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DeepCell
Your deadline survival kit for office work
635 followers
Your deadline survival kit for office work
635 followers
Deepcell can help you with deadline tasks that require narrations, calculation and presentation at the same time, such as modeling, sales review, budget forecast and monthly report. DeepCell (both web app and agent plug-in) can create ready-to-use docs, spreadsheets, and slides—with sources and cheat sheets to help you explain. Furthermore, every edit can update related parts. The product is built on a newly designed document format (.deepcell), which is especially designed for system two tasks.
Hi everyone!
Hope you enjoy our short sitcom video!
I’m Mengqi, the builder of DeepCell.
I spent endless hours buried in spreadsheets, slide decks, and status reports from my 10 years of corporate life. Every time a forecast assumption changed, we’d spend half the day updating numbers across multiple disconnected files—hoping no formulas broke along the way.
We built DeepCell to fix this at the root. Instead of fragmenting work across separate files, a single .deepcell file holds your data models, narrative memos, and presentation slides, natively connected.
Additional to deadline survival from end user perspective, using .deepcell is also bringing benefits beyond existing office standards.
Self-Describing Numbers and Traceable Logics
In-built meaning of numbers instead of cell coordinates. Every number knows what it is, when it applies, whether it's fact or forecast, and which scenario it belongs to. People get formulas they can read; agents focus on the logic without distraction by coordinates.
Exchange Protocol of System Two Tasks
File itself can be picked up by anyone and any agent at any time. Along with editing experience and embedded version control in DeepCell Studio, .deepcell could be converted native/editable .xlsx, .docx, .pptx anytime for stakeholders who live strictly in Office. During Agent run, AI knows what you are editing and just edited then could react real-time.
We built this for finance, strategy, FP&A, product teams and anyone whose work turns raw numbers into high-stakes decisions.
Would love to hear your feedback, answer any questions, or to hear about your daily workflow pain points—what feature or integration would help DeepCell solve them best for you?
@mengqi_jin how well does deepcell handle complex client reports when an agency needs calculations and presentations at the same time?
@shivam_kushwaha16 That’s a great question! We have attached our actual work on our demo, which is a complicated valuation model of Nvidia with hundreds of related assumptions and deck details. Can feel free to have a try!
Attached is our demo: https://deepcell.net/demo?panel=spreadsheet&sheetId=summary
@xwang146 thankx Amy having a real valuation model with all the assumption and calculations makes it much easier to understand how DeepCell works in practice
@shivam_kushwaha16 No problem!! Let me know if you have any other questions when you're trying our product :)
@shivam_kushwaha16 actually very good use cases, using DeepCell, presentation inbuilt with linked numbers, assumptions and calculation could help show different scenarios for quick analysis of pricing and outcomes within quick changing user demands
Looks very helpful for the monthly investor updates and more - does it incorporate your internal design systems?
@hayden_munt1 Good question! You can incorporate our DeepCell plug-in in your own agents now, and the local terminal is also in our product roadmap, then all data will be saved in your local space^^
@hayden_munt1 Currently if you give DeepCell an existing deck as a template it builds the new one in the same layout, colors and type, with every number linked to your model. For now the logos and images aren't carried over yet, we'll see if we can include those too in the future. Feel free to have a try when you have time!
Congrats on the launch! How out-of-the-box it is?
@denis_prodan
hey Denis, we make it really convenient for user: 1. can generate the files by direct prompts; 2. can convert your existing works into the kits (.deepcell files). Both features can be achieved through the web app or agent plug-in ^^
We have a demo for your reference: https://deepcell.net/demo Within the demo you can directly change the numbers/assumptions and export the .deepcell file into different documents (ppt/pdf/xlsx/doc)
Feel free to give us more feedback!
@denis_prodan Thank you!! You can easily try it on our website or simply install the DeepCell plugin with one message in the agent that you're usually working with. Sign-up is not required for a quick try.
Congrats on the launch! I've lost count of the times the model said one number and slide 14 still said the old one, so I get why you built this.
For me the best part is that every number shows where it came from. That's also why exporting to PowerPoint feels like a step back. Once it's a .pptx, the numbers are dead again.
Are you thinking about letting people just share a live DeepCell link instead? The boss opens it, comments, and can click a number to see where it came from.
@rafik_mkhitaryan Thank you! Yes definitely! Letting people be able to work together on DeepCell files is on our roadmap from the very beginning. We're already building on this, will be out soon!!
@rafik_mkhitaryan Yes, we will launch it very soon, in the coming weeks^^
Hope you enjoy our sitcom (launching video) !!
Hi all, this is Jack. As the product co-founder, I want to share some stories from the perspective of an ex deadline victim. I used to be the one suffering a lot from deadlines in the funny launching video without DeepCell.
During my four years in PwC, I always got exhausted by endless deadlines with ad-hoc requirements. For example, I was required to make a valuation model and draft investment memo (both in ppt/doc) within few hours to present on the partner meeting next day. So I always worked overtime and went back home at around 1 am.
That experience fuels my motivation when building DeepCell. Mengqi and Amy have similar experiences as well, so we came to the common mission of DeepCell：
That's why our product really focus on features below to help users feel easier under deadline:
Starting from our existing work (such as last monthly report, others' model in reference), not from the scratch
A handy explanation (we call it "cheatsheet") to remind us of the sources and the thinking, also helping us to understand our deliverables in general.
One-click update for related content across deliverables and files, not necessary to update numbers or narrations one by one, or no need to worry about missing any update.
Hope everyone in Product Hunt can enjoy our funny launching video and share with anyone if you think our product can help them go home on time.
Would love to hear more feedbacks!
Hope you enjoy our sitcom (the launching video)!!!
Hi everyone, I'm Amy, co-founder of DeepCell.
Having been a software engineer for years, I’ve watched so many products and features launch, grow, or quietly disappear. One important question is: What actually decides which features survive? Building DeepCell today, the answer becomes clearer than ever: every choice has to trace back to the real value it brings to the people using it.
I've watched my friends and colleagues spend hours on the same job: moving numbers and words between spreadsheets, documents, and slides. Technology has come a very long way, and now there are LLMs to help, yet people are still fighting their files all day. Why?
Because office files were built for human eyes. A spreadsheet, a document, a slide: each is a two-dimensional page, made for a person to look at, understand, and then act on. The links that really matter are scatted and often only live in people’s head. So when you hand these files to an AI, it has to do what a person does: read the screen, guess the connections, and hope it guessed right.
After a lot of digging and trying, we concluded that relying on the old file formats wouldn't help solve the real problem. We had to start from scratch, with a new file format .deepcell and a new protocol that record the logic first underneath the number and words. With that an LLM doesn't have to guess. It can follow it.
That's why DeepCell isn't another AI layer on top of office files. Everything good you'll find in it comes from that one choice underneath. Change a number once, and the spreadsheet, report, slides, and cheat sheet all follow. You can use in our website or install it in the AI agent you already work with. If you need Excel, Word, or PowerPoint format, export to them anytime.
Give it a try, and tell us what you think, about the product or about the story. We'd love to grow DeepCell with you.
Does editing work the same for numbers and for longer text passages?
@carlvert Yes! DeepCell will auto-update the numbers and texts when you make a change, on the other hand you can always edit them by hand if there's a need.
@carlvert yes, we also supports document interface, with numbers link natively to the spreadsheets' number. Feel free to try out the product and would love to hear your feedback!