Formula Bot (formerly Excel Formula Bot) vs Arcwise AI

Formula Bot is a chat-based data analytics platform where you upload spreadsheets or connect databases, then ask questions in plain English to get formulas, charts, dashboards, and written insights back. It started as an Excel formula helper and now covers analysis, visualization, and scheduled reporting in one workspace.

The product runs analysis in an isolated sandbox and shows the Python, SQL, or R code behind each answer so you can verify results before exporting. You can also build interactive dashboards from templates, schedule Playbooks to refresh reports automatically, and embed analytics chat on your own site.

It fits analysts, finance teams, marketers, and business owners who live in Excel or Google Sheets but want faster answers without writing every formula or pivot by hand.

Arcwise AI is a spreadsheet analytics copilot and decision platform for teams that live in Google Sheets and warehouse data. It began as a Chrome extension for ChatGPT-powered formulas and data cleanup, and now also sells traceable metric explanations tied to Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, and internal documentation.

The Sheets extension still ships as a free Chrome add-on with keyboard shortcuts, $AI.TRANSFORM and $AI.CLASSIFY functions, and PDF table extraction. That side competes with formula copilots, while the platform side targets analysts who need audited answers instead of generic chatbot guesses.

Arcwise backs explanations with source tracing rather than open-ended model text, which matters when finance or ops teams need to defend a number in a review. The stored listing URL at /old-ai now returns 404, so the live product homepage is arcwise.app.