As artificial intelligence continues to reshape how businesses manage data, a Nigerian-founded startup is positioning itself at the forefront of a fast-growing niche: transforming spreadsheets into AI-powered business tools.
Decide AI, an applied AI lab founded by Abiodun Adetona, has developed intelligent agents that automate spreadsheet analysis, reporting, data cleaning, financial modeling, and business research using natural language.
The platform works directly within Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, enabling users to perform complex data tasks simply by typing instructions in plain English.
For many businesses across Africa, spreadsheets remain the backbone of operations. Finance teams use them to prepare reports, lenders rely on them to assess risk, and startups depend on them to track growth. Yet managing large datasets manually is often slow, error-prone, and resource-intensive.
Decide AI is designed to address that challenge by allowing professionals to automate time-consuming tasks without requiring advanced technical skills.
The company recently recorded an 82.5% score on SpreadsheetBench, a global benchmark used to evaluate spreadsheet reasoning systems from leading AI companies such as OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic.
The result places Decide AI among a select group of companies building high-performing AI systems for spreadsheet workflows.
Its technology has already been used by professionals and teams connected to organizations including Bank of America, KPMG, OPay, and Renmoney.
Before founding Decide AI, Adetona spent more than four years at Flutterwave, where he worked on backend infrastructure and checkout systems that supported payment operations across multiple markets.
His transition from fintech infrastructure to artificial intelligence reflects a broader trend of African engineers building globally competitive products from experience gained in some of the continent’s leading technology companies.
As demand grows for AI tools that deliver practical business value rather than experimental use cases, Decide AI is focusing on one of the world’s most widely used productivity tools: the spreadsheet.
For African businesses looking to improve efficiency, reduce manual errors, and unlock deeper insights from their data, startups like Decide AI demonstrate that globally relevant AI innovation is increasingly being built by founders from the continent.
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