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Crunched

Crunched is an AI analyst that works inside Excel and PowerPoint, built for the people who live in spreadsheets at investment banks, private equity firms, investment firms and advisory practices. It builds valuation models, business cases and leveraged buyout models from scratch, fills in a firm's existing templates, and links data pulled from information memorandums, annual reports, PDFs, images and web sources into those models before turning the results into slides. Its most distinctive job is review. It checks a workbook of any size for broken links, logic errors and finance specific mistakes, such as a missing add back in a cash flow or a mislinked revenue assumption, so an initial review that used to wait for a vice president happens in minutes. Every number stays live linked from source to model to slide, and any change the agent makes can be undone and reapplied.

The founders, Philip Borge and Michael Sakowski, spent more than 10,000 hours in Excel in the private equity practice at McKinsey before starting the company in 2025 with Lars Musaeus and Markus Skagemo. Crunched went through Y Combinator and raised a seed round of about $6 million, with First Round, 20VC and Shorooq Partners among its backers. It is headquartered in San Francisco and runs its engineering from Oslo. Rather than selling one generic agent, it tailors workflows to each firm's own methodology, working alongside customer teams. Its own materials name professionals at firms including Pareto, Nordover Capital, BCG, PwC, BDO and CBRE among its users, and its most recent positioning leads with advisory and audit firms alongside finance.

Last VerifiedOctober 7, 2026
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Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Categories
capital-markets-ai
Assessment

Capability Axes

Capability grades

15 of 15 axes rated · 7 graded A or B

AI Capability
AI Centrality
AA on AI CentralityThe artificial intelligence is the product. Remove the models and there is nothing left to sell.
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The agent is the whole product. Building, linking, error checking and slide making all run through models working inside the customer's own files, and no data asset or workflow system sits underneath that would survive their removal. The proprietary layer is a context search that finds the right cells and tabs in a workbook with dozens of sheets, plus a dedicated system for catching finance specific errors, and both exist to direct the inference.

Autonomy and Oversight Model
BB on Autonomy and Oversight ModelA written commitment that the models work alongside human judgment, with real review surfaces, short of the full control structure: commonly the threshold at which the system stops or what happens after it is wrong.
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Oversight is designed into how changes land. The agent flags the mistakes it finds directly in the sheet for a person to review, every number stays live linked from source to model to slide, and any change it makes can be undone and reapplied later. Customers use the error check as a review layer between analysts and senior bankers rather than as a replacement for that review. No approval step before edits, confidence threshold or list of actions the agent will not take is published.

Model Risk Management and Transparency
BB on Model Risk Management and TransparencyReal transparency mechanisms are published, such as per alert explainability, confidence scoring or split testing, without the validation package or supervisory mapping behind them.
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Traceability is a design principle rather than an add on. Every number is live linked from its source through the model to the slide, assumptions come with written rationales and links to their sources, and a dedicated checking system targets finance specific errors such as net working capital logic, missing add backs and mislinked revenue assumptions. Those are behaviors a buyer can test on its own models. No accuracy rate, evaluation method or policy for monitoring quality as models change is published.

Operational and Outcome Evidence
BB on Operational and Outcome EvidenceVendor aggregate claims with real figures, or audited scale disclosures from a publicly listed company.
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Results are reported in some detail but not tied to named customers. A case study published by its model provider reports time savings above 50 percent on modeling work, financial spreads falling from more than eight hours to one, company write ups from eight hours to twenty minutes, and a real estate investor's deal task dropping from ten hours to one, with the firms unnamed. The company's hiring materials name professionals at firms including Pareto, PwC, BCG and CBRE as users, with no outcomes attached. The names and the numbers never meet.

AI Safety and Data Stewardship
CC on AI Safety and Data StewardshipGeneral assurances that do not answer the question this axis asks, which is whether one customer’s data trains models serving its competitors. Unbounded cross client learning stated with no boundary grades here too.
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Whether customer files, models or prompts are used to train or improve any model is not stated, and no retention or isolation terms are published.

