Reserved capacity
An agreed number of hours each month with a named specialist who knows your files.
Excel experts for hire
Hire Excel experts on an ongoing basis
For teams that need an Excel expert available, not a project each time something breaks.
Abhishek
Abhishek Singh
Akhilesh
Prahalad
Shakti
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A remote team of Excel and spreadsheet specialists. You work directly with the person building your file, from the first question to the final handover. More about us.
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The short version
Why this work usually gets commissioned.
Some companies do not have one Excel project. They have a steady stream of small ones, plus the maintenance of systems already built. A retainer makes sense when the cost of re-explaining your context each time exceeds the cost of keeping someone who already knows it.
Scope
Freelance and ongoing Excel support: what is included.
Every engagement gets an hours estimate before it starts. If something below is not relevant to you, it comes out of the scope and off the estimate.
Maintenance of delivered work
Updates when your source data changes shape, which it will.
Ad-hoc requests
The small fixes and one-off analyses that are not worth scoping as projects.
Knowledge continuity
Documentation kept current, so the retainer is not itself a key-person dependency.
| Mon — Formula broke after a paste | 1.5 hours |
|---|---|
| Wed — Added a column to the pack | 0.5 hours |
| Thu — New starter report | 3 hours |
| Mon — Fixed a chart range | 0.5 hours |
| Thu — Month-end checks | 2 hours |
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Same work, different job titles
What people call this work.
These all describe the same engagement. The title matters less than whether the person writes things down — but it is worth knowing which term to search, because the results differ.
Excel freelancer
The term most people use when they want one person, available when needed, rather than an agency engagement.
Freelance Excel expert
Same arrangement. Worth checking whether 'freelance' means one person with no cover, which matters when they are unavailable.
Excel support service
Ongoing framing: someone who maintains what already exists and picks up small jobs as they arrive.
Part-time Excel developer or on-call spreadsheet help
For teams with steady but small need — a few hours most weeks rather than a project.
Method
How we run it.
- 01
Agree the shape
Monthly hours, response expectations, and what falls in or out of scope.
- 02
Assign a specialist
The same person, so context accumulates instead of resetting.
- 03
Monthly priorities
A short call to agree what matters this month.
- 04
Review quarterly
Adjust the arrangement, or end it. Retainers should be easy to leave.
- DiscoveryUnderstanding the decision the file supports, and who edits it.
- PrototypeA working version on your real data, while changing course is still cheap.
- BuildThe main work, against definitions agreed in writing first.
- TestingEdge cases, checks that fail loudly, and the numbers reconciled.
- HandoverDocumentation, update procedure and a recorded walkthrough.
| Discovery | 15% of hours | Understanding the decision the file supports, and who edits it. |
|---|---|---|
| Prototype | 20% of hours | A working version on your real data, while changing course is still cheap. |
| Build | 40% of hours | The main work, against definitions agreed in writing first. |
| Testing | 15% of hours | Edge cases, checks that fail loudly, and the numbers reconciled. |
| Handover | 10% of hours | Documentation, update procedure and a recorded walkthrough. |
Questions
Ongoing support, answered.
What clients ask before commissioning this work.
Ask us something elseWhat is the minimum commitment?
We work in monthly blocks with a short notice period, and prepaid hour blocks are refundable pro rata. Long lock-ins mostly protect the supplier, and we would rather be kept because the work is useful.
Do unused hours roll over?
Within a quarter, yes, up to an agreed cap. We would rather you use the capacity than pay for nothing.
Is a retainer better than per-project?
Only if you have recurring need. If you have one project, hire us for one project — we will say so rather than pushing a retainer you do not need.
Who do we contact?
A named specialist, with a documented backup so an absence does not stall you.
Often combined with
Related services.
Most engagements touch more than one of these. We scope them together rather than selling them separately.
Start with the problem
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