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📰 News10 March 2026·2 min read·

Decide AI targets spreadsheet intelligence, not general-purpose chat

Source: techcabal

African AI startup Decide AI is positioning itself as a specialist spreadsheet tool rather than a broad-purpose AI assistant. Its system runs a preprocessing stage that interprets file structures, identifying sheets, headers, tables, formulas, and dataset relationships. The focused approach distinguishes it from general AI platforms like ChatGPT by targeting a specific productivity pain point.

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