Excel is civilisation’s engine. This isn’t hyperbole. Governments run national budgets on Excel. Hospitals track patient data in Excel. Banks model risk in Excel. Small businesses manage everything from inventory to invoicing in Excel. Supply chains, school timetables, scientific research, election logistics – the modern world is held together by spreadsheets, often in ways people don’t realise. Billions of people, building billions of things, every single day.
But for all its power, Excel has blind spots. Sharing is painful – messy attachments, exposed formulas, data in the wrong hands, version chaos. Publishing is worse – if you want your spreadsheet to become a dashboard, a tool, or a website, the only option has been to rebuild it somewhere else entirely. PowerBI, Tableau, custom code. And as the things people build in Excel have grown more sophisticated, these limitations have become harder to ignore.
Webler gives Excel the capabilities it’s always been missing: easy sharing, the power to build real websites, and the tools to turn spreadsheets into serious, yet flexible, infrastructure. People are already using it in ways we didn’t anticipate; financial models, interactive tools, data journalism, team databases, pixel art, D&D session support. When you remove the friction between building and sharing, extraordinary things happen.
In the near term, we’re making Webler the definitive Excel-to-web platform: deeper formula support, richer styling, real-time collaboration, and the tools to build serious database infrastructure with no code. We’re also building a Webler Excel add-in, so you can publish directly from the ribbon without leaving your spreadsheet.
Beyond that, we’re extending Webler to PowerPoint and Word – because the gap between building and sharing shouldn’t exist for any format. Imagine one-click publishing for presentations, documents, and spreadsheets, all from the tools people already use.
Longer term, we see Webler as the foundation for something bigger: a marketplace where people can share, sell, and buy the models, tools, and data products they’ve built. The work already exists in millions of spreadsheets around the world. Webler is the infrastructure to unlock it.
We’re building in public, in beta, with the community shaping what comes next. If you have ideas, we’re listening.
Alma Economics is a multidisciplinary team of economists, data scientists, social researchers, web developers, and creatives working on some of the most critical issues facing our society today.
We build technology that makes complex things accessible. Our work spans data science, economic modelling, and software development – and across all of it, we’ve seen the same pattern: people build extraordinary things in spreadsheets, then hit a wall when they need to share them, publish them, or turn them into tools that others can easily use. Webler is our answer to that problem.
