Excel, without opening Excel.
Pull the number out of the workbook without opening it, and put one back.
- Free to start
- No card
- Every write waits for you
- Your own account, not a shared login
Ask in your own words.
Nothing to configure and no builder to open. Copy one of these into a thread, swap in your own Excel details, and Ray takes it from there.
@Ray what is the total in the Q3 tab of the forecast?
@Ray add a row to the expenses table for the conference ticket.
@Ray which tabs are in the budget workbook?
@Ray update the headcount cell on the plan tab to twelve.
What Ray can and cannot do in Excel
Reading is free, because reading changes nothing. Everything that writes waits for you. The rest is not on Ray’s list.
16 reads wired, 2 actions that wait for a human.
Runs on its own
What Ray reads in Excel
- Workbooks, worksheets, ranges, tables, and named items
- Charts and the comments on a sheet
Reading changes nothing, so Ray never stops to ask whether it may look something up.
Asks first, every time
What waits for your approval
- Write values into a range, with the cells and the values on the card
- Add a row to a table
Ray posts a card showing exactly what it is about to do. Nothing happens until someone clicks approve, and no setting turns that off.
Not on the list
Things Ray is never handed
These are left out during curation, so they are not something Ray could do and decides against. They are not in front of it at all.
- Change workbook permissions
Exactly what Ray will ask you to approve.
Not a category of permission. These are the Excel actions Ray can take, each one stopping in the thread with the real content before it happens.
- Update range
- Add table row
Update range
Showing the exact change before it happens, down to the amount.
How Ray works with Excel
No workflow to build, and nothing to maintain when the work changes.
- 01
Connect Excel
One click, right where you asked. Ray posts a connect card, you authorise Excel with your own account, and the work you asked for picks up where it left off.
- 02
Ask in plain words
In the conversation you were already having. Nothing to build, no trigger to map, no tab to open.
- 03
Approve, and it lands
Reading runs on its own. Anything that creates, sends or spends stops first and shows you the exact content.
Priya
@Ray the checkout bug is back. Take a look in Excel, and tell Dana it is being looked at.
Update range
- Waiting on
- your approval
Ray uses Excel together with the rest of your tools.
One ask can read Excel, cross-reference what is in these, and land the finished result back in the thread. Not four connectors taking turns, one teammate with one memory.
What does connecting Excel to Ray actually do?
Ray is an AI teammate that works in your team chat, on Slack today. Connect Excel and it can do the Excel part of a request without anyone leaving the conversation: read what it needs, draft the change, and post it for approval before anything is written.
It is not a workflow builder. There is no trigger to configure and no automation to repair when your process shifts. You describe the outcome in the thread and Ray picks the actions, including actions in your other connected tools when the request spans more than one.
Every person on the team connects their own Excel account, so Ray can only reach what that person can already reach, and the history in Excel shows who actually asked.
Security and permissions
- You authorise Excel on its own login screen. Your password never passes through Ray.
- Writes are gated in the execution path, not by a prompt. There is no setting that grants blanket approval.
- Each workspace is isolated at the database level, and that isolation is tested by trying to break it.
- Disconnect Excel in a message, or uninstall Ray and every connection it held is revoked.
Excel and Ray, answered
The questions teams ask before they connect Excel. Every answer is how this integration is built rather than a promise about it.
Works with these too
Ray uses them together in a single run when a request spans more than one.
Put Ray to work in Excel.
Free to start, no credit card, and it asks before it acts.