Format Mode and Chart Mode handle presentation of tables and data. Carousel is model-agnostic, supporting OpenAI and Anthropic models by default, with enterprise options to route requests to private endpoints including AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, or Azure. It is under active SOC 2 Type II audit.

Carousel targets corporate finance, investment banking, management consulting, private equity, and asset management teams. A Deal Team plan includes the ability to request custom integrations with external data providers. Carousel has been acquired by AlphaSense.

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