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Why let AI analyze my data instead of learning Excel formulas or SQL?

Because the bottleneck stops being syntax and becomes asking good questions. Modern AI tools write and run real code on your files, so a founder can get in seconds what used to take weeks of formula and query practice. You still want enough data literacy to sanity-check what comes back, but you no longer need to master VLOOKUP or JOINs before getting real answers from your own numbers.

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