Regulatory and Compliance
GLBA and Data Privacy Posture
CC on GLBA and Data Privacy PostureA standard privacy policy that covers the website rather than the service, or silence on a product that touches limited consumer data.
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No privacy terms, retention schedule, subprocessor list or data processing commitments specific to the product are published. Confidential deal documents and client models pass through it and on to a named external model provider, so the gap is a real one for a bank or fund.

Security Certifications and Trust Center
CC on Security Certifications and Trust CenterA single footer line, or certifications asserted without being enumerated, which is weaker than naming them because it invites an assumption a buyer cannot check.
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No certification, audit report or trust portal is named. The founders describe building with the security needed for clients to trust them with highly confidential data, which is a commitment rather than a credential.

Regulatory Status and Licensure
CC on Regulatory Status and LicensureThe regulatory position is unstated. Most vendors in this index are technology suppliers and being unlicensed is the correct posture, so this grade records silence about the posture, not a missing license.
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No license or supervised status is held, and none would be expected for a modeling and review tool. Its finance customers are regulated, and models it builds or checks feed deal decisions and client materials inside their obligations. Nothing published addresses that boundary.

AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
CC on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureResponsible artificial intelligence committed to in policy language with no evaluation behind it, on a product whose bias surface is modest.
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No governance framework, testing regime or bias evaluation is published. The judgment calls that matter here are which assumptions the agent proposes and how it rates them, since one marketed workflow has it label a business plan's assumptions as optimistic, realistic or pessimistic. How those labels are reached and checked is not described.

AI Liability and Recourse
CC on AI Liability and RecourseMechanisms that enable challenge, such as audit trails and source traceability, with nothing standing behind the output and no route for the person affected.
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No liability position, accuracy warranty or remediation route is published. The product is positioned as the first reviewer of models headed to senior bankers and clients, so a missed error is the failure that matters, and nothing published says who bears it.

Integration and Deployment
Model Supply Chain Disclosure
AA on Model Supply Chain DisclosureEvery party between the customer’s data and the output is enumerated by name, canonically through a public subprocessor list naming the model providers.
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The model supplier is named down to the version, with a reason for each. A case study published by Anthropic, with the founders quoted, states that the product runs on Claude Opus 4.5 and Sonnet 4.5. Sonnet powers the context search that gathers the right information from large workbooks, using parallel tool calls and a long context window, while Opus makes the deeper and more costly deal analysis economical. The company says it evaluated several models before choosing, and describes keeping customers current as providers change underneath. No failover or customer choice of provider is described.

Core Systems and Integration Depth
BB on Core Systems and Integration DepthNamed systems or a documented public API, with the depth or the production evidence left open.
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The agent works inside Excel and PowerPoint through add ins listed on the Microsoft marketplace, so models and decks stay in the formats teams already review. It pulls data from PDFs, images, web sources, third party financial data providers and a customer's own internal databases, and links it into existing templates rather than replacing them. Workflows are tailored to each firm's methodology by a team working alongside the customer. It is not a system of record for any function, and the environment it works in belongs to Microsoft.

Deployment Model and Data Residency
CC on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyCloud only with nothing stated, which is the category norm.
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Nothing published says where customer workbooks, documents and decks are processed or stored, or whether any regional or private deployment is available. That matters because the inputs include information memorandums and client models from live transactions.

Commercial
Commercial Transparency
CC on Commercial TransparencyNo price is published and engagement runs through a demo form, which is the norm in this index.
Vendor Published

No price is published. The Microsoft marketplace listings state that a paid license is required for full access, and the company sells through demos and firm specific tailoring, which points to quoted enterprise pricing. Nothing indicates whether charging is per seat, per firm or per workflow.

Institution and Segment Coverage
BB on Institution and Segment CoverageNamed segments with dedicated material behind part of the coverage.
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Buyers named in the company's launch, accelerator and model provider materials are investment banks, private equity firms and investment firms, alongside management consulting, audit and corporate finance teams. Its hiring materials name professionals at firms including Pareto, Nordover Capital, BCG, PwC, BDO and CBRE as users, and it reports customers in six European countries and the United States. The most recent positioning leads with advisory and audit firms, so financial institutions are one of two core audiences rather than the only one. No customer count is published.

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