Platform Evolution: Excel formula generator transforms into an autonomous Agentic AI chat workspace after 300,000 users demand complete task execution
Ajelix today announced the launch of its completely rebuilt platform as an Agentic AI Chat, marking a fundamental shift from spreadsheet assistance to autonomous business workflow execution. The transformation addresses what the company calls “the AI implementation gap,” the hours professionals spend manually building what conversational AI merely describes.
Unlike general chatbots that generate instructions and advice, Ajelix’s agentic AI autonomously executes complete workflows from start to finish. Users receive working deliverables, like Excel files with formulas, interactive dashboards, usable apps, responsive landing pages, professional PowerPoint presentations, executable Python and VBA scripts, automated reports, all ready for immediate use and deployment.
“The AI conversation paradigm has a fundamental limitation: it ends at advice,” said Arturs, CTO and Founder of Ajelix. “Business professionals don’t have time to implement 47-step instructions from general chats. They need the analysis completed, the dashboard built, the workflow automated. That’s what agentic AI delivers—autonomous execution, not just intelligent conversation.”
From Spreadsheets to Agentic Workflows
Founded in 2022 as an Excel formula generator, Ajelix served a focused need: helping users write complex spreadsheet formulas through AI assistance. Over two years and 300,000+ users, a clear pattern emerged in user feedback.
“Users consistently asked: ‘Can you build the entire report, not just the formula?’ ‘Can you create the dashboard, not just explain how?’ ‘Can you automate this workflow, not just write the code?'” said Agnese, COO & Founder of Ajelix. “After the ten-thousandth request, we realized we weren’t building the right product. We were building a component when users needed a complete solution.”
The company made the strategic decision to completely rebuild its technology from the ground up, evolving from a spreadsheet-focused tool to a comprehensive agentic AI platform capable of autonomous workflow execution across business contexts.
“This isn’t an Excel tool anymore,” Arturs emphasized. “Ajelix is now a complete AI workspace for business execution. Excel just happens to be one of many output formats we generate autonomously.”
How Agentic AI Differs From Conversational AI
Traditional conversational AI operates in a question-and-answer paradigm. Users ask questions, AI provides explanations, and users manually implement the guidance. Ajelix’s agentic approach fundamentally changes this workflow:
Conversational AI Process:
Agentic AI Process:
User describes task
User describes desired outcome
AI generates step-by-step instructions
AI autonomously analyzes requirements
User manually implements each step
AI plans execution strategy
User debugs and refines
AI generates and executes necessary code
User produces final deliverable
AI delivers finished, working deliverable
“The difference is profound,” explained Arturs. “Agentic AI doesn’t just think, it acts. It doesn’t just generate code or explain workflow, it executes and completes it.”
Watch Agnese explain how the platform works in this 10-minute video:
The Technology Behind Autonomous Execution
Ajelix’s agentic platform is built on several technical innovations that enable autonomous task completion:
Multi-Model architecture: The system intelligently routes tasks to the most suitable AI models. The platform offers the most advanced and largest LLM models available, so non-technical users can access and implement them.
Integrated code execution environment: Unlike conversational AI that only generates code, Ajelix executes Python, VBA, and other scripts in a secure sandbox environment, testing and validating outputs before delivery.
Persistent workspace: The platform maintains stateful memory across sessions, storing user data, context, templates, files, and workflows.
Thinking mode: For complex workflows, the AI transparently shows its reasoning process, breaking down tasks, planning execution steps, and explaining decisions as it autonomously completes the work.
Multi-Source data integration: The workspace supports 1GB+ file uploads and connects to live data sources, enabling enterprise-scale autonomous processing.
“We’re not using AI to chat about work, we’re using AI to complete work,” said Agnese. “Every technical decision was made to enable autonomous execution, not just intelligent conversation.”
Real-World Applications Beyond Spreadsheets
While Ajelix originated in Excel assistance, the agentic platform now serves diverse business workflows:
Finance & Accounting: Autonomous generation of month-end reports with variance analysis, forecasting models, and executive summaries, delivered as working Excel files or generated into Google Sheets with all formulas, formatting, and charts complete.
Operations & Logistics: Inventory tracking dashboards that update automatically, vendor performance reports with embedded analytics, supply chain optimization models that execute autonomously.
Marketing & Sales: Campaign performance analysis with automated insights, pipeline tracking dashboards, customer segmentation models that generate actionable reports without manual data manipulation. More about agentic marketing.
Business Intelligence: Interactive dashboards built from uploaded data, automated KPI tracking, scheduled report generation that runs autonomously on fresh data.
“One user told us: ‘The monthly report that used to consume three days now completes while I’m in my morning meeting,'” said Agnese. “That’s the power of autonomous execution, AI working while you focus on strategy.”
Competing With Giants as a Bootstrapped Platform
Ajelix’s transformation was achieved without venture capital funding, representing a bootstrapped team’s response to authentic user needs rather than investor-driven feature expansion.
“We compete with billion-dollar AI companies not through marketing spend, but through a fundamentally different approach,” said Agnese. “The biggest chatbots optimize for traction. We optimize for task completion. Those are different problems requiring different architectures.”
The platform now serves 300,000+ professionals across 150+ countries, with users ranging from solo entrepreneurs to teams at Fortune 500 companies, all seeking AI that executes autonomously rather than merely advising.
“Being bootstrapped forced us to listen obsessively to users,” Arturs noted. “Every feature exists because users explicitly requested it. Every technical decision was validated against real workflow needs. We couldn’t afford to build the wrong thing.”
The Future of Agentic AI
Ajelix positions the launch as part of a broader industry shift from conversational AI to agentic AI, systems that act autonomously to achieve user-defined goals rather than simply responding to prompts.
“Conversation is useful. Execution is valuable,” said Arturs. “The next evolution of AI isn’t better answers, it’s autonomous completion. We’re building that future.”
The platform is available immediately at ajelix.com with a free tier allowing users to experience agentic task execution. Higher tiers offer the most advanced models, higher usage, and bigger processing capabilities, larger file handling, and team collaboration features.
About Ajelix
Ajelix is an Agentic AI chat that autonomously executes business workflows, generating working deliverables including Excel files, dashboards, landing pages, presentations, apps, scripts, and automated reports. Founded as an Excel AI tool, Ajelix evolved into a complete autonomous execution platform after 300,000+ users consistently requested AI that completes tasks rather than explains them. The bootstrapped platform maintains persistent workspace context, intelligently routes tasks to optimal AI models, and executes code autonomously to deliver production-ready outputs. Based in Latvia, Ajelix serves professionals across 150+ countries who need results they can act on immediately, not instructions to implement manually.
